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This unit provides new lessons with teacher and pupil videos to develop the children’s food preparation skills. The Archived unit: What could be healthier? will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Describe the process of beef production.
- Research a traditional recipe and make changes to it.
- Add nutritional value to a recipe by selecting ingredients.
- Prepare and cook a version of bolognese sauce.
Lessons 4 and 6 will require an additional adult to support the activities. Lesson 6 will take longer than an hour.
Suggested prior learning
*New* Cooking and nutrition: Adapting a recipe
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Lessons
Lesson 1: From farm to fork
Lesson 2: Different choices
Lesson 3: Nutritional value
Lesson 4: Preparing ingredients
Lesson 5: Designing labels
Lesson 6: Making bolognese
Key skills
- Explaining the farm-to-fork process.
- Researching
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That beef comes
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Key vocabulary
abattoir
adaptation
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T: Y5 Cooking and nutrition: Developing a recipe
A visual summary document to support pupils' learning in the Y5 Cooking and nutrition: Developing a recipe unit.
Vocabulary display: Developing a recipe
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Developing a recipe unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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Computing: Select, use and combine a variety of software
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Archived unit: Cooking and nutrition: Come dine with me
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