Food Technology
The primary purpose of Cookit is to improve pupils' skills, understanding and enjoyment of food and healthy eating.
The site provides support for the teaching and learning of a wide range of basic skills and processes. It encourages and inspires learners to explore cooking and to create and share their own recipes, using both the site and mobile devices.
The site also has strong cross-curricular links to History (Prehistoric to Modern), Citizenship, Sciences, Literacy (instructional writing), Maths (measures) and RE (celebrations), as well as a rich bank of modern recipes ranging from simple "no cook" recipes to complex, multi-step dishes.
Learn at home with ages 5–14 with free Get Set to Eat Fresh resources.
Get Set to Eat Fresh, a free education programme from Aldi and Team GB, helps young people aged 5–14 in developing their understanding and love of fresh, healthy food, the skills they need to cook for themselves and the desire to celebrate good food with friends and family. To support parents/carers teaching at home, we've collected a selection of our great resources to help you explore fresh, healthy food, exclusive insights from Olympic athletes, and build all-round healthy habits outside of the classroom.
Worlds of Food
Explore how climate affects food from around the world with our free resource for students aged 5–14.
Team GB athletes enjoy foods from all over the world, but what makes a national dish? Our Worlds of Food resources build understanding of food around the world, the variety of ways in which we can build a balanced meal and how geography – landscapes, climates and ecosystems – can shape food traditions. The activities celebrate the similarities and differences in international foods, explore how food grows and challenge students to use their geographical knowledge to create a dish for a fictional country!
Children love doing quizzes. They’re fun and make a welcome break from text-books. But here’s the thing.
Every time your child plays one of our quizzes, they will recall information they’ve already learned, it’s a formula called Active Recall.
Doing quizzes makes us think. The more we think, the more embedded our knowledge becomes. The more embedded the knowledge, the easier it is for us to recall it on demand. Click on the different icons below to find quizzes about food.
Cooking is fun. It is also useful. You might be asked to make sandwiches, make a salad, make meals, or bake a cake. This quiz looks at some of the skills you need to do well in cooking. Like in other jobs, planning and preparing are important when cooking. You need to be very well organised. How well prepared are you to answer these ten quiz questions?
What is Design and Technology? It is all about having ideas and developing them - designing useful things, creating them and then trying them out. There are lots of different ways of making things, from cooking to woodwork, building to sewing. In this quiz you can find out a little bit more about the steps needed to make something really useful.
We all need to eat food. Where does food come from? What different types of food are there? What are good things to eat? Before you can start cooking, you need to be choosing which foods to use. This quiz helps you work through choosing foods so as to grow and stay healthy and strong.
It is very important that children understand the principles of a healthy and varied diet.
From the true colour of carrots to how to spot the difference between kinds of cows, why onions make us cry to the magic behind growing straight cucumbers, Stefan Gates reveals where our food comes from and how it is made. These clips are taken from the BBC series 'The Secret Life of Our Favourite Dishes.'
There are 5 different favourite dishes in the series including:
Preparing food is a perfect activity for children and cooking fresh, nutritious food is an important life skill. Therefore it is important that children are taught a range of cooking skills with increasing competence such as cutting, grating, peeling, arranging and cracking.
Skills snippets videos
An expert team of food teachers developed these Skills Snippets to make teaching cooking skills easier. If children grasp basic skills (e.g. using knives, peeling, grating) then they have a toolbox for life.
The bridge technique is a safe way of teaching children to cut something in half. Here's how to do it, click the icon to go to the bridge snippet video.
The claw technique is a safe way of teaching children how to slice ingredients. Here's how to do it, click the icon to go to the claw snippet video.
Let's look at how to teach children to peel fruit and vegetables safely. Click the icon to go to the peel snippet video.
Let's look at how to teach children to grate ingredients safely and effectively. Click the icon to go to the grate snippet video.
Food a fact of life have created a new area to support home learning. Every two weeks they will share a new 'wave' of ideas and support! These 'waves' of activities and ideas will be uploaded here for you to explore together at home.
Wave 5 - activities and ideas (18/05/20)
Welcome to wave 5 - 42 activities/resources around healthy eating to support remote learning at home. Select the activities that best suit your needs! They are divided into two: those that take less time and/or are less complex, and those that take more time and/or are more complex. Click the link to explore the resources.
Wave 4 - activities and ideas (4/05/20)
Welcome to wave 4 - 42 activities/resources around cooking to support remote learning at home. Select the activities that best suit your needs! They are divided into two: those that take less time and/or are less complex, and those that take more time and/or are more complex. Click the icon to explore the activities and resources.
Wave 3 - activities and ideas (20/4/20)
Welcome to wave 3 - 45 activities/resources to support remote learning at home. Select the activities that best suit your needs! They are divided into two: those that take less time and/or are less complex, and those that take more time and/or are more complex. Click the icon to explore the activities and resources.
Wave 2 - activities and ideas (6/4/20)
Welcome to wave 2 - 58 activities/resources to support remote learning at home. Select the activities that best suit your needs! They are divided into two: those that take less time and/or are less complex, and those that take more time and/or are more complex. Click the icon to explore the activities and resources.
Wave 1 - activities and ideas (30/3/20)
Below you'll find 54 activities/resources to support remote learning at home. Select the activities that best suit your needs! They are divided into two: those that take less time and/or are less complex, and those that take more time and/or are more complex. Click the icon to explore the activities and resources.
Cooking and baking
Making the most of everyday opportunities through cooking and baking gives children many opportunities to learn new skills and further develop skills they already have. For example, children can help with weighing out ingredients which gives opportunities to read numbers and think about real-life measures.
How tall might your biscuit tower be?
Estimate how many rice krispies you might use.
How many different arrays can you make?
Which 2D shaped pancakes can you make?
Make a delicious fruit crumble.
Kids' cooking recipes
Get fussy little eaters into the kitchen and turn them into little chefs with our easy and fun cooking projects. They'll love tasting their handiwork, too! Click on the icon to explore the 67 recipes.
Healthy recipes for kids
If you find yourself at a loss for healthy kids' recipe ideas, we can help. Try these easy recipes that kids will love. Click on the icon to explore the recipes.
Recipes for kids
Looking for recipes to help your child learn how to cook? Or are you a mini master-chef looking for the next challenge? We've got loads of easy recipes to try, from pitta pizzas to chocolate cupcakes. Click on the icon to explore some more recipes from BBC Food.
Welcome to Countryside Classroom
Home Education Hub
Here you can find a wealth of free, downloadable resources to help with teaching and learning at home on the themes of food, farming and the natural environment. We have resources for all ages, on a wide range of topics, and for use indoors or outdoors. Click on the icon to find out more about food, farming and the natural environment.
Countryside Online
We want to open young eyes and inspire children to learn more about British farming, from the food we eat to the countryside we all treasure. That's why we've got a range of different activities for parents and grandparents to do with their children during these unprecedented times.
Teaming up with EatFarmNow, #LockdownLearning brings the world of food and farming and the joy of being out on the farm and in the countryside to the comfort of your own home during the current lockdown. Our projects are fun and engaging while teaching your children some of the science and technology skills they might be missing at school. Click on the icon above to find lots of activities to do at home.