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Food and Farming

Teachers' Guide

This is the main guide for Food and farming for children aged 8-11 years.

Key Fact 2

Food is processed on different levels to make it edible and safe.

Cool creations

Non-cook recipes for the primary school classroom.

Hot and happening

Recipes that involve the use of the grill or hob.

Brilliant baking

Baking recipe for the primary classroom.

Where do my meals come from? (8-11 years)

Do you know where the food from your meals comes from?

Farm to fork challenge (8-11 years)

Do you know what happens to your food from the farm to your fork?

Videos: Farming

See how crops and animals are farmed in the UK.

Videos: Cool creations

See how to make some recipes that do not need any cooking.

Where does food come from?

A primary school class look at the topic of where food comes from.

Welcome to the Food and farming module for children aged 8-11 years. This module supports primary school children learning about where their food comes from and how it is farmed through two Key Facts:

Key Fact 1 - Food is produced all around the world;

Key Fact 2 - Food is processed on different levels to make it edible and safe.

This module provides lots of great resources, such as lesson ideas for the busy teacher, pre-prepared worksheets for children, interactive activities, PowerPoint presentations and colour photographs, as well as an exciting suite of farming and recipe videos.

Interactive activities

This module is supported by two exciting ionteractive activties around food and farming. These are:

Videos

This module also features exciting videos which show crops and animals being farmed and recipes being made, these are supported by easy-to-follow recipes and teacher guidance:

Cool creations - videos and recipes
Hot and happening - videos and recipes
Brilliant baking - videos and recipes
Farming - videos
Where does food come from?

Last reviewed: 10/05/2011

Next review date: 01/11/2013