Lunch Box

Lunch Box

 
KS1 &2 Science based farm visits.

Working in partnership with Alvis Brothers and Farmlink the Industrial Trust, the National leader in the provision of out of classroom curriculum linked activities, can arrange and subject to conditions potentially fund your next STEM based visit.
Lunch Box
Science Key Stage 1: Sc1. 1a,b; 2b,c.
Science Key Stage 2: Sc1. 2a,b,c,g,h.
Objectives: To understand that it is vitally important to eat a balanced diet & that healthy food should be eaten daily. This is especially important for young & active people.
Methodology: This lesson identifies healthy foods & how they might be used to create a healthy diet, for example in a lunch box.
Key Words: Protein, skeleton, dairy products, calcium, balanced, fibre, vitamins, carbohydrate, sieve, allergies
Skills & Concepts: Differentiate between different foods, discuss, plan your food intake, and understand what is a balanced diet is.
Lesson Plan Classroom activity. Resources:
Timing: Activity - Allow 30 minutes
  1. Introduction & discuss pupils’ perception of ‘healthy food.’
  2. Milk. Why we need to drink milk. Calcium for skeleton especially for first 30 years. Discuss dairy products & recipes using them. Balanced diet. Other sources of calcium e.g. kiwi fruit. Proteins
  3. Sandwich. Why bring packed lunches to school? Cost/time/ allergies. White or brown bread? Balance again. Source of carbohydrate (energy) & fibre. What’s in a sandwich filling?
  4. Bag of grain. Discuss seeds. Grind them to make flour. Brown bits are husks (fibre) Sieve to remove them. Eat both types of bread. Recipes for flour products. Discuss yeast
  5. Potato. Uses for potato. Carbohydrate. Skin is a source of fibre.
  6. Apple. Source of vitamins but fruit loses them after about 3 months. (links to food miles & local food.)

cheese sandwich with one slice white the other brown small block of cheese small bottle of milk potato apple small bag of grain flour coffee grinder sieve A4 paper
Cross Curriculum Linkages delivered by the above activities:
  • Science
  • History
  • Geography
  • Maths
  • English
  • PSHE
  • Technology
  • Other lessons

  Supported by The Ernest Cook Trust