
Food Technology: Year 8 unit plan
Our Food Technology Unit Plan is designed for Year 8 students. It focuses on developing cooking, evaluation and planning skills.
Our unit plan is here to help make teaching Food Technology easier. It features eight lesson plans and three extension lessons.
Each lesson plan comes with supporting resources you can download for free. Many of the resources are interactive and can be edited online using tablets or computers, or you can print them out.
Download them as a kit or choose from individual worksheets and lessons below.
Food Technology Unit Plan resources
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Recipes
Evaluation sheets
- Lesson 1 evaluation sheet - Pick ‘n’ mix smoothie (PDF)
- Lesson 1 evaluation sheet - Rainbow vegetable kebab (PDF)
Activity sheets
- Equipment find activity
- Sensory evaluation activity (PDF)
- The Food Technology process activity (PDF)
- Visual Food Guide activity - student copy (PDF)
- Visual Food Guide activity - teacher copy (PDF)
Skill cards
How to videos
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Recipe
Evaluation sheets
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
Recipe video
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Recipe
Evaluation sheet
Activity sheets
- Label the foods activity - student copy (PDF)
- Label the foods activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Sensory evaluation (PDF)
- Visual Food Guide activity (PDF)
Skill cards
Recipe video
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Recipe
Evaluation sheet
Activity sheets
- Sensory evaluation (PDF)
- Working drawings activity - student copy (PDF)
- Working drawings activity - teacher copy (PDF)
Skill cards
Recipe videos
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Recipe
Evaluation sheet
Activity sheets
- Timeline activity - student copy (PDF)
- Timeline activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Sensory evaluation (PDF)
Skill cards
Recipe video
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Recipes
Evaluation sheet
Activity sheets
- Burger takeaway makeover activity - student copy (PDF)
- Burger takeaway makeover activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Cost comparison activity - student copy (PDF)
- Cost comparison activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Sensory evaluation (PDF)
Skill cards
Recipe video
The resources on these pages can be used to support this lesson:
Activity sheet
The resources on these pages can be used to support this lesson:
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Recipes
- Corned silverside fry-up (PDF)
- Kamo kamo (PDF)
- Sapasui – chop suey (PDF)
- Sweet and sour pork (PDF)
- Thai chicken salad (PDF)
- Thai fish cakes (PDF)
- Red lentil and vegetable curry (PDF)
- Courgette pasta carbonara (PDF)
Activity sheet
Dictionary
Our skill card resources can also be used to support this lesson:
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Recipes
- Baked frittata (PDF)
- Carrot salad (PDF)
- Chilli beans with eggs (PDF)
- Dahl curry with cauliflower and spinach (PDF)
- Potato rosti (PDF)
- Vegetable rice paper rolls (PDF)
- Steamed vegetables (PDF)
- Vegetable and bean burgers (PDF)
- Vegetable tom yum soup (PDF)
- Zesty courgette muffins (PDF)
Evaluation sheet
Activity sheets
- Foods and functions activity - student copy (PDF)
- Foods and functions activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Label the foods activity - student copy (PDF)
- Label the foods activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Visual Food Guide activity - student copy (PDF)
- Visual Food Guide activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Sensory evaluation (PDF)
Our skill card resources can also be used to support this lesson:
Download complete lesson (PDF)
Recipes
Evaluation sheets
- Lesson evaluation sheet - Egg and vegetable burrito (PDF)
- Lesson evaluation sheet - Deconstructed burger (PDF)
- Lesson evaluation sheet - Chicken four ways (PDF)
Activity sheets
- Deconstructed burger activity - student copy (PDF)
- Deconstructed burger activity - teacher copy (PDF)
- Sensory evaluation (PDF)
Skill cards
Recipe videos
- Chicken four ways: Pan fried chicken pieces
- Chicken four ways: Chicken and vegetable soup
- Chicken four ways: Chicken drumsticks
- Chicken four ways: Chicken kebabs
- Deconstructed burger: Traditional burgers
- Deconstructed burger: Grilled kofta
- Deconstructed burger: Baked mini meatloaf
- Deconstructed burger: Poached mini meatballs
- Egg and vegetable burrito