Tackling Obesity
With childhood obesity rising, this programme from Teachers TV looks at how schools can tackle the issues surrounding the problem. Addressing whether schools should help to identify children at risk of obesity, the programme looks at the results of a new law in Arkansas, which allows the state's schools to directly contact…
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…
Coloured Things, Stages One and Two
This Science 5/13 unit for teachers Coloured things stages one and two provides suggestions for children's activities some of which relate directly to colour itself whilst others use an interest in coloured things as a springboard to other areas of investigation. Each chapter has an environmental theme rich in starting points…
How Do You Like Your Toast?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, students write a specification for toast that meets the identified preferences of a particular person. They then make a serving of toast to that specification. The task can be widened to include the development of a production system for…