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Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
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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, texture and smell of a given food.
- Think of four different wrap ideas, considering flavour combinations.
- Construct a wrap that meets the design brief and their plan.
Suggested prior learning
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Hidden sugars in drinks
Lesson 2: Taste testing combinations
Lesson 3: Designing and making a wrap
Lesson 4: Making and evaluating
Key skills
- Designing a healthy wrap
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Key knowledge
- To know that ‘diet’
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Key vocabulary
balanced diet
balance
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Design and technology
Knowledge organiser – D&T Y2: Balanced diet
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit 'Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet.'
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