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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.
Measuring
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Measuring

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Eight different types of fish for children to practice accurate measuring in millimetres.
Testing Foods for Starch
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Testing Foods for Starch

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This is a simple test which shows whether food contains starch. When iodine solution is mixed with starch it turns from brown to dark blue. As this happens with very small amounts of starch, iodine test is a sensitive one.
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’.
Eatwell Guide resources
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Eatwell Guide resources

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This collection of resources has been designed to support teaching about the Eatwell Guide, the UK healthy eating model. Resources include: Presentations Videos The Eatwell Challenge game Worksheets The resources are suitable for 5 - 16 years.