*New* Cooking and nutrition: Developing a recipe

Learning a simple bolognese recipe and adapting it to improve nutritional content.

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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

  • To understand how ingredients are reared and processed.
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Lesson 2: Different choices

  • To make adaptations to design a recipe.
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Lesson 3: Nutritional value

  • To evaluate nutritional content.
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Lesson 4: Preparing ingredients

  • To practise food preparation skills.
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Lesson 5: Designing labels

  • To design a product label.
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Lesson 6: Making bolognese

  • To follow and make an adapted recipe.
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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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Assessment – D&T Y5: Cooking and nutrition: Developing a recipe

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Cross-curricular opportunities

Mathematics: Statistics – Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables

Computing: Select, use and combine a variety of software

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