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====*You may like to send home a letter to the parents double checking for children's food allergies, you might want to ask for 5 parent helpers and for a fee of $3.00-$5.00 per student to help out with cost of this task.====

** Lesson 1: **
====Introduce the task and end result of to the students and explain that it will be developed over a series of lessons. In the lesson rotate the class from researching on the computers and researching through books. Devote that entire lesson on researching. You may want to give them some paper to write notes on what they find. You can use the suggested sites to give to the students or create a diigo site so the students won't come across any unwanted search results.====

You also need to provide your students with a notebook, as a healthy food journal. They will use this journal to reflect, note take and plan their presentation though out the task.
====*Some things to encourage your students to be thinking whilst researching; What kinds of food do I enjoy eating? Are they healthy? Could I bring this to school in my lunch box? Will the food meet my nutritional needs? Do I need to alter recipes to cater for any allergies for example: if you are allergic to nuts and the recipe requires nuts what could we use instead?====

** Lesson 2: **
====Divide the class into groups of two to three and allow them time to discuss their research. During this lesson they need to create a recipe, write it down and draw a picture of what it will look like. You can use this to give to your students as a checklist, to make sure they are completing each step.====

====The students need to type up their recipes and scan their drawings of their meals onto the computer to attach to their recipe. They will also use this time for creating their poster to present to the class. They can be as creative as they like. Write it up on a nice coloured card with coloured drawings of the ingredients needed etc. They can also write some dot points on what they will talk about during their presentation if it will help them. You can use this for your students to write their drafts or as a guide when typing up their recipe.====

====In this lesson the students can present their recipes to their peers. In their presentations the students need to talk about the ingredients required for their recipe, how to make it and why it is healthy. You may need to spread this over two lessons depending on time structure.====

====*At the end of all the presentations the students will vote (using an anonymous voting system.) The highest voted for recipe/presentation will be the recipe that the whole class will make.You can use this for your students to write their votes on.====

====Entirely for the students to cook the voted for recipe, this lesson should be before the students lunch time so they can eat the cooked meal for lunch. During this lesson take photos of the students cooking. You may even like to let the students take photos of each other in between cooking.====

====*Once they have all typed up their recipes with photo attached they need to print them off and give them to you. You can then make multiple copies (enough for each student to take a copy home and a hard copy for you) and have them laminated.====

** Some possible extensions: **
====You can then advertise the cook books in the school news letter and through word of mouth as a fundraising item, parents can purchase a copy and the money can go towards the schools resources. It is up to you how much to price them at, go on the amount of recipes, and if the recipes are unique or ordinary. I would be looking at say $5 for an average cook book and $10 for an outstanding one.====