Objectives
This is an ideal section to dip in and out of to ensure that your pupils get
the pleasure of the end results of the grain chain. You will need to select what
you have time to cook, and you may have already done some food preparation
during Topic 4 'The Grain Chain'. The recipes are also designed to be simple
enough for children to try at home, and have been graded according to:
- skill level
- preparation time
- whether there is a video showing how to make the recipe.
The objectives are:
- To experience the real-life product of their learning experience
- To be aware of the variety of foodstuffs that use flour
- To understand and practise the need for food hygiene and kitchen safety
when handling food and cooking
- To enjoy food preparation and cooking.
Duration
Whatever you have time for!
LESSON PLANS
There are no lesson plans for this topic – it will depend which recipes you
choose. All the ingredients and equipment needed are listed within each recipe,
and the recipes can be printed out. You may also need facilities to show a video
if your recipe has a supporting video showing how it is made.
Important notes
Refer to Running a cooking
session: guidance for teachers before you start.
Health and safety: Don't forget to cover all the points about kitchen health
and safety and food hygiene before pupils begin working with food. The key
points are given in IP
'Before you start: food and safety'.
Health and safety: If pupils are making recipes in class, you need to be
absolutely sure (depending on the recipe) that no-one in your class has a nut or
gluten allergy, e.g. by writing a letter to parents to ensure that all your
pupils may take part.
Homework or extension ideas
Pupils could talk to parents and carers at home about recipes they would like
to try, and write them out for others to use. The ideas could be made into a
class recipe book.
Extension activities could include planning the content of the class recipe
book by devising appropriate sections to make use of the various food groups, or
by different meals etc.. Pupils could also work out the calorie content of the
various meals in the class recipe book, and/or devise a food labelling system
(e.g. traffic lights) for the various recipes included.
Pupils may also enjoy two fun, warm-up activities, in the school hall (the
first is ideal in a drama lesson, and the second for PE).
Bready, steady, stop!
Pupils run round the hall (in the same direction). They stop and freeze on
the teacher’s whistle and command. 'Freeze positions' are:
- Chocolate muffin: stand still with arms raised in a curved shape above
your head
- Breakfast bagel: find a partner and form a circle shape between you with
your arms
- Hot dog: join together in groups of three, all three standing up
straight forming two pieces of the bun with the hot dog in the middle
- Pitta pocket: find a partner and sit down one in front of the other. The
person behind is the pitta bread and holds their arms out around the other
person who is the filling
- Jam doughnut: freeze with your hand rubbing your tummy, closed eyes and
a big smile on your face (or licking your lips!)
- Sliced loaf: Whole class gets together, everyone standing up straight,
in a long line.
Crackers and crumbs
Explain to pupils that one side of the hall represents the cracker tin and
the other side represents the breadboard (for the crumbs). To begin with, pupils
jog on the spot in a long line running down the centre of the hall (parallel to
the cracker tin and the breadboard).
On command (either 'Crackers' or 'Crumbs'), pupils must run either to the
cracker tin or the breadboard. Once the pupils have run to one side of the hall,
that is their starting position for the next command and so on. This adds great
enjoyment if, for example, they are at the bread board (for crumbs) and you call
out 'crumbs' again. It is also very easy to build up the excitement by simply
calling out: 'Crrrrrrrrrrrrrr…' before you reveal all!
Curriculum relevance
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