Let's make a potato salad
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can make a potato salad.
Key learning points
- We measure ingredients to ensure success and so that we can make the recipe again.
- The food skills used to make a potato salad are weighing, measuring, cutting, mixing and sprinkling.
- The ingredients in this recipe come from plants (potatoes) and animals (yogurt dressing).
Keywords
Ingredients - the food needed to make a recipe
Weighing - to find out how heavy something is
Measuring - to find out the size of something
Sprinkling - to scatter
Common misconception
We can make a recipe by guessing and judging the measures.
We weigh and measure ingredients to make sure the recipe is a success, and so we can make it the same again in the future.
Teacher tip
Grow potatoes at school in grow bags and buckets. The potatoes can then be harvested, cooked and used for potato salad. A local garden centre might be able to help.
Equipment
For ingredients and equipment see the recipe in additional materials.
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - may contain allergens
Risk assessment required - equipment
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).Lesson video
Loading...
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What should you wear before you cook?
Q2.What do we use to cut food?
Q3.All food comes from ...
Q4.Match the following:
are vegetables, from a plant
are fruit, from a plant
are foods from animals
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.True or false? We need to measure the ingredients for a recipe.
Q2.What would you use to weigh potatoes?
Q3.Put this potato salad recipe in the correct order.
Q4.Yogurt is made from...
To help you plan your 1 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Let's make a potato salad, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 1 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Let's make a potato salad, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 1 cooking and nutrition lessons from the Food from plants and animals unit, dive into the full primary cooking and nutrition curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.