Lesson Four – Pasta Vegetables

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise preparing a selection of different vegetables using a range of cooking techniques to use as part of a pasta salad with an Italian theme.
The class can explain and model how to use different tools and equipment to prepare each of the selected vegetables such as using slicing and chopping actions.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise preparing a selection of different vegetables using a range of cooking techniques to use as part of a pasta salad with an Italian theme
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to prepare different vegetables to use as part of a pasta salad with an Italian theme and a set of cards to select and sequence a set of instructions about how to prepare different vegetables for a pasta salad.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to prepare a selection of different vegetables to use as part of a pasta salad with an Italian theme.
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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