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Food - a fact of life

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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.
Food and Farming - Matching Cards
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Food and Farming - Matching Cards

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The children can then match different foods to their animal sources. Alternatively, these can be left unlaminated and the children can cut out, match and glue a selection of these pictures into their work books.
Cooking - Planning to cook
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Cooking - Planning to cook

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Created for 7-11 year olds, this set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets, notebook documents and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Cooking: Key fact 3 - When planning to cook, we need to select the most suitable ingredients, equipment and food skills for successful results’.
Season Cards
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Season Cards

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A set of A4 cards showing what foods grow in each season. Follow the link for lesson plans and resources.
Measuring
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Measuring

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Eight different types of fish for children to practice accurate measuring in millimetres.
Testing Foods for Starch
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Testing Foods for Starch

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This is a simple test which shows whether food contains starch. When iodine solution is mixed with starch it turns from brown to dark blue. As this happens with very small amounts of starch, iodine test is a sensitive one.