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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.
Food and Farming - Matching Cards
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Food and Farming - Matching Cards

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The children can then match different foods to their animal sources. Alternatively, these can be left unlaminated and the children can cut out, match and glue a selection of these pictures into their work books.
Dairy farming
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Dairy farming

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Understanding where our food comes from, and how it is produced, helps individuals make more informed choices about their diet. To support this aim, we have developed a set of case studies focusing on dairy farming, covering: animal health and welfare; the environment and sustainability; diversity of farming systems; the production of milk and other dairy products.
The farm visit- missing words
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The farm visit- missing words

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In this story Mr Valdez takes the class on a dairy farm visit. They meet Mrs Jenkins, the farmer, and learn about how milk is produced. Includes a worksheet where the children choose the missing word to complete the sentence.
Cooking - Get ready to cook Worksheet
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Cooking - Get ready to cook Worksheet

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Ask the children to create their own ‘Get ready to cook checklist’. This should indicate all the personal hygiene checks they will take when cooking. Ensure that children use this checklist when they undertake food preparation and cooking activities at school.
The bread stories- changing a recipe
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The bread stories- changing a recipe

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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 to aid children in changing a recipe to make a larger/smaller amount.