Archived unit: Cooking and nutrition: A 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
Archived unit: Cooking and nutrition: Fruit and vegetables
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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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Unit resources
Assessment D&T Y2: A balanced diet
Assessment D&T Y2: A balanced diet
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‘Pupils should be taught to:
- compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =’
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Archived unit: Cooking and nutrition: Eating seasonally
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