#TheCompleteSeries6lessons
Lesson plans, slides, worksheets, differentiated activities, challenge cards, recipes and other printables are all included - almost* everything you need to get cooking with your Upper KS2 children!
*Sadly, kitchen, cooking utensils and ingredients are not included. If we could find a way for you to download them, we'd include those, too!
#Lesson1BurgerNutritionFacts
This first lesson focuses on nutrition fact labels on food packaging. Children will learn all about fats, carbohydrates and proteins and how they provide our bodies with energy, measured in calories. They will have the opportunity to analyse nutrition fact labels, read tables and interpret the information from them.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Fact cards
#Lesson2MakingBurgerPatties
In this second lesson, children will explore different burger patties including the different cooking methods for them. The children will prepare, cook and taste three different burger patties, working in groups to prepare turkey, beef and vegetarian burger patties.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated evaluation cards
- Recipes
- Ingredients list
- Cooking Safely' poster
- Cooking techniques cards
- Challenge cards
#Lesson3ExploringBurgerSauces
Learn all about matching flavours in sauces and burger patties by making and tasting three different sauces. Challenge children to think about flavour combinations by matching sauces with burger recipes according to their tastes.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Recipes
- Writing frames
- Ingredients lists
- Menu templates
#Lesson4ExploringBurgerBuns
This lesson focuses on the different types of bread that burger buns are made of, considering the importance of the shape and size of buns as well as how they can be flavoured with herbs and spices.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Challenge questions
- Ingredients lists
#Lesson5DesignaBurger
In this lesson, children have the opportunity apply their previous learning about burgers by designing their own burger. Children can be as creative as they like with flavours and ingredients to make their ultimate burger.
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated planning sheets
- Recipes
- Challenge cards
#Lesson6MakeandEvaluateBurgers
In this final lesson, children can make and evaluate the burger recipes they planned in the previous lesson - there are opportunities for them to make and rate each other's creations, too!
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Recipes
- Cooking challenges
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Curriculum Objectives covered
- KS2 - use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups
- KS2 - generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design
- KS2 - select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately
- KS2 - evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work
- KS2 - understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
- KS2 - prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
