Resources
Food for thought challenge
From Practical Action, in this activity students design and make a product using local and/or organic ingredients. They will also gain knowledge and understanding of the design and make process, write a design specification and produce a step-by-step plan for making a product. Further resources are available from...
Food for Thought – The Eat Well Plate
The everyday context of food serves as a vehicle for engaging learners in exploring the mathematical ideas of ratios, percentages, fractions, and pie charts which are useful in their vocational areas. Students are asked to agree the main food groups that might be suitable for a healthy diet and then represent the...
Food for thought: environmental damage
Customers increasingly demand food that has been produced with minimal damage to the environment. In this activity from the Centre for Science Education and the Comino Foundation, students work out how to make a fish and chip shop as environmentally friendly as possible. They then highlight their decisions in an...
Food for thought: food science
Aimed at Key Stages One and Two, the ten activities in this pack relate to food science. They look at the topics of keeping healthy, a balanced diet, digestion, teeth and eating, solids, liquids and gases and irreversible reactions. Designed to demonstrate key ideas and concepts and to spark an interest in science...
Food for thought: food supplies
A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award science course. A text activity on world food supplies introduces a series of experiments on photosynthesis and the role of chlorophyll. Experiments on the effects of nutrient deficiency leads to consideration of the use...
Food Glorious Food
This topic, from the Association for Science Education, explores the cultural aspects of food. The topic allows classes in schools across the world to exchange information about the foods found locally, and the connections between diet and health.
After exchanging their findings and views with students in...
Food hygiene
In this lesson students learn about the 4 Cs of food hygiene: cleaning, cooking, chilling and cross contamination. They consider the importance of personal hygiene and the special care needed when handling and cooking meat as well as the impact of temperature on the multiplication of bacteria.
Food Hygiene (Key Stage Four)
From the Chilled Food Association, this resource helps children to think about hygiene and food microbes. The materials are aimed at STEM ambassadors but are readily adapted for use by teachers in the classroom.
The materials consist of a lesson plan, stimulus materials and suggested activities. In this...
Food Hygiene (Key Stage One)
From the Chilled Food Association, this resource helps children to think about food hygiene and in particular the importance of washing hands. The materials are aimed at STEM ambassadors but are readily adapted for use by teachers in the classroom.
The materials consist of a lesson plan, stimulus materials...
Food Hygiene (Key Stage Three)
From the Chilled Food Association, this resource helps children to think about hygiene and in particular the importance of washing hands. The materials are aimed at STEM ambassadors but are readily adapted for use by teachers in the classroom.
The materials consist of a lesson plan, stimulus materials and...