Year 5

Combining ingredients: making bread

In this lesson, we will carry out a focused practical task to explore how to combine a range of ingredients. We will use a range of tools and equipment to explore key ingredients such as yeast and the need for this in bread. You will follow a method sheet and learn how to prepare and make bread. We we will ask you to explore the various types of breads in different cultures. This lesson includes some physical activity and equipment beyond pen, paper or pencil. Please make sure your child is adequately supervised.

Year 5

Combining ingredients: making bread

In this lesson, we will carry out a focused practical task to explore how to combine a range of ingredients. We will use a range of tools and equipment to explore key ingredients such as yeast and the need for this in bread. You will follow a method sheet and learn how to prepare and make bread. We we will ask you to explore the various types of breads in different cultures. This lesson includes some physical activity and equipment beyond pen, paper or pencil. Please make sure your child is adequately supervised.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. accurately assemble, join and combine materials and components
  2. accurately apply a range of finishing techniques, including those from art and design
  3. use techniques that involve a number of steps
  4. follow procedures for safety and hygiene
  5. use a wider range of materials and components than Key Stage 1, including food ingredients and kitchen tools

Equipment

Weighing scales, measuring jugs, bowls, spoons - various sizes, baking trays

Content guidance

  • Equipment requiring safe usage.

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

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3 Questions

Q1.
How is our food manufactured in large numbers?
Cooked in a kitchen.
Correct answer: Mass produced.
Using lots of ingredients.
Q2.
How is our food mass produced?
Correct answer: Our food is sourced, transported and taken to a factory where machines prepare, process and combine the ingredients.
We cook all the ingredients in large cooking pots.
We take all the ingredients and put them together in large numbers.
Q3.
What is meant by food miles, in relation to sustainability?
Food miles is how far a food could travel before it becomes rotten.
Correct answer: Food miles is the combined total of miles our ingredients have travelled to make an end product.
Food miles relates to how long a food product stretches.

4 Questions

Q1.
What is the process of combining the ingredients for making bread?
Correct answer: Kneading
Rolling
Squishing
Q2.
What must we do before we bake our bread?
Pat the dough
Correct answer: Prove the dough
Roll the dough
Q3.
What happens to the bread when it is baked in the oven?
A change in state
Correct answer: A chemical change
It gets lovely and warm
Q4.
What senses would be needed to evaluate your bread?
Touch, smell and taste
Correct answer: Touch, smell, taste and appearance
Touch, smell, taste, appearance and sound