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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.
License to Cook - Session 14: Rice
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License to Cook - Session 14: Rice

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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.
Production and processing: Dairy farming
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Production and processing: Dairy farming

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Created for 11-16 year olds, this set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of exciting lessons with a focus on dairy farming, the environment and sustainability. This section provides you with a teachers guide, PowerPoint presentations, links to video clips, online tutorials and more downloadable resources. These new secondary resources have been developed by the ‘British Nutrition Foundation’ and supported by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s (AHDB) dairy sector organisation - DairyCo
Plant Watering - Worksheet
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Plant Watering - Worksheet

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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.
Healthy eating - Staying active
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Healthy eating - Staying active

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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 flashcards and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Eating healthily - To be active and healthy, food is needed to provide energy for the body’.
Pleasing Pasta Session
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Pleasing Pasta Session

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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.
Pleasing Pasta Session
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Pleasing Pasta Session

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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.