Foundation Stage : Curriculum Topics : Water at Home : Lesson Three – Cooking


This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore and devise ways of using water to prepare different foods and drinks at home. The class can record some of the different fruits that they are able to taste in a range of cocktail drinks.

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Learning Objectives

Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to events. Talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Learning Outcomes

I can answer questions about how and why something happens. I can identify and sort uses of water at home.

Cooking

Teaching sequence to help the children explore and devise ways of using water to prepare different foods and drinks at home

What Drinks

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify and describe different types of drinks that might be drunk at home

Fruit Juices

Template to help the children record each of the different fruits that they can taste when drinking a range of juices

Sorting Drinks

Activity cards to help the children sort drinks into groups according as to whether they need to be mixed with water before drinking

Cooking

Interactive activity to help the children explore and devise ways of using water to prepare different foods and drinks at home

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and devise ways of using water to prepare different foods and drinks at home

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