Lesson Two – Preparing Vegetables

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and model some of the different ways that can be used to prepare a range of vegetables to make and cook foods to serve in a cafe.

The class can practise using different tools and equipment to measure, cut and shape a selection of vegetables that can be prepared for use in each of the cafe meals.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and model some of the different ways that can be used to prepare a range of vegetables to make and cook foods to serve in a cafe

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different ways of preparing foods using a range of cooking actions and a worksheet to select vegetables and cooking actions to use when practise preparing foods to make a range of meals to serve in a cafe.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore different ways of preparing a range of vegetables to use when cooking foods for cafe.

This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to select and combine different ingredients to design and make a range of foods including sandwiches and cakes that can be sold in café in a city location. 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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