This section provides information to help teach about food processing.

This session is about cooking with rice to make a delicious meal or side dish. As with other sessions, students will revisit many skills and techniques, therefore making them more confident cooks. Linking to the theme of this block of sessions, it is the Idea of students making dishes at school that they can easily make at home now, and in the future. It also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.

This session is about creating a deli-style salad using a range of different ingredients. Students will be presented with the opportunity to cook a range of starchy foods, while simultaneously preparing other ingredients for their salad. This will test their organisational skills in the kitchen. It also challenges students to assemble and present their salad attractively. The session revisits and embeds essential knife skills which were introduced throughout sessions 1-5. It also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability.

This provides an overview of digestion in the human body.

Talk about watering and demonstrate how to do it with care. Set up a care rota to show who will water the plants. You can use the Plant watering sheet to keep a record.

This story is about the Food investigators welcomed students from China to their school and explored Chinese cuisine and cheese-making. Includes a worksheet for writing instructions for how to make cheese.

Show the Plants PowerPoint and talk about what the foods look like when they are growing.

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

Worksheet for children to categorise food from plants or animals.

Pasteurisation, sterilisation and irradiation powerpoint.

A fact sheet about alcohol. Follow the link for lesson plans.

Follow the link for more recipe ideas.

The aim of this session is to help children understand that there are many different types of pasta. Pasta can be used to make many different types of meals. The main activity ‘Have a go’, involves children creating a cold pasta salad by preparing and mixing the ingredients together.

The aim of this session is to help children understand that there are many different types of pasta. Pasta can be used to make many different types of meals. The main activity ‘Have a go’, involves children creating a cold pasta salad by preparing and mixing the ingredients together.

Display cards and powerpoint presentation to remind children of what we need to do before cooking.

Two different worksheets for tasting activities.

Give children the What’s changed? Cards. The children can cut out, match and stick the foods in their books. They can then write, or cut out and stick the Changing words Cards, to show how the foods have changed between each picture.

A set of cards showing the energy provided by 100g of a range of food.

A worksheet exploring how to use equipment safely.

A tasting scale worksheet.