Food for Life 7-10

Food for Life 7-10 offers an accessible approach to the new Australian Curriculum v9.0 Food specialisations sub-strand and caters for state Food Technology curriculums. The focus on skills development meets students at their point of understanding and offers a design-driven approach to developing food skills for now and the future. Written by experienced and enthusiastic teachers, Food for Life 7-10 develops knowledge and understanding that empowers students to make informed food choices inside and outside of the classroom. New, contemporary recipes, including Indigenous ingredients, and examples of ethical and sustainable food systems encourage students to engage with the study of food in new and varied ways. The Interactive Textbook includes practical activities, tools to understand food terminology with ease, and compelling video demonstrations and content.

Features

• A single resource for Years 7-10 that provides multiple entry points to the knowledge and skills content to support teachers in tailoring individualised learning for a mixed-ability classroom.
• Carefully-scaffolded skills development, to ensure that students build essential food processes and production skills, and learn valuable design thinking, project management, enterprise, and innovation skills they can use into the future.
• A new visual glossary of recipe ingredients to help students familiarise themselves with foods they may not have encountered.
• Videos demonstrating practical activities, processes and recipes.

Table of Contents

• Getting started
• Chapter 1 Managing food production safely
• Chapter 2 Let's get cooking
• Chapter 3 Food choices for healthy living
• Chapter 4 Vegetables
• Chapter 5 Fruit
• Chapter 6 Grains and cereals
• Chapter 7 Milk, milk products and alternatives
• Chapter 8 Lean meat and poultry, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds, legumes and beans
• Chapter 9 Eating outside the five food groups
• Chapter 10 Taste Australia, taste the world
• Chapter 11 Foods for special purposes
• Chapter 12 Making and marketing food

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