Resources for schools and early learning services

Discover our range of free, downloadable resources for schools, early learning services and whānau. From lesson plans and hands-on cooking skills, to guides on nutrition and physical activity, everything is designed to support you in helping children to make healthy choices.

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  • Processing changes the properties of food

    This lesson builds on the Food groups activity. Through inquiry-based learning, ākonga explore what food processing is and how it changes food. They begin to think critically about what has been added to or removed from foods during processing and consider the reasons why these changes are made.

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  • Salternatives poster from the Heart Foundation Pacific Heartbeat showing healthy low-salt flavour alternatives including fresh chilli, fresh herbs, citrus fruit, garlic, vinegar, dried herbs, ginger, olive oil and spices to reduce salt for heart health
    Salternatives

    Re-train your taste buds to enjoy less salt by substituting it with one or more of these options when you are preparing and cooking food.

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  • How processing changes food

    Large amounts of the kai we eat is processed. Processing makes kai available to us even after the harvest season has passed. It can also make kai taste better and safer to eat.

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  • An activity sheet for early learning on where the food comes from.
    Activity: Where does our food come from?

    We often purchase kai without knowing where it has come from. This learning activity is designed to get tamariki to start thinking about sources of the foods they eat.

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  • Teacher sitting at the front of a classroom holding a paper cut-out of an apple, with one hand raised, engaging with a group of young children. Several children, seated on the floor and facing the teacher, are raising their hands enthusiastically. Behind
    Lesson 8 - Food processing

    A large amount of the kai we eat is processed. Show ākonga how kai from everyday ingredients are changed by processing with the morphing kai activity.

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  • An educator's resource to help talk about food with the tamariki in your whānau.
    How to talk about food

    This resource will support you to reframe the way you talk about food with the tamariki in your whānau.

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  • An educator's resource highlighting the benefits to children as young as 6 months drinking from an open cup, rather than a sippy cup or bottle.
    Drinking from an open cup

    There are many benefits to children as young as 6 months drinking from an open cup, rather than a sippy cup or bottle.

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  • A resource to encourage little ones to gain confidence with cutlery.
    Self-feeding

    Explore more about how to encourage little ones to gain confidence with cutlery.

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  • Children engaged in art project at school.
    Lesson 7 - How kai makes me feel

    What and how much we eat affects the way our bodies function and feel. Encourage your ākonga to identify levels of fullness and then create emojis in relation to how different kai make them feel.

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  • Child's hands holding a flashcard labeled 'strawberry', surrounded by other flashcards with names of fruits including apple, pear, orange, watermelon, cherry, melon, and banana, on a white background with fresh strawberries placed to the side.
    Lesson 6 - Te reo Māori food vocabulary

    Gather your dictionary detectives to learn the te reo Māori words for different kai. Extend the learning by asking ākonga to find the translations to the kai in a language spoken at home or of interest.

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  • Teacher working with a group of four young children gathered around a table, helping them with a writing activity in an open, bright classroom.
    Lesson 5 - Kai and your body

    We can link different types of kai to how they help our bodies work properly. In this lesson, ākonga learn about different kai groups using a card-sorting activity, then help Sam by matching kai cards to the body parts they support.

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  • Group of children and a young woman planting saplings in a sunny outdoor park, participating in a tree-planting activity
    Lesson 4 - Seasonal kai

    Kai needs the right weather conditions to grow. Ākonga can familiarise themselves with foods available from chilly takurua to sunny raumati in this word search. Then test the class learning with the kai sorting by seasonal availability.

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