Designing for a target market

In this lesson, we will design our own healthy lunch, describing ingredients used, using the correct vocabulary and making sure that it is suitable for our target market. Please note this lesson will require some additional equipment, beyond a pen, pencil or paper, to fully participate. Please see the equipment slide near the start of the lesson video and make sure your child is adequately supervised if equipment is required.

Designing for a target market

In this lesson, we will design our own healthy lunch, describing ingredients used, using the correct vocabulary and making sure that it is suitable for our target market. Please note this lesson will require some additional equipment, beyond a pen, pencil or paper, to fully participate. Please see the equipment slide near the start of the lesson video and make sure your child is adequately supervised if equipment is required.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. describe the purpose of their products
  2. the correct technical vocabulary for the projects they are undertaking
  3. work confidently within a range of contexts, such as the home, school, leisure, culture, enterprise, industry and the wider environment

Equipment

Range of relevant example foods to taste and evaluate, suitable equipment and utensils such as: knives, chopping board, weighing scales, measuring jugs, bowls, baking trays, spoons - various sizes, parchment paper, cling film

Content guidance

  • Equipment requiring safe usage.

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

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4 Questions

Q1.
What are we designing?
Correct answer: A packed lunch
A take away meal
Q2.
Who will the sandwich be for?
A baby
Correct answer: A child
An adult
Q3.
What do we need the packed lunch to be?
Big
Correct answer: Healthy
High in salt and sugar
Q4.
What should be include in the healthy packed lunch?
Crisps
Fizzy pop
Correct answer: Fruit and vegetables

4 Questions

Q1.
What are ingredients?
different questions
Correct answer: items of food we need to make a packed lunch
things like a knife and a grater
Q2.
What vegetables have been included in the design criteria?
apples
Correct answer: carrots, pepper and cucumber
cheese
Q3.
What protein has been included in the packed lunch design?
Correct answer: cheese
chocolate spread
ham
jam
Q4.
What should our packed lunch not contain much of?
carbohydrates
fruit and vegetables
Correct answer: sugar and salt

Lesson appears in

UnitDesign and technology / Cooking and nutrition: healthy and varied diets

Design and technology