Attributes of a healthy and tasty meal – Lesson 2 Year 8

In this lesson, students learn about the key features of a healthy meal.

Attributes of a healthy and tasty meal is the topic for lesson two of our Food Technology: Year 8 unit plan. It starts to develop students’ cooking skills while they learn to work collaboratively. They’ll also start to learn about key attributes of ingredients in meals.

Download the whole lesson plan as a kit or “pick and mix” information to suit your students.

Download complete lesson kit (PDF)

Lesson plan resources

Recipe

• Courgette fritters (PDF)

Evaluation sheets

• Lesson 2 evaluation sheet - Attributes of a healthy meal (PDF)

Activity sheets

• Eat most – vegetables and fruit activity - student copy (PDF)
• Eat most – vegetables and fruit activity - teacher copy (PDF)
• Foods and functions activity - student copy (PDF)
• Foods and functions activity - teacher copy (PDF)

Skill card

• Sweetcorn (PDF)

​Recipe video

• Corn fritters