This section provides templates of useful words, weights and clocks to encourage vocabulary, weighing and measuring and telling the time.

Use the Occasions PowerPoint to highlight a number of different celebrations and festivals which include specific food, e.g. Passover and Matzo crackers, Christmas and turkey.

This section provides you with detailed teaching plans for Key Fact 3, including links to all the downloadable resources. Includes food cards for children to put into the right food groups.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket. Includes worksheet to record survey information.

A guide to hygiene and safety whilst cooking for children.

To understand that a range of factors determine what is eaten throughout the world. Diets vary between individuals for reasons such as availability, preference, resources, time, culture and religion.

This section provides information to help teach about the functional properties of food.

Food cards for children to sort into where they should be stored. Follow the link for teacher lesson plans and further resources.

This resource is a power point presentation, lesson objectives: To understand the importance of maintaining the health and welfare of dairy cows. To recognise there are differences between farming systems. To be aware of the different initiatives being undertaken by dairy farmers to protect and enhance the environment.

A worksheet for children to plan a healthy lunchbox.

Match the food labels to the pictures of World produce.

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 healthy biscuit recipe for children.

This worksheet involves the students thinking about they types of food that come under the dairy heading.

This section provides information to help teach about food product development.

This section provides information to help teach about food processing.

A guide to support running a food tasting session.

Follow the link for more recipe ideas.

A recipe for naan bread.

Understanding where our food comes from, and how it is produced, helps individuals make more informed choices about their diet. To support this aim, we have developed a set of case studies focusing on dairy farming, covering: animal health and welfare; the environment and sustainability; diversity of farming systems; the production of milk and other dairy products.