Design Technology - Rainbow Salads (Key Stage 1)

Design Brief: Design and make a Rainbow Salad to help children eat healthily.

Sequence of Learning for Teachers
In this unit of work children extend their knowledge of food preparation by designing and making a healthy rainbow salad of five fruits and vegetables. This unit provides an opportunity for children to consolidate their food cutting skills and to extend these skills to include grating and juicing fruit and vegetables. Children begin by taste testing some salads that can be bought in the local supermarket before going on to create their own healthy salad product. They learn the key healthy eating message of eating five portions of fruit and vegetables daily and choosing these from a rainbow of colours. They learn how adding additional ingredients and a dressing can improve the taste of their salads. Having decided upon their salad ingredients they write the recipe which they then use to make their salad. Having evaluated the rainbow salad they made, they complete this project by designing simple packaging and labelling for the product they have created.

This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:

1. Investigate 1: Supermarket Salads
2. Focus Task 1: Carrot Salad
3. Focus Task 2: Designing Salads for Your Friends
4. Design & Make: Designing Salads
5. Design & Make: Making Salads
6. Evaluation: Evaluating salads and designing food labels.

Some activities / sessions can be re-arranged or delivered in different ways in the learning sequence to allow for whole-class teaching and/or small adult-led sessions to take place at the same time.