Resources for schools and early learning services

Large amounts of the kai we eat is processed. Processing makes kai available to us even after the harvest season has passed. It can also make kai taste better and safer to eat.

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.

There are many benefits to children as young as 6 months drinking from an open cup, rather than a sippy cup or bottle.

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.

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.

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.