Lesson Two – Food Choices
This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise sorting a range of different foods into groups to show healthy and unhealthy options for a family breakfast, lunch or dinner meal.
The class can design and produce artwork showing examples of healthy and unhealthy foods that might be eaten for a family meal at different times of the day.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise sorting a range of different foods into groups to show healthy and unhealthy options for a family breakfast, lunch or dinner meal
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to sort between healthy and unhealthy foods choices, a set of cards to differentiate between a range of different types of foods into groups for healthy and unhealthy food choices and a template to select and sort a range of different foods into matching groups for healthy and unhealthy food choices (enlarge to A3).
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort between a range of different foods into groups to show healthy and unhealthy meal options.
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify and compare the benefits of different types of foods including fruit and vegetables and discuss ways to care for the body using cleaning and exercise tasks. 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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Family Homes
Explore the sequence of events and characters in a story with a familiar setting, identify and spell words with the /v/ sound at the end of words and compose sentences orally before writing
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Family Rooms
Select sentences to complete speech bubbles to record what different characters might say in response to some of the different events that happened in a story with a familiar setting
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Food Labels
Select descriptive vocabulary words that can be added to labels describing some of the different types of foods that could be eaten by a family for breakfast, lunch and dinner
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Family Sentences
Select and model how to add a range of cvc words to complete different sentences about some of the special things that might happen in a family home as part of a narrative story