Match the labels to the parts of the body. Follow the link for more resources.

Explain to children that when we handle or cook with food, it is important that we are clean and hygienic. Use this worksheet to test their knowledge.

To be able to recognise a range of basic ingredients.

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A presentation exploring energy balance.

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.

A worksheet about food origins.

A Knowledge organiser providing key facts around food hygiene and safety.

A Knowledge organiser providing key information around food spoilage, contamination and poisoning.

A presentation to support learning about food in Victorian times.

A food diary to support learning about food in Victorian times.

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’.

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

This section provides information to help teach about diet related health issues.

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

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.

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A Knowledge organiser providing key facts around healthy eating and physical activity.

What should you do before you cook?

Get the children to record what they eat throughout the day by drawing the food and noting the times of day.