DT Food and Nutrition - Healthy Snacks - Researching!

This engaging and purposeful series of lessons enables children to gradually develop towards creating healthy snacks. The resources have originally been created to guide children towards creating snacks with a bread/ cracker/ rice cake base, but the resources can easily be adapted to fit your own particular project.

This first lesson helps children to:
-Understand what the terms ‘healthy’ and ‘balanced’ mean;
-Learn about the different food groups, and understand how much of each category is healthy (utilising a clear and concise video - hyperlinked);
-Understand what effect the values of each food type have on the body;
-Research examples of each of the different food types, recording the values on their research template.

Included is an eye-catching and comprehensive 17-slide PowerPoint presentation, and a research template (in both Word and PDF). The hyperlink to the video is included on slide 4.

These lessons were originally created for children in years 3 and 4, but may be adapted for slightly older and younger year groups.