British Meat Education Service
A dedicated educational website packed with free interactive programmes for students, downloadable teaching materials and an online catalogue of other free video and print resources for food teachers. The BMES has supported the teaching of food for 15 years and has developed a considerable range of classroom materials widely used by teachers.British Nutrition Foundation
The education section of the BNF includes food posters and guidance on A-level and Scottish food technology syllabi. The A-level section also has an excellent list of links and the information on different foodstuffs would be very useful in the classroom. Dole 5 a Day
Site encouraging visitors to obtain their five portions of fruit and vegetable each day. The encyclopaedia, story books, songs ('Jammin' 5 A Day') and colouring book are all absorbing, and would probably entertain KS2 pupils. Cracking Eggs
Excellent resources and activities for all key stages. Food Standards Agency
A rather dull government site that sets out the steps taken to make British food safer in the wake of the BSE, food poisoning and GM food scares. Likely to be useful for A-level projects on food safety topics, but understandably too detailed for earlier key stages. Institute of Food Science and Technology
Explains the work of the Institute, which exists to further the study of food science and help practitioners to work together. Buried deep within the site is the Schools section, which has a series of suggested experiments and links for projects. Seafish Education Site
The Seafish site, which is run by the EC Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance, no less, has plenty of classroom resources for KS2-4, including the Seafish Story and Talking Fish. Comprehensive and fun. Foodlink
Foodfitness
Foodfuture
All three of these sites are produced by the FDF, and all offer balanced and intelligent perspectives on food safety (Foodlink), healthy eating (Foodfitness) and the GM debate (Foodfuture). The presentation is attractive but browser friendly, and the content of all the sites is of a high quality - articles responding to Prince Charles' ten questions on GM food and graphical representations of food poisoning statistics are just two items which could form a basis for extended work in the classroom.
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