Description
A fun and engaging sensory activity to help students connect sensory properties to foods.
This resource was created to help life skills students describe the sensory properties of food items. This task allows students to examine a range of foods provided by the teacher. Students then describe them according to their sensory experience.
Students have the opportunity to draw and annotate these products to help develop critical and creative thinking skills. There is a word bank included to inspire students and introduce them to descriptive words that can be applied to the senses.
This resource can be extended and/or differentiated at the teachers’ discretion to meet the individual needs of their students.
Please note – The students do not eat these foods they will just be predicting taste or recalling taste from a previous experience unless instructed otherwise by the teacher.
Includes:
- 3-page Student activity
- 1-page Teacher instruction sheet
File Type: PDF (Acrobat) Document File
Relevant to:
Food Technology Years 7-10 Syllabus – Stage 5 Life Skills
OUTCOMES:
- recognises the relationship between food properties, preparation and processing FTLS-2
DOT POINTS:
Students Learn About:
- use their senses to identify properties of common foods, for example:
- texture, eg crisp carrots
- odour, eg sour milk, sweet strawberries
- colour, eg overripe bananas
- taste, eg sour lemons
- touch, eg the firmness of ripe fruit and vegetables
FOOD TECHNOLOGY STAGE 6 SYLLABUS (2013)
OUTCOMES:
P2.2 identifies and explains the sensory characteristics and functional properties of food
DOT POINTS:
Sensory characteristics of food
- sensory characteristics of foods, including appearance, odour, taste (flavour) and texture (mouth feel)
- sensory assessment of a variety of foods
Steps in food product development
- testing product prototype, eg sensory evaluation, consumer testing, packaging tests, storage trials
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