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Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.

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Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.
License to Cook - Session 5: Batch bake
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License to Cook - Session 5: Batch bake

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This is the final session in this block, i.e. sessions 1 – 5. By this stage students should be familiar with the cooking area, equipment use and storage and general rules. During this session, students consolidate their safe use of the oven, as well as making an all-in-one mixture and dividing it equally. You may wish to observe students practical work using the observation sheet. The result of this observation, along with their previous practical work, goes towards their ‘licence to cook’.
License to Cook - Session 13: Celebration
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License to Cook - Session 13: Celebration

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This session is about students using the creaming method to make a simple cake. It provides the opportunity to use a hand-held electric mixer, although you may wish the students to make this mixture using a wooden spoon. Weighing and measuring are important aspects of this session, as quantities need to be precise in order for the cake to have a good finish. As with other sessions, it also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.
License to Cook - Session 11: Back to basics
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License to Cook - Session 11: Back to basics

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This session welcomes students back to the cooking area after their second module, i.e. sessions 6 - 10. By now, students should be becoming more confident and competent cooks. They should know the cooking area well, use equipment safely and wisely, and be able to prepare a range of ingredients and dishes independently. This session is about learning how to make a classic tomato ragu (sauce), which can then be used in many different ways in the future. It revises how to chop an onion.
License to Cook - Session 8: Deli-salads
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License to Cook - Session 8: Deli-salads

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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.
License to Cook - Session 16: Meal appeal
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License to Cook - Session 16: Meal appeal

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This is the final session in this module, i.e. sessions 11 – 16, and of the Licence to Cook course. By now, students should be confident and competent in preparing and cooking a range of different dishes, plus have the skills and knowledge to adapt these for the future. During this session, students consolidate this understanding by preparing and cooking a main meal dish. You may wish to observe students’ practical work using the practical observation sheet.
Production and processing: Dairy farming
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Production and processing: Dairy farming

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Created for 11-16 year olds, this set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of exciting lessons with a focus on dairy farming, the environment and sustainability. This section provides you with a teachers guide, PowerPoint presentations, links to video clips, online tutorials and more downloadable resources. These new secondary resources have been developed by the ‘British Nutrition Foundation’ and supported by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s (AHDB) dairy sector organisation - DairyCo
Plant Watering - Worksheet
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Plant Watering - Worksheet

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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.
The exciting guests
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The exciting guests

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This story is about the Food investigators welcomed students from China to their school and explored Chinese cuisine and cheese-making.
The exciting guests- calcium countdown
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The exciting guests- calcium countdown

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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 working out how much calcium is in certain foods.