Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
Learning about seasonal foods and using their understanding to create a seasonal food tart.
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Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain that fruits and vegetables grow in different countries based on their climates and identify which grow where.
- Understand that seasonal fruits and vegetables grow in a given season and that eating them in season positively affects the environment.
- Identify which foods grow in which season and find recipes that contain seasonal foods.
- Know that importing food impacts the environment.
- Identify the equipment used to prepare food and explain why food needs to be prepared safely.
- Describe the taste of various fruits and vegetables and identify flavours.
- Design a seasonal dish and describe the ingredients’ nutritional benefits.
- Evaluate the dishes and give and receive feedback to identify strengths.
For lesson 6, it is suggested that tarts are made before the lesson at a time when an additional adult can work with the children to prepare their food and bake the tarts.
Suggested prior learning
Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Food around the world
- To explain why food comes from different places around the world.
Lesson 2: Seasonal food
- To explain the benefits of seasonal foods.
Lesson 3: Cutting and peeling
- To develop cutting and peeling skills.
Lesson 4: Tasting seasonal ingredients
- To evaluate seasonal ingredients.
Lesson 5: Making a mock-up
- To design a mock-up using criteria.
Lesson 6: Evaluating seasonal tarts
- To evaluate a dish.
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
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 – D&T Y3: Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Eating seasonally'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography: Human and physical geography – climate zones.