Resources

Eating Tutorial 1

This Licence to Cook tutorial is about healthy eating and describes the variety of foods needed for a balanced diet, giving examples of each type. The differentiated slides cover:

• The Eatwell plate
• Examples of food in each of the five food groups
• A balanced diet
• Healthy food choices...

Eating Tutorial 2

This Licence to Cook tutorial provides eight tips for making healthier food choices. The differentiated slides cover:

• Basing meals on starchy foods
• Eating lots of fruit and vegetables
• Eating more fish
• Reducing intake of saturated fat and sugar
• Reducing salt intake
•...

Eating Whatever You Like?

This Teachers TV video shows food adventurer Stefan Gates preparing and eating a salad made with crispy worms, jelly fish and ants. The clip is designed to promote discussion about health and diet.

Stefan makes the...

Eatwell Guide

In this lesson pupils learn about the Eatwell Guide, the different food groups and how to have a varied, healthy and balanced diet.

Pupils also learn about the importance of hydration and choosing drinks that are low in fat and sugar. 

Eatwell Guide *Suitable for Home Learning*

From the British Nutrition Foundation, in partnership with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB...

Ebola

Ebola can spread quickly with devastating consequences. To help fight it scientists are developing drugs and vaccines. In this activity students are asked if they would trial a new Ebola vaccine. They gather information from different sources, weigh up risks and benefits and apply what they know about genes to...

eBook of Forty Risps

This ebook provided by RISPs constitutes a collection of forty open-ended investigative activities for use in the A Level pure mathematics classroom. The book consists of two parts: the first part of the ebook lists all activities indexed by topic together with the teachers' notes. The second part advises on how to...

Echium

From the National Non-Food Crops Centre, this factsheet looks at the use of Echium plantagineum as a crop that produces speciality oils. Echium seeds contain oil, which is high in alpha linolenic acid (ALA), gamma linolenic acid (GLA) and stearidonic acid (SDA). Such characteristics make echium oil a valuable...

Eco Divo

This is card game in which  students can learn about ecosystems and biodiversity and explore the fascinating natural history of organisms in the United Kingdom. The game includes species interactions, human impacts and diversity while students compete or collaborate in building a food web or classify diverse...