This Licence to Cook practical session allows students to learn how to use the grill safely, as well as handling and preparing a range of ingredients. During the session, students will make either a croque-monsieur or pizza toast.

These recipes help to consolidate the safe use of a knife, as well as...

This Licence to Cook practical session allows students to build confidence in using the hob. Although the hob may have been used before, this session concentrates on its safe use. In addition, it consolidates knife skills through the preparation of a variety of different vegetables. During this session, students...

During this Licence to cook practical session, students make courgette and cheese muffins, fruit muffins or mini fruit cakes. These recipes demonstrate combining ingredients (with the all-in-one method), accurate weighing and measuring and using the oven.

Writing frames are provided for students to record...

During this Licence to Cook practical session, students make apple and sultana crumble or vegetable crumble. These recipes allow students to practice weighing and measuring, rubbing-in, preparation of fillings, layering ingredients and baking.

Writing frames are provided for students to record their own...

This Licence to Cook practical session extends the rubbing in technique so that students learn to form and shape the rubbed-in dough. This additional dimension is a progression from Cooking Session 6, Creative Crumbles, as students will need to carefully control the amount of liquid added to the mixture to prevent...

This Licence to Cook practical session is about creating a deli-style salad using a range of different ingredients. Students are presented with the opportunity to cook a range of starchy foods, whilst simultaneously preparing other ingredients for their salad.

The aim of the session is to improve students’...

In this Licence to Cook practical session students make a savoury sauce and combine it with pasta to make a simple dish. Students start to prepare and cook items simultaneously, learning about timing and kitchen organisation.

Key skills include weighing and measuring, use of the hob (boiling, simmering),...

This Licence to Cook practical session introduces students to the safe use of the oven, as well as consolidating the use of other pieces of equipment. During this session, students make either fruity flapjacks or tropical granola bars. These recipes have been chosen as they use the oven and/or the hob and require...

In this activity students will design a kit for the first Moon-based football team. They will discuss the problems associated with playing football on the Moon, then will then sketch and label their design idea for a football kit that can be used to play football on the Moon. Students can self or peer-assess their...

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), requires students to design a magnetic tool holder for a robot surgeon.

It is intended that students will:
• Appreciate the potential of...

In this challenge, students are asked to consider the impact of people suffering from heart conditions, both to the individual and to wider society. They then generate ideas for using programmable systems to improve people’s health, and to monitor themselves. A video introduces the idea of a heart rate monitor, and...

Using the micro:bit, learners will create a prototype score counter. Learners must ensure the product is accurate, well...

In this activity, aimed at secondary-aged pupils, the students will design a new carriage that is powered by electricity for the King’s coronation. They will consider the design brief and criteria for the carriage before sketching and...

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to how we see communications developing to help others.

The resource is designed so that students will:

In this activity pupils will design a meal for King Charles III using only organic ingredients. They will consider the design brief and criteria for the meal before sketching and annotating an idea to meet the given requirements. 

This activity could be used as a main lesson activity to teach about the...