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Treat detectives: a look at treats over the past 100 years

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Food

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Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Learn about changes in living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Design and Technology

  • Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.
  • Understand where food comes from.

Lesson Planning

Children will investigate the recent history and changes in sweet treats! They will look at treats their grandparents and great-grandparents may have tasted and make some of these for themselves.

Teaching Outcomes
To explore sweet treats from past eras and create a timeline of sweet treats over the past 100 years.
To bake a treat from a different era.

Children will:

  • Identify and taste treats from their grea grandparents’, grandparents’ and parents’ childhoods.
  • Create a timeline of when various treat foods that are still around today were launched, based on clues.
  • Bake a treat from their great-grandparents’ or grandparents’ childhood.

Provided Resources

  • Generational timeline labels
  • Images of sweet treats
  • Time clues

You Will Need

  • Ingredients for baking
  • Equipment for baking: handheld whisks, non-plastic bowls

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