Year 1 - Cooking and nutrition
Let's make a potato salad
Food from plants and animals
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Unit Summary
This unit explores food from plants and animals. Pupils sort food into plant and animal sources, and name a range of food from each source. This learning is extended through making a potato salad, highlighting the food source of each ingredient.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make a potato salad.
Key Notes
- We measure ingredients to ensure success and so that we can make the recipe again.
- The food skills used to make a potato salad are weighing, measuring, cutting, mixing and sprinkling.
- The ingredients in this recipe come from plants (potatoes) and animals (yogurt dressing).
Vocabulary To Learn
- ingredients: the food needed to make a recipe
- weighing: to find out how heavy something is
- measuring: to find out the size of something
- sprinkling: to scatter
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- We can make a recipe by guessing and judging the measures.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
We measure ingredients to ensure success and so that we can make the recipe again. The food skills used to make a potato salad are weighing, measuring, cutting, mixing and sprinkling.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'ingredients'
the food needed to make a recipe.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: We can make a recipe by guessing and judging the measures. Correction: We weigh and measure ingredients to make sure the recipe is a success, and so we can make it the same again in the future.
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