Captain Cook's Tuck Box
Publisher: Topologika Software Ltd
Develops 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-ROM
Key stage: 1,2, 3
Age range: 5-13
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Food and Fitness
Publisher: AVP
Collection of easily printed worksheets on disk on the following subjects: Food, Energy, Measurements and Requirements, Testing for Starch, Sugars, Testing for Vitamin C, Respiration, Enzymes, Absorption of Food, Fruit, Fats, Dietary Fibre, Energy Balance, Fitness, Exercise, Food for Sport, Measuring Physical Performance, Malnutrition.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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Food Technology
Publisher: AVP
Collection of easily printed worksheets on the following subjects: Bacteria, Food Poisoning, Moulds, Yeast, Microbes, Fungi, Penicillin, Beer, Wine, Bread and Marmite, Fermentation, Cheese, Delaying Decay, Disinfectant, Testing Milk for Microbes, Preserving, Chilling, Freezing, Irradiated Food, Canning, Shelf Life, Adding Colour to Food, Fruit and Vegetables, Salmonella, Lysteria, Botulism and BSE.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
Ref: SE02-COM1021
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Food Technology Series
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
FOOD & MENU NUTRIENT ANALYSER KS3-4: uses powerful database to analyse menus entered by student. Computer then produces analysis report, calculates real cost of developing the particular meal, giving full nutritional breakdown. Contains data and nutrient facts from full National Databank, most comprehensive database of food nutrients in UK. FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF FOOD KS4: gives insight into: functional properties of carbohydrates including, thickening effects of starch, use of sugar for formation of flavour, colour & caramelisation; how protein enables aeration & coagulation; use of emulsifiers & stabilisers in formation of stable emulsion; Colloid system & formation of foams, sols, other colloids; Food functions including aerating, thickening, glazing, bulking, setting, binding; How to create and adapt recipes to create desired effect within the final product. INTERACTIVE SENSORY ANALYSIS KS4: Includes introduction to Sensory Analysis, extensive glossary of related terms. Provides examples on how to carry out standard tests used within food industry. Provides worksheets for pupils to complete suggesting practical experiments to try in classroom. CONTAMINATION OF FOOD: covers the following topics: Bacteria, viruses and food poisoning, Fungi, Contamination from pests. DESIGNING A PACKAGE: invaluable software tool to complement Food Technology or Home Economics coursework, and devise coursework projects. Options to design nets & labels, from bank of images provided, or graphics can be imported. FOOD TECH 3D: contains hundreds of multiple choice questions on Food Technology, which feature in a series of imaginative 3D games that pupils will want to come back to time and time again. INTERACTIVE HACCP TRAINER: produced due to demand for an easy explanation of HACCP & its implementation. Looks at different food production techniques, defines processes ranging from defrosting foods to many different preparation and cooking methods. LABELLING: effective and thorough resource ideal for teaching the topic of labelling for KS4 food technology, also appropriate for Home Economics courses. Areas covered: Why do we need labelling? Advantages & disadvantages of labelling; effect of labelling on retailing; labelling information required by law; voluntary forms of labelling. PACKAGING: investigates this topic area extensively, also suitable fort Home Economics GCSE courses. Topics include: uses of food packaging; types of food packaging; technological developments; environmental influences; designing a package. Interactive Whiteboard compatible.
Format: Windows CD-ROM
Key stage: 3, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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Keeping Food Safe
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
Volume 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, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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Safe Working Environment
Publisher: Birchfield Interactive plc
DISC 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, 4
Age range: 11-16+
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