A Knowledge organiser providing key information around energy and activity.

A worksheet looking at making a sandwich.

A factsheet on wheat.

A quiz to support learning about food in space.

The aim of this session is to help children understand that breakfast is an important meal that should be eaten everyday and include food and a drink. The main activity, ‘Have a go’, involves preparing a healthy breakfast smoothie where children will learn about getting ready to cook, the ingredients, food preparation skills and how to make a smoothie.

This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 5-7 years. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘that food is a basic requirement of life and we need food to grow, be active and maintain health.

A Powerpoint and a quiz on how food is grown.

In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls.

In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls. Includes worksheet for making a poster to explain what to do when preparing to cook.

This session revisits the rubbing in technique, to consolidate learning, and extends to forming and shaping the rubbed-in dough. This additional dimension is a progression from Session 6, as students will need to carefully control the amount of liquid added to the mixture, to prevent it from becoming too dry or sticky, and shape the dough in a uniform manner. As with other sessions, it provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.

This section provides information to help teach about food processing.

This session is about cooking with rice to make a delicious meal or side dish. As with other sessions, students will revisit many skills and techniques, therefore making them more confident cooks. Linking to the theme of this block of sessions, it is the Idea of students making dishes at school that they can easily make at home now, and in the future. It also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.

This session is about creating a deli-style salad using a range of different ingredients. Students will be presented with the opportunity to cook a range of starchy foods, while simultaneously preparing other ingredients for their salad. This will test their organisational skills in the kitchen. It also challenges students to assemble and present their salad attractively. The session revisits and embeds essential knife skills which were introduced throughout sessions 1-5. It also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability.

This provides an overview of digestion in the human body.

Talk about watering and demonstrate how to do it with care. Set up a care rota to show who will water the plants. You can use the Plant watering sheet to keep a record.

This story is about the Food investigators welcomed students from China to their school and explored Chinese cuisine and cheese-making. Includes a worksheet for writing instructions for how to make cheese.

Show the Plants PowerPoint and talk about what the foods look like when they are growing.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket. Includes Maths worksheet.

Worksheet for children to categorise food from plants or animals.

Pasteurisation, sterilisation and irradiation powerpoint.