2S - Food Technology - Investigating vegetables

Lesson: Design and technology

This week, we enjoyed two full days of Food Technology as part of our D.T. curriculum.

We investigated different vegetables (courgette, tomato, mushroom, celeriac, parsnip and pepper) feeling them and smelling them (see photos - there were some interesting reactions) and then wrote about what we had discovered in terms of their shape and texture.

We then talked about food hygiene and the reasons why hygiene is so important when handling and preparing food as well as sfety when using utensils such as knives. peelers and graters.

After that, we went to the hall to practise our peeling,grating and cutting techniques (see photos).  All the children took to it brilliantly and also cleaned up well after themselves.