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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 - Food is changed from farm to fork
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Food and farming - Food is changed from farm to fork

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Created for 5-7 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 teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Food and farming - Food is changed from farm to fork’.
Eatwell Guide resources
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Eatwell Guide resources

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This collection of resources has been designed to support teaching about the Eatwell Guide, the UK healthy eating model. Resources include: * PowerPoints * Videos * The Eatwell Challenge game * Worksheets The resources are suitable for 5 - 16 years.
Explore food
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Explore food

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Explore food, a user-friendly online nutritional analysis tool for secondary school students. It allows students to calculate the energy and nutrients provided by a recipe or a diet. It is designed to be easy to use, guiding students through the analysis of a recipe or a day’s diet. Explore food is useful for KS3 and KS4 in food technology, home economics and/or science lessons.
The farm visit- speech marks
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The farm visit- speech marks

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In this story Mr Valdez takes the class on a dairy farm visit. They meet Mrs Jenkins, the farmer, and learn about how milk is produced. Includes a worksheet to practice when to use speech marks.
Tasty toast
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Tasty toast

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The aim of this session is to explore the importance of having something healthy to eat and drink every day for breakfast. The main activity, Have a go, involves selecting and adding a topping to toast. Children will taste different toppings, choose their favourites and prepare their own toast using these. Created for children aged 3-5 years.