Online Catalogue | Food Technology
Publisher: Topologika Software LtdDevelops Cookery, Nutrition, Healthy-eating, Safety, Catering, Hospitality and Manual Skills. Captain Cook's Tuck Box aims to get children cooking (and eating) nutritious food. Teachers love the way it saves time and makes budding cooks anticipate their next lesson as much as their hungry tums do. For parents it's a mouth-watering way to make food preparation safe, educational and fun. Captain Cook's Tuck Box includes around 200 child-designed (and munched) recipes (e.g. Hotch Potch, Worm Pie, Caterpillar Salad and 'Dog' Biscuits), ideas for national and religious festivals, ready-to-use cookery books, a talking health genie who provides tips on balanced diets and snacks, and even an (optional) animated joke-telling 'parrot'. The Cookbook section has Beginners, Junior and Senior options with printable, illustrated recipes. The Recipes section lets you browse them with Health and Safety pop-ups, teaching tips and a built-in cooking timer - there are even 15 graduated recipes to teach basic cookery skills. Menus introduces food combinations with a tool for designing party and special occasion menus, plus a useful search engine/filtering system - ideal for linked work in ICT. A well thought out Library offers food and culinary dictionaries, good-food guides, menu guides, health and hygiene advice, and videos. Captain Cook's Tuck Box is easy to install, networkable, and perfect for interactive whiteboards. It comes with configuration options (e.g. sound off and alternative colour schemes), pupil tracking and downloadable lesson plans. It's the only cooking software written specially for British homes and schools - so easy even an adult can use it! Combats obesity and associated illnesses by helping children move from fast food/sweets to fruit, veg and fibre. Explains why fresh food is best, nutrition, food safety and hygiene. Enhances the quality of the community's lives. Helps build relationships by encouraging families to eat together. Supports cross-curricular work in reading, writing and ICT. Automatically calculates ingredient quantities for any class size. Supplied as complete packs with CD and Licence which includes: around 200 recipes to promote 'healthy eating'; 32 videos, Help screens and pupil tracking facilities, Three ready-to-use cookery books and booklet on how to start a Cookery Club; Menu designer, progress certificates, food jokes, Built-in search engine. Reviews available. IWC compatible.Format: Windows CD-ROMKey stage: 1,2, 3Age range: 5-13
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plcVolume 1: Covers following topics Preventing food poisoning, High & low risk foods, Pest control, Food waste. Volume 2: Covers following topics: Food storage & preservation, Food preparation, Cooking food, Cooling food, Food display & service, Food & temperature, Food transport. Each disc is supplied in a double CD-ROM pack, one contains high quality content, ready structured including high quality 3D animations, music, narration, range of interactive tests, quizzes, games, other activities; the second contains all animations, images, sound & text files in format that allows you to freely use them in PowerPoint or other presentations. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.Format: Windows CD-ROM Key stage: 3, 4Age range: 11-16+
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plcDISC 1: Covers the following topics: the Working Environment, Personal Hygiene, First Aid. DISC 2: Covers the following topics: HACCP, Management Training, Management Control, Food Legislation. Each disc is supplied in a double CD-ROM pack, one contains high quality content, ready structured including high quality 3D animations, music, narration, range of interactive tests, quizzes, games, other activities; the second contains all animations, images, sound & text files in format that allows you to freely use them in PowerPoint or other presentations. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.Format: Windows CD-ROM Key stage: 3, 4Age range: 11-16+
