An interactive website to teach and promote healthier eating and good food hygiene practices
Cookin Castle
Teach primary school children about a healthy balanced diet, the main food groups and what kinds of foods should be increased and limited in their diet
An interactive website to teach and promote healthier eating and good food hygiene practices to children in primary 4 to 7
Interactive
- HWB 1-15a - I am developing my understanding of the human body and can use this knowledge to maintain and improve my wellbeing and health.
- HWB 1-16a
- HWB 1-30a - By investigating the range of foods available I can discuss how they contribute to a healthy diet.
- HWB 1-32a
- HWB 1-33a - I am becoming aware of how cleanliness, hygiene and safety can affect health and wellbeing and I apply this knowledge in my everyday routines such as taking care of my teeth.
- HWB 2-16a
- HWB 2-32a
- HWB 2-33a
- HWB 3-16a
- HWB 3-33a
Pupils will be able to:
- develop knowledge of kitchen hygiene
- develop knowledge of food storage
- develop knowledge of personal hygiene
- understand the storage of different types of food
- identify areas for cleaning in a kitchen
- identify the correct sequence for hand washing
- identify a range of healthy food options to make a meal
- plan a healthy menu for a week
- increase awareness of important of hygiene when dealing with food
Resources needed
You will need:
- Cookin Castle interactive resource
- teacher's guide on the website which explains how to play the game
Using this resource
- Visit the Cookin' Castle website
- click the green 'Play Now' button
- step 1: Generate name
- step 2: Find your school – type in your school name and it should appear
- download code so you can back to your scores
- begin play - the wizard will keep you right!
- explore the castle storeroom and kitchen for games
Activities
- Cookin Castle can be used as an individual groups task or on a whiteboard as a class activity.
- pupils take the role of the family cook within Cookin Castle – the last cook has left the family in the castle feeling ill and their job is to make the family feel better
- the wizard provides a tutorial, written and audio, about how to play the game and encourage pupils to investigate the different area of the castle
- the 2 areas of the Castle are:
- the store room – which has been left in a terrible mess by the previous cook so the first task is to clean and tidy it and test the pupils' food hygiene knowledge
- the kitchen – choose what the family have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks and prepare and cook dinner for the family.
Cross curricular links
There are several cross curricular links within this activity.
- Health and Wellbeing
- PE - discuss how food provides people with energy and how the body uses it.
- discuss nutritional needs for different members of the family
- discuss food preferences and food allergies and the importance of reading food labels
- spotting hazards in the kitchen using the "Crazy Kitchen" interactive
- learn names of bacteria and the conditions required for them to grow
- research various health conditions related to food
- explore cooking techniques related to healthy eating.
- keep a food diary of their own for day/weekend/weekday - children can take photos of food as a visual diary.
- discuss the importance of hand washing and correct techniques required
- Literacy – reading, finding and using information
- Social Studies
- discuss rationing in World War 2
- Numeracy
- discuss food labels and weights of food.
- discuss food shopping and money involved.
- relate fractions to the Eatwell Guide
- Expressive Arts
- draw bacteria
- draw abstract images of how food goes through the body
- create a collage of different food groups
- music - create music to mimic harmful or good bacteria
Assessment opportunities
- presentation of meal choices – peer assessment
- create a menu – peer or teacher assessment
- class quiz to show knowledge of facts covered
- pupils aim to get a high mark for the store room section and overall high score following the kitchen section
- pupils say why foods need to be stored on certain shelves of fridge