This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 7-11 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 healthy eating; key fact one-Around the world people choose and combine different foods to make meals and snacks. The total amount and range of foods eaten is called the diet.

This section provides information to help teach about diet and lifestyle factors.

To understand that all food and drink provide nutrients.

A worksheet looking at front of pack nutrition labeling.

A worksheet about naming different types of kitchen equipment.

A worksheet exploring how to keep safe in the kitchen.

A quiz looking at the Harvest festival.

A presentation investigating the science of bread making.

A presentation looking at seasonality of different foods.

A worksheet to identify the different parts of a potato plant.

A presentation on sugar.

This section provides information to help teach about different aspects of food spoilage, food preservation, food hygiene and safety.

Investigate the energy needs of different people. Ask children to write down the reasons why different people might use different amounts of energy. Prompts include: age, job and health.

A Knowledge organiser providing key facts around where food comes from.

A presentation looking at peas - from field to fork.

This section provides information to help teach about diet and lifestyle factors.

A sample permission letter is provided. This can be modified and sent to parents/carers, if you decide to run an after school cookery club.

A worksheet about kitchen equipment and cooking skills.

Includes A4 cards. Follow the link for lesson plans and resources.

In this story, Alisha helps Ronnie put together a colourful fruit and vegetable basket for his Grandma’s birthday. Includes worksheet for the children to draw a fruit/vegetable to match a rainbow colour.