Design Technology - Eatwell Pizza (Upper Key Stage 2)

Eatwell Pizza is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 9-11. The unit focuses on designing and making pizza and setting up a small business as a pizza entrepreneur.
Design Brief: Design and make a pizza to promote the healthy eating messages from the Eatwell Guide for Healthy Eating
The package provides the medium-term plan, six lessons (each lesson has a MS Powerpoint presentation). Any additional resources are provided as PDFs or as Powerpoint Presentations. This unit of work fulfils the National Curriculum (England) Design Technology requirements for this age group in the following strands of learning:
• Cooking and Nutrition
In this unit of work:
Children apply their knowledge and understanding about healthy eating to design and make a pizza based on the key messages from the Eatwell Guide for healthy eating. They learn how to make bread dough to be used as the pizza base and prepare a range of vegetables and other foods to create the tomato sauce and pizza toppings. Through this they understand that food products are made by adapting existing recipes. In setting up a small business they learn about creating a company branding, budgeting and the importance of packaging and labelling food products.

This unit of work is part of the Primary Design Technology Scheme of Work for children aged 5-11 being developed on behalf of Carousel Education.