KS1 Fruit and Veg Snoops PowerPoint presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to accompany the Food Detectives KS1 lesson plan, it features starter activities, a main activity and plenary.

These activities have been designed to be flexible – you can choose how to fit them into your timetable.

Get the whole school involved!

Why not encourage every pupil to become a food detective by holding a lunchtime investigators tasting session in the canteen where pupils can try a new fruit or vegetable they have never eaten before.

Curriculum

Supports the design and technology, science, mathematics and English curricula.

Design and Technology

• Explore and evaluate a range of existing products

Science

• Say which part of the body is associated with each sense
• Describe the importance of eating the right amounts of different types of food
• Perform simple tests
• Identify and classify
• Identify and name a variety of everyday materials
• Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials

Mathematics

• Practise counting and ordering numbers
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
• Solve (one-step) problems that involve addition and subtraction

English – spoken

• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes
• Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints

English – written

• Write down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
• Discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils

In the classroom

In these activities, pupils become food detectives and find out all about sugar, fruit and vegetables. Fun games get them talking about and identifying different fruit and vegetables before they go on to carry out a hands-on investigation. By the end of the activities, the pupils have a new understanding of the importance of a variety of fruit and vegetables as an alternative to sugar and as part of their 5 a Day.

The activities include:

• Identifying Fruit and Veg
• Undercover Investigation
• Fruit and Veg Snoop

Learning objectives

By the end of these activities, pupils will be able to:

• identify different fruit and vegetables
• explore and evaluate fruit and vegetables, describing their feel, appearance, smell and taste
• recall the new recommended daily maximum sugar intake for their age range
• explain why fruit and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet, are a good sugar swap and why they are important to their 5 a Day
• select lower-sugar alternatives to high-sugar products