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Food

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Egyptians Daily Life

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations.
  • Characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘peasantry’ and ‘civilisation’.
  • Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between cultural, economic and social history.

Design and Technology

  • Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.
  • Prepare and cook a variety of dishes.
  • Understand where Ancient Egyptian food came from.

Lesson Planning

Discover the diet of Ancient Egyptians; understand that bread was the staple diet for all Ancient Egyptians (both rich and poor); prepare some Ancient Egyptian food for a feast; taste a range of Ancient Egyptian foods.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand the range of foods eaten by Ancient Egyptians and list ingredients used in their diet.
  • To prepare some Ancient Egyptian foods and taste foods similar to those eaten in Ancient Egypt.

Children will:

  • Describe the diet of Ancient Egyptians.
  • Understand that bread was the staple diet for all Ancient Egyptians (both rich and poor).
  • Prepare some Ancient Egyptian food for a feast.
  • Taste a range of Ancient Egyptian foods.

Provided Resources

  • Food production images
  • Food images
  • List of common foods

You Will Need

  • Fruit
  • Bread
  • Recipes
  • Ingredients for chosen recipes
  • Cooking equipment
  • Kitchen
  • Extra adults

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