1. I don’t like any healthy foods.
Design a salad
Healthy food is boring!
I don’t like any healthy foods.
Salad? Not salad!
Sheena Montgomery

2. Rationale Healthy schools initiatives Government targets 2009
Life skills
Promote healthy eating

3. Learning outcomes Recognise links between food + health
Develop practical cooking skills
Introduce, experiment with + use new, different foods and flavours
Learn about food properties, functions, nutrition
Design for others

4. Overview

5. Design specification Must be an individual portion size
Must have pasta, rice or couscous as the base
Must contain at least 2 fruits or vegetables
Must contain a meat, fish or alternative – including dairy
Must be colourful
Must be appealing to a wide number of school pupils
Must be original in design
Should be easily adapted to be lower in fat
Should be easily adapted to be higher in fibre
Should be modified to be lower in salt
Should be modified to be lower in sugar
Could be packaged
Could cost less than 60p

6. Approach Tasting, testing, rating products + flavours
Practical based lessons
Dressings specific to product
Design and make
Ready steady cook
Packaging
I hear, I forget
I see, I remember
I do, I understand

7. Skill development Ideas Shop survey – sensory analysis Market research
Disassembly
Questionnaire
Preference tests
4 x 4
Ready steady cook
Primary research - extension
ICT – extension
£££

8. Skill development Design sketches Exemplar material Rice salad
Final salad – range
Final salad – peer evaluation
Food wheel Original format Final format
Fruit
Veg
Base
Meat Fish Dairy
Dressing
Base
Dressing
Meat, Fish
Dairy
Fruit,
Vegetables

9. Skill development Planning Rice – story board style
Pasta – Fill the gaps, prompted
Couscous – Fill the gaps, unprompted,
Final – List format, modification considered

10. Skill development Choosing components + equipment
Planning – prompted explanation of use
Practical – assessment
Using tools + equipment
Practical - assessment

11. Skill development Evaluating Radar sensory analysis – all
Bad
Not
sure
Good
Evaluating
Radar sensory analysis – all
Changes, skills, H+S – all
4 Fs – rice
Traffic lights – dressings
PMI – pasta
Peer assessment – pasta
Hypothesis + review – couscous
Justify choices - final
Self evaluate working practice- final
PMI, peer preference test - final

12. Assessment NC level descriptors on documentation Pupil A4L
Teacher assessment
Practical specific level descriptors
Pupil evaluation

13. Evaluation
Paperwork
Focus
Timings
Depth of knowledge

14. Future