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Food a Fact of Life – Secondary school resources

Published 19 August 09

Building on the successful partnership established over the past 4 years with DairyCo and other sector companies from AHDB, development has started on the production of new materials for support pupils in secondary schools. This has resulted in the production of new teaching modules on Energy and Nutrients, Diet and Health and Ingredients and Food Science. A fourth module, Food Production and Processing, is in development.

The partnership with the British Nutrition Foundation has allowed the developed of an exciting and innovative resource - online interactive tutorials. These feature a pre-test at the start, which then automatically sends each student on a differentiated learning pathway - all of which is self paced and interactive. In addition, a plethora of PowerPoint presentations, video note sheets and worksheets have also been created. These support teachers throughout the UK, linking to curriculum requirements.

The primary school content of the website continues to grow.  Energy Balance, a new interactive activity, is designed to help children aged 8-11 years understand that what they eat provides their body with different amounts of energy, and the activities they perform use different amounts of that energy.  The aim is to stay healthy by keeping the 'energy in' and 'energy out', balanced. 
Click here to visit the Food a fact of life website.