Year 1 - Cooking and nutrition
Plant or animal?
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 sort foods into plants and animals.
Key Notes
- All food comes from plants or animals.
- Food can be sorted into plants or animals.
- The food we eat comes from plants and/or animals.
Vocabulary To Learn
- plants: a living thing that grows in the ground or water, such as fruit and vegetables
- animals: a living thing that can eat and move, such as a chicken or a dairy cow
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- There is a misunderstanding about the origin of food, and lack of awareness of where food comes from.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
All food comes from plants or animals. Food can be sorted into plants or animals.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'plants'
a living thing that grows in the ground or water, such as fruit and vegetables.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: There is a misunderstanding about the origin of food, and lack of awareness of where food comes from. Correction: All food we eat comes from plants and animals. Food from plants includes fruit and vegetables. Food from animals includes milk, eggs, fish and meat.
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