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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.
Cooking - Food Labels PowerPoint
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Cooking - Food Labels PowerPoint

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Explain to children that food packaging often displays nutrition information which can help people make choices. Use the Food labels PowerPoint to highlight how this information is presented and how it can be used.
Cooking - Planning to cook
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Cooking - Planning to cook

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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, notebook documents and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Cooking: Key fact 3 - When planning to cook, we need to select the most suitable ingredients, equipment and food skills for successful results’.
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’.
Healthy eating - Food is a basic requirement of life
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Healthy eating - Food is a basic requirement of life

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This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 5-7 years. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘that food is a basic requirement of life and we need food to grow, be active and maintain health.
Cooking - Food skills
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Cooking - Food skills

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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 ‘Cooking: key fact 4 - There is a range of additional food skills which enable us to cook.’
Super Smoothie Session
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Super Smoothie Session

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The aim of this session is to help children understand that breakfast is an important meal that should be eaten everyday and include food and a drink. The main activity, ‘Have a go’, involves preparing a healthy breakfast smoothie where children will learn about getting ready to cook, the ingredients, food preparation skills and how to make a smoothie.
The exciting guests- calcium countdown
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The exciting guests- calcium countdown

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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 working out how much calcium is in certain foods.