Home Learning Menu Choose your home learning tasks

Home Learning Menu - Choose your home learning tasks from the selection below. The spice level suggests the difficulty or level of challenge that each task offers (1 chilli = Level 4, 4 chillies = Level 7). As a minimum, you should meet your target level for each task, but you should also challenge yourself to at least one higher level task. Side orders can be completed as extra pieces of home learning. Although they will not count towards your fortnightly piece of home learning, they will aid your level and you will be rewarded with merits. Tick each task that you do. q Keep a food diary to record what you eat in one day. Plot the foods on the Eatwell Plate and comment on how well balanced your diet is. Then consider how you could make your diet healthier. q Keep a food diary to record what you eat over two days. Discuss what you have eaten in relation to the Eatwell Plate, comparing the two days. Then, write a one-day meal plan that you could follow to make your diet healthier, explaining your food choices. q Keep a food diary to record what you eat over five days. Analyse what you have eaten against the Eatwell Plate. Then, write an eating plan that you could follow to make your diet healthier, explaining your choices. Consider the nutrients that different foods would provide, along with the functions they perform in your body. Food Challenge! Mains Starters q Design an information sheet to inform people about the correct way to store different types of food. Include images. q Develop a resource to help people remember the different sections of the Eatwell Plate and the foods in each one, e. g. a poem. q Design a poster about seasonal foods to explore which foods are available at different times of the year. You may find this website useful to use www. eattheseason s. co. uk. q Watch a cooking show on TV. Then, write a review of one of the dishes made, identifying the equipment, ingredients and techniques used. Consider ways to make the product more well-balanced. q Produce a detailed step-by-step plan for one of the techniques you have learnt in class, e. g. breadmaking. Include photographs/images. q Develop a presentation exploring seasonal foods. For each season, suggest a well-balanced main meal that could be made using the ingredients discussed. q Design and conduct a questionnaire to assess how well-balanced people’s diets are. Issue your questionnaire to at least five people, then present your results in graphs. Analyse your findings, making recommendations about how to eat more healthily. q Identify a range of special diets that people may follow and explain why. q Watch a food programme on TV and write a review to explain the topical issues that it explores and why they are important. q Design a magazine recipe page for one of the products you have made in class. Suggest modifications that could be made. q Select four dishes from a restaurant’s menu. Analyse how healthy they are, and make suggestions for how their nutritional value could be improved. q Research three different special diets Explain what they are, how they impact people’s food choices, and food products that can be eaten. For each dietary need, adapt a standard product to make it suitable. q Complete a ‘Functions of Ingredients’ table for one of the food products you have made in class. Identify the ingredient, and then explain the sensory, nutritional and scientific functions. of each one q Design an advert that encourages people to follow a healthy lifestyle. . Include hints and tips to help people follow a well-balanced diet, and also discuss the health implications of an unhealthy diet. Side Orders – fancy something extra? q Design a starter activity for one of the lessons you have completed so far. q Create a game that could be played at the end of a lesson as a plenary. q Write a profile for a chef you are interested in. Explain who they are and what they are known for.