Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different types of foods that can be eaten for a range of meals, a template to select and record whether a type of food is grown on a farm or produced in a factory using illustrations and text and a set o cards sort different types of foods into matching groups for fruit, vegetables, fish and meat.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort a selection of different foods for a summer holiday picnic into matching groups using a range of criteria.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to select, identify and prepare different types of foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.