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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.
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.
àm bleoghain
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àm bleoghain

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a) Is toigh le crodh a bhith air am bleoghan 2-3 turas san latha. A’ sealltainn ro sreath chleocan, cuin a thathar a’ bleoghan nam bó? b) Tha iomadh dreuchd aig a’ Bh-ph Jenkins air a tuathanas. Cuir na spógan a tha dhÌth air na cleocan.
Where food comes from - Food is processed
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Where food comes from - Food is processed

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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 and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Food and farming: Key fact two - Food is processed on different levels to make it edible and safe’.
The bread stories
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The bread stories

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In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls.
The bread stories- getting ready to cook
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The bread stories- getting ready to cook

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In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls. Includes worksheet for making a poster to explain what to do when preparing to cook.
License to Cook - Session 15: Stir-fry crazy!
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License to Cook - Session 15: Stir-fry crazy!

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This module of sessions aims to build on this confidence and independence, offering students the opportunity to learn new skills and techniques which lead to preparing and cooking a range of main meals. It also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability for the end of this block of sessions. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.
License to Cook - Session 9: Pasta mania
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License to Cook - Session 9: Pasta mania

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This session is about making a savoury sauce and combining it with pasta to make a simple dish. Students start to prepare and cook items simultaneously, learning about timing and kitchen organisation. The session gets the students to use the hob and the grill, as well as other pieces of familiar equipment. If your students have not covered session 7 layered pasta salad, then this session will be more challenging. This session also provides you with the opportunity to assess student practical capability. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.
License to Cook - Session 8: Deli-salads
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License to Cook - Session 8: Deli-salads

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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.