Burgers DT
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This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.
Each of the lessons within the pack contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
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- An assessment grid to track learning and progress
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Everyone loves a good burger! Bring burgers into your classroom this year with this delicious D.T. scheme of work for Year 5/6 children. These lessons include mouth-watering recipes and challenge ideas that will give your children a chance to practise and improve their cooking skills. Your children will love the burger and sauce recipes - they're easy to follow and simple to remember! Challenge children design, cook, taste and evaluate their own burgers. Can they combine flavours to produce tasty, healthy meals?
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!
Burger Nutrition Facts
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
Making Burger Patties
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
Exploring Burger Sauces
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
Exploring Burger Buns
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
Design a Burger
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
Make and Evaluate Burgers
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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