Design Technology - Healthy Cereal Bar (Lower Key Stage 2)

Healthy Cereal Bars is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 7-9. The unit focuses on children designing and making healthy cereal bars and also understanding the importance of eating breakfast regularly.
Design Brief: Design and Make a Healthy Cereal Snack Bar
The package provides the medium-term plan, six lessons (each lesson has a MS Powerpoint presentation). Any additional resources are provided as PDFs or as Powerpoint Presentations. This unit of work fulfils the National Curriculum (England) Design Technology requirements for this age group in the following strands of learning:
• Cooking and Nutrition
In this unit of work:
Children create their own recipe, branding, and packaging for a cereal bar for a healthy snack. This unit of work also includes learning about the importance of breakfast. Children build on their knowledge of healthy eating and preparing fruit and vegetables to develop their own design for a healthy breakfast cereal bar. As part of their learning they understand the importance of market research and conducting surveys.

This unit of work is part of the Primary Design Technology Scheme of Work for children aged 5-11 being developed on behalf of Carousel Education.