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Lesson 3: Smoothie ingredients tasting

Tasting a selection of potential fruit and vegetable smoothie ingredients, describing their appearance, smell and taste and deciding which to include in a smoothie.

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Learning objective

To taste and compare fruit and vegetables.

National curriculum

Design and technology

Evaluate

Pupils should be taught to:

Explore and evaluate a range of existing products.

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

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Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Children may need support reading the ingredients – consider providing word banks with pictures. They may also need to rehearse words that describe the appearance, feel, smell and taste before the session.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be pushed to describe the taste combinations in detail. They should also be pushed to consider what they would exclude or include in response to their tasting.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

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Tom Turnham,

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Tom has been a teacher for seven years and, as Head of Upper School at The Belham Primary School, he has a keen interest in young people and good causes. For the past seventeen years he has volunteered with various…

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