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This unit includes new lessons with teacher and pupil videos to help the children develop their food preparation skills while learning about seasonal foods and creating a seasonal food tart. The Archived unit: Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain that fruits and vegetables grow in different countries based on their climates.
- Understand that seasonal fruits and vegetables grow in a given season.
- Understand that eating seasonal fruit and vegetables positively affects the environment.
- Design a tart recipe using seasonal ingredients.
For lesson 6, it is suggested that tart preparation takes place outside the lesson throughout the day with an additional adult who works with children to prepare their foods and bake the tarts.
Suggested prior learning
*New* Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Food around the world
Lesson 2: Seasonal food
Lesson 3: Cutting and peeling
Lesson 4: Tasting seasonal ingredients
Lesson 5: Making a mock-up
Lesson 6: Evaluating seasonal tarts
Key skills
- Describing how climate affects
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That seasonal means
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Key vocabulary
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T: Y3 Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
A visual summary document to support pupils' learning in the Y3 Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally unit.
Vocabulary display: Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography
Human and physical geography – climate zones.
Build on the learning
*New* Cooking and nutrition: Adapting a recipe
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