Lesson Five – Pasta Recipe

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to devise and record the instructional recipe for someone to follow to make an Italian themed pasta salad to match the selected design success criteria for the created product.

The class can identify and explain how to prepare some different types of vegetables to use in the created pasta salad to match a specific theme.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to devise and record the instructional recipe for someone to follow to make an Italian themed pasta salad to match the selected design success criteria for the created product

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify, describe and compare different foods that could be used in a recipe for a pasta salad and a template to select and record ingredients and preparation methods that are needed to complete a recipe for a pasta salad.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to create and record the recipe for a pasta salad to match selected design success criteria.

This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to design and prepare a recipe for a pasta salad for an airline meal using different foods that are grown and produced in Italy. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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