A teacher’s guide to a lesson on gelatinisation.

A poster about the cereal farm and farmer.

A presentation around egg production in the UK.

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.

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.

A Powerpoint and a quiz on how food is grown.

In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls.

This session revisits the rubbing in technique, to consolidate learning, and extends to forming and shaping the rubbed-in dough. This additional dimension is a progression from Session 6, as students will need to carefully control the amount of liquid added to the mixture, to prevent it from becoming too dry or sticky, and shape the dough in a uniform manner. As with other sessions, it provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.