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Home lessons KS1 How Clean Is Your Kitchen?

KS1 How Clean Is Your Kitchen?

This session focuses on avoiding bad microbes in the kitchen, from knowing where they're found to stopping their spread. This lesson perfectly complements the Health and Prevention element of the new RSHE curriculum for primary aged children.

Last Updated October 5, 2020 Medium English Bacteria, Cross-contamination, Harmful, Hygiene, Micro-organism, Microbes, Pathogen
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What will you learn?

This Food Hygiene lesson demonstrates how microbes can infect humans through raw and undercooked foods. Students act as chefs for the class and prepare a pretend chicken sandwich. In this activity students literally see how far they have spread harmful microbes!

Activities include:

  • Students prepare a pretend chicken sandwich that allows them to see how far they have spread dangerous microbes.
  • Worksheets facilitate a discussion on "do's and don'ts" for kitchen cleanliness and management.
  • The "Kitchen Investigator" experiment that uses bread to show where most microbes lurk in the kitchen.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand that there can be harmful microbes found on raw food, especially raw meat.
  • Know the best way to destroy harmful microbes on meat is to cook thoroughly.
  • Know to always wash your hands after touching raw meat.
  • Know that raw meat should be kept on the bottom shelf of the fridge.
  • Know not use the same chopping board and knife to chop raw and cooked meat.
  • Know that meat and vegetables should be chopped on different chopping boards.

Requirements:

  • Activity 1
  • Glo Gel or powder (Alternative: glitter)
  • UV light
  • Chicken fillets made from play dough
  • Plastic toy food
  • Paper plates
  • Plastic knives, chopping boards
  • Oven area (Optional)
  • Activity 2
  • Bread
  • Sandwich bags
  • Water
  • Marker pen
  • Magnifying glass

Curriculum Links:

  • Science: Working Scientifically, Living things and their habitats
  • English: Reading & Comprehension
  • RSHE: Health & Prevention
  • Design & Technology: Cooking & Nutrition
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Curriculum Tags

Cooking & Nutrition

Design & Technology

English

Reading & Comprehension

RSHE

Science
Health & PreventionLiving things and their habitatsWorking Scientifically

Lesson Tags

Bacteria

Cross-contamination

Harmful

Hygiene

Microbes

Pathogen
Micro-organism

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The Department for Education have listed e-Bug in their guidance for education and childcare during coronavirus. e-Bug resources are recommended for teaching Infection prevention and control topics, including hand and respiratory hygiene.

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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that schools, educational and residential settings for children and young people, use Public Health England’s e-Bug resources to teach about hygiene, infections and antibiotics. e-Bug supports implementation of NICE guidance on antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population (NG63).

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