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Unit Overview: Cooking and nutrition: healthy and varied diets

Lessons:

10 lessons

What's in a packed lunch?

In this lesson, we will explore what makes a healthy lunch, what kinds of ingredients could be used and why they may have been chosen. We will also look at a lunchbox and consider where the ingredients have come from. Please note this lesson will require some additional equipment, beyond a pen, pencil or paper, to fully participate. Please see the equipment slide near the start of the lesson video and make sure your child is adequately supervised if equipment is required.

  • 22m Video
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Designing for a target market

In this lesson, we will design our own healthy lunch, describing ingredients used, using the correct vocabulary and making sure that it is suitable for our target market. Please note this lesson will require some additional equipment, beyond a pen, pencil or paper, to fully participate. Please see the equipment slide near the start of the lesson video and make sure your child is adequately supervised if equipment is required.

  • 2 Quizzes
  • 15m Video
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Developing design ideas

In this lesson, we will develop our ideas further, considering tools and equipment that we have to make our healthy lunch. We will also order the main stages of making to help us plan for when we make our own healthy lunch. This lesson includes some physical activity and equipment beyond pen, paper or pencil. Please make sure your child is adequately supervised.

  • 2 Quizzes
  • 40m Video
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Using ingredients to create your ideas

In this lesson, we will make our own healthy lunch. We will make sure that we are working safely and hygienically using a range of ingredients. (Please note, the evaluation lesson 6 will need to be completed straight after you have made your healthy lunch so that it can be tested against your design criteria). This lesson includes some physical activity and equipment beyond pen, paper or pencil. Please make sure your child is adequately supervised.

  • 2 Quizzes
  • 30m Video
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Evaluating your product

In this lesson, we will be evaluating and testing our healthy lunch against our design criteria. This will help us to decide how well we have met our brief. We will also gather the opinions of others to help us to develop our work further. Please note this lesson will require some additional equipment, beyond a pen, pencil or paper, to fully participate. Please see the equipment slide near the start of the lesson video and make sure your child is adequately supervised if equipment is required.

  • 2 Quizzes
  • 16m Video
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Using evaluation to develop ideas further

In this lesson, we will use our evaluation and feedback from others and understanding of the eatwell guide to help us to make another healthy lunch using a variety of equipment and ingredients. This lesson includes some physical activity and equipment beyond pen, paper or pencil. Please make sure your child is adequately supervised.

  • 2 Quizzes
  • 19m Video
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Delicious dips

In this lesson, we will use a variety of ingredients to make a healthy dip for vegetables. We will make sure that we are working safely and hygienically whilst doing this. This lesson includes some physical activity and equipment beyond pen, paper or pencil. Please make sure your child is adequately supervised.

  • 2 Quizzes
  • 21m Video
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Marvellous oat bars

In this lesson, we will use a variety of ingredients to make a healthy oat bar. We will make sure that we are working safely and hygienically whilst doing this. We will also explore other ingredients that could be used in our oat bar that could be fresh, pre-cooked or processed. This lesson includes some physical activity and equipment beyond pen, paper or pencil. Please make sure your child is adequately supervised.

  • 2 Quizzes
  • 25m Video
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  • Transcript