5 fully resourced DT lessons exploring wartime cooking and nutrition
This hands-on food technology unit is designed to complement a KS2 World War II topic. Across five engaging lessons, pupils develop practical cookery skills while learning about rationing, wartime meals, and healthy eating.
Created by an experienced Art and DT subject lead, these lessons have been successfully used in real classrooms and are packed with opportunities for practical learning, discussion, and cross-curricular links.
What’s included:
✔ 5 detailed lesson plans
✔ 5 PowerPoint presentations
✔ Wartime and modern bread recipes
✔ Salad and sausage roll recipes
✔ Honey cake recipe
✔ Worksheets on egg substitutes, rationing, food evaluation and the balanced plate
✔ Wordsearch and visual resources
Lesson overview:
- Fruit and Veg Focus – Explore the importance of fruit and vegetables, practise knife skills, and make a wartime-style pasta sauce.
- Make Do and Mend Salad – Investigate ingredients, prepare a salad, and evaluate food hygiene and kitchen safety.
- Rationing and Recipes – Learn about food during WWII, use an egg substitute, and bake banana bread.
- Wartime Meal Planning – Create posters or PowerPoints showing daily meals, then compare wartime cooking with modern equivalents.
- Street Party Celebration – Plan food for a wartime party, evaluate recipes against the balanced plate model, and make sausage rolls.
Why this unit stands out:
✔ Strong cross-curricular links to history, science, and PSHE
✔ Encourages independence, teamwork, and practical life skills
✔ Differentiated activities and clear modelling of skills
✔ Perfect for themed weeks, cooking blocks, or integrated DT/history units
Perfect for:
- Year 3 to Year 6 DT and history lessons
- WWII cross-curricular projects
- Food and nutrition units
- Practical classroom cookery with historical context
- Supply, observation or interview lessons
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Tags: KS2, KS3, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6, WWII, WW2, World War 2, food tech, rationing, DT, cross-curricular, healthy eating, cookery, subject leader
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