Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Describe features of biscuits using taste, texture and appearance.
- Explain why some biscuits might be made for children, adults or special occasions.
- Remember and follow simple rules for working in a safe and clean way.
- Follow a recipe with support.
- Use a budget to plan a recipe.
- Adapt a recipe using additional ingredients to fit a design or budget.
- Measure and mix ingredients properly.
- Contribute to a discussion about criteria for evaluation.
For lesson 5, it is important that a participant is invited to the lesson for market research for each group.
Suggested prior learning
Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Existing biscuits
Lesson 2: Basic biscuits
Lesson 3: Budgeting
Lesson 4: Packaging
Lesson 5: Testing a new recipe
Lesson 6: Evaluating biscuits
Key skills
Design
- Designing a biscuit within
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Key knowledge
To know:
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Key vocabulary
adapt
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Six different types of biscuits for taste-testing ×30
- Plates ×30
- Basic biscuit recipe ingredients: butter, caster sugar, egg yolk, vanilla extract, plain flour.
- Additional ingredients: cocoa powder, chocolate chips, porridge oats, honey, mini marshmallows, raisins, desiccated coconut, dried fruit, cinnamon, lemon or orange zest, sprinkles, chocolate, icing.
- Butter knife Use child-safe knives; adult cutting knife for adult use only. ×30
- Bowls
- Wooden spoons ×8
- Weighing scales ×8
- Baking trays
- Baking parchment As needed
- Oven
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Empty biscuit boxes
- A3 card ×30
- Additional adults ×1
The equipment below is optional
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Computers with access to Excel
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T Y4: Cooking and nutrition: Adapting a recipe
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'Cooking and nutrition: Adapting a recipe'.
Vocabulary display – D&T Y4: Cooking and nutrition: Adapting a recipe
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Adapting a recipe'.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics
Number – multiplication and division – solve problems using multiplying and adding
Geometry – properties of shape – make 3D shapes using modelling materials
Measurement – estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence
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Cooking and nutrition: Developing a recipe
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