Designing and Making with Food at Key Stage One
From the Nuffield Foundation, these activities challenge children to make and prepare toast to customers' specifications. This task allows children to: • explore the different types of bread that can be toasted • find out people's preferences for this common food • think about when and how toast is…
Food Technology
A Nuffield design hexagon task focusing on food technology. The resource aims to extend understanding of how to evaluate a design by thinking how it affects people and whether it performs as expected. This resource contains a number of activities for each side of the design hexagon (student pages and resource tasks). In addition: •…
Food Technology: Design Guides
A set of design guides for Key Stage Four focusing on food technology providing a straightforward way for students to become familiar with the sorts of questions they should ask when designing for a particular focus area. A set of design guides for Key Stage Four focusing on electronic products providing a straightforward way…
Key Stage Four Food Technology Resource Tasks
A set of Key Stage Four Nuffield Foundation resource tasks focusing on food technology. Resource tasks are short, practical focused, activities designed to teach the resources for capability in a way which should intrigue and amuse students.
Key Stage Four Food Technology Chooser Charts
A set of Key Stage Four Nuffield Foundation chooser charts focusing on food technology. Chooser charts help students make decisions about approaches to take for strategy and communication. The chooser charts are particularly useful when students are tackling open-ended projects, such as capability tasks.
Key Stage Four Food Technology Capability Tasks
A set of Key Stage Four Nuffield Foundation capability tasks focusing on design, making and evaluation in food technology. For students to develop and reveal their capability longer more open tasks requiring designing, making and evaluating are necessary. Sometimes these activities are referred to as projects, or design and making…