Food – a fact of life has a wide variety of free resources for both primary and secondary science education. We have collated our top five primary and secondary resources for you.
Primary Science
Here's our top 5 resources:
1. Healthy eating - lesson ideas, worksheets, PowerPoint presentations and interactive games. Learn about healthy eating through our progressive range of teaching materials, including interactive games. Click here for ages 5-8 years or click here for ages 8-11 years.
2. Where food comes from - lesson ideas, worksheets, recipes and interactive games. Find out about food and farming through six exciting stories. Resources include interactive Whiteboard (IWB) activities, videos and worksheets. Click here for ages 5-8 years or click here for ages 8-11 years.
3. Plants - Explore the different parts of plants we eat. Resources include colourful food cards, a PowerPoint presentation and IWB activities. Click here to view a range of videos.
4. Materials - Investigate how food changes when it is prepared and cooked by trying our delicious recipes, e.g. bread. Click here to see our recipes.
5. Micro-organisms - Discover all about microorganisms, as well as safe and hygienic food preparation practices.
Click here for ages 5-8 years or click here for ages 8-11 years. Click here for a great video about micro-organisms.
Secondary Science
Here's our top 5 resources:
1. Nutrition, diet and health - Explore aspects of nutrition and the importance of diet and health through differentiated resources.
2. Digestion and absorption - Learn about the digestion process through differentiated PowerPoint presentations and note sheets. Click here for worksheets and presentations, click here for a video introducing digestion, or click here for a video providing more in-depth information.
3. Food experiments - Investigate the properties of food using Experiment sheets. Each Sheet has an introduction clear instructions and safety symbols to guide the user. Click here for 12 food experiment sheets.
4. mywellbeing - Challenge young people to find out more about their diet and physical activity by using this online tool. Click here to launch mywellbeing.
5. Videos and eSeminars - Explore a vast range of food and nutrition topics via the video podcast series and online eSeminars, all delivered by a range of experts. Click here for our list of free video podcasts or click here for our eSeminar programme and recordings.
4. mywellbeing - Challenge young people to find out more about their diet and physical activity by using this online tool. Click here to launch mywellbeing.
5. Videos and eSeminars –Explore a vast range of food and nutrition topics via the video podcast series and online eSeminars, all delivered by a range of experts. Click here for our list of free video podcasts or click here for our eSeminar programme and recordings.
