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Lesson 8 - Food processing

A large amount of the kai we eat is processed. Show ākonga how kai from everyday ingredients are changed by processing with the morphing kai activity.
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Lesson 7 - How kai makes me feel

What and how much we eat affects the way our bodies function and feel. Encourage your ākonga to identify levels of fullness and then create emojis in relation to how different kai make them feel.
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Lesson 6 - Te reo Māori food vocabulary

Gather your dictionary detectives to learn the te reo Māori words for different kai. Extend the learning by asking ākonga to find the translations to the kai in a language spoken at home or of interest.
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Lesson 5 - Kai and your body

We can connect different types of kai with helping parts of our body function properly. Learn about the different kai groups with a card sorting activity and then help Sam by pairing the cards to the body parts they support.
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Lesson 4 - Seasonal kai

Kai needs the right weather conditions to grow. Ākonga can familiarise themselves with foods available from chilly takurua to sunny raumati in this word search. Then test the class learning with the kai sorting by seasonal availability.
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Lesson 3 - Let’s talk about kai

One of the ways we can talk about kai is to describe how it looks, tastes, smells and feels using our senses. The intent of this lesson is to build ākonga vocabulary for words they can use to describe their food experience through being sensory scientists.
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Lesson 2 - Adventures of kai

We often purchase kai from the supermarket but don’t always know where it really comes from. Let your ākonga explore the adventures of kai by travelling with it from its original source to the table.
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Lesson 1 - Where’s the kai?

Help Hearty find and name the kai in the picture, then place the kai into groups you could eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and paramanawa.
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Healthy eating and activity storybooks (Māori and English)

This teaching kit contains four glossy storybooks featuring Māori superheroes Hina and Maui.
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Food groups activity - teacher guide

A lesson plan with activity cards for teachers to introduce the four food groups to students.
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Cultural foods Year 7 - Lesson plan

This is an extension lesson for our Food Technology: Year 7 unit plan.
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Cooking with allergies - Lesson plan

In this lesson students learn to make recipes that are fit for purpose.
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