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Pasta Salad (Lower Key Stage 2)
Design Brief: Design and make a new salad dish for Samir’s Salad Bar.
Strand of Learning: Cooking and Nutrition
Overview:
For this project children use their knowledge of healthy eating to design and make a pasta salad as a new dish for a salad bar. This unit develops and consolidates children’s food preparation skills and their understanding that some foods need to be cooked before being eaten. Children learn about the Eatwell Guide and its key messages for healthy eating.
For the design and make activity, children learn about seasonality in food and how different fruit and vegetables are grown and harvested at different times of the year and use this knowledge to create a pasta salad containing seasonal food that can be sourced or bought locally.
Product Film
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6 x Lesson Presentation Slides
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Presentation Slides: Nadiya Hussain
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Know Your Fruit and Veg 1
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Know Your Fruit and Veg 2
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Recipe template
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Recipe: Simple Pasta Salad
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Pasta Salad Taste Test
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Medium Term Planning includes:
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6 x lesson overviews
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Vocabulary List
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Knowledge Organiser
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Learning statements linked to Curriculum
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Support and Challenge
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Assessment - Keeping up with the curriculum
Teaching Pack
Curriculum Scope and Sequence
Substantive & Technical Knowledge
Children will know:
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The difference between a design brief and design specifications.
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Design specifications describe how a product should be made, how it works or what it should do.
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There can be a range of people and places that can be clients for a product.
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Rules and procedures for keeping themselves safe when making products.
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That a list of the main stages of turning a design into a product will aid the making process.
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That evaluating the whole project is an important part of design technology.
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About a range of inspirational designs and designers throughout history and use this knowledge to support their own work as designers.
Cooking and Nutrition
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Different foods are grown around the world and that some food is dependent on the seasons.
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The principles of a healthy and varied diet, particularly the importance of fruit and vegetables.
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The importance of food preparation routines that are safe and hygienic.
Practical Knowledge (skills)
Children will know how to:
Designing Skills
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Generate ideas for a product, considering its purpose and who the client is.
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Use design specifications as a guide to the making process.
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Follow instructions to ensure that they work safely.
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Select suitable tools, equipment, materials, and components for the task.
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Measure, mark out, cut and shape materials with increasing accuracy.
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Evaluate a product against specific design specifications.
Cooking and Nutrition
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Prepare food in a safe and hygienic way using appropriate utensils.
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Create a healthy recipe considering the taste, texture, smell, and appearance of the dish.
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Create visually appealing products by shaping and moulding food.
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Measure ingredients accurately
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Follow a recipe to assemble or cook ingredients.
Food Preparation Skills:
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Use a table knife to cut equal dough portions.
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Fold ingredients together carefully
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Use measuring jugs, spoons, and scales to measure ingredients with increasing accuracy.
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Use a range of food preparation techniques when following recipes.