Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
Discovering the importance of a balanced diet and creating a tasty, balanced wrap to meet a design brief.
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Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
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
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
- To design based on criteria.
Lesson 6: Creating and evaluating wraps
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T Y2: Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet'.
Vocabulary display – D&T Y2: Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Balanced diet'.
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.