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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 - Food is changed from farm to fork
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Food and farming - Food is changed from farm to fork

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Created for 5-7 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 teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Food and farming - Food is changed from farm to fork’.
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: * PowerPoints * Videos * The Eatwell Challenge game * Worksheets The resources are suitable for 5 - 16 years.
Explore food
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Explore food

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Explore food, a user-friendly online nutritional analysis tool for secondary school students. It allows students to calculate the energy and nutrients provided by a recipe or a diet. It is designed to be easy to use, guiding students through the analysis of a recipe or a day’s diet. Explore food is useful for KS3 and KS4 in food technology, home economics and/or science lessons.
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.
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.
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’.
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’.