Please note
This unit includes new lessons with teacher and pupil videos to help the children learn about the importance of a balanced diet and use that knowledge to create a tasty wrap. The Archived unit: Cooking and nutrition: A balanced diet will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Name the main food groups and identify foods that belong to each group.
- Describe the taste, feel and smell of a given food.
- Think of three different wrap ideas, considering flavour combinations.
- Construct a wrap that meets the design brief and their plan.
For lesson 6, it is suggested that wrap construction takes place outside the lesson throughout the day with an additional adult who works with children to prepare their foods and construct the wraps.
Suggested prior learning
*New* Cooking and nutrition: Smoothies
This assumes that you are following Kapow Primary’s D&T Long-term plan – standard.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Food groups
Lesson 2: Balanced meals
Lesson 3: Preparing ingredients
Lesson 4: Taste testing ingredients
Lesson 5: Planning recipes
Lesson 6: Creating and evaluating wraps
Key skills
- Chopping foods safely to
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That ‘diet’ means
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Key vocabulary
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T: Y2 Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
A visual summary document to support pupils' learning in the Y2 Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet unit.
Vocabulary display: Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
RSE: Healthy eating. What constitutes a healthy diet. The principles of planning and preparing a range of healthy meals.
Science: Animals including humans. Describe eating the right amounts of different types of food.
Build on the learning
*New* Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
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