Victoria’s favourite Food and Technology series is back!

The same winning author team has revised the market leading e-food series with new VELS content, VELS assessment tasks, a focus on design briefs, brand new content and a new design which includes stunning food photography and food styling. Step-by-step photography adds a new level of pedagogical sophistication and helps students to master kitchen and recipe skills. Book 1 is a two-year book for Years 7 and 8 students tailored specifically to Level 5 VELS.

Title overview (PDF)

• VELS activities and assessment tasks linked to VELS
• Photo of every finished recipe by professional food photographer and food stylist
• Every recipe tried and tested in professional kitchen
• Recipe shortcuts, design options and recipe variations
• More ‘Let’s Remember’ and ‘Let’s Investigate’ questions

Section 1: Ready, Set, Go

1 Let’s start with design

2 Discover food technology

3 Decisions! Decisions! Deciding what to eat

4 Supermodels: Discover healthy eating models

Section 2: Cereals, Bread, Rice, Pasta and Noodles

5 Let’s get cereals: Discover grains

6 D’oh! Discover bread

7 On the boil: Discover rice

8 Fiddlesticks, chopsticks: Discover pasta and noodles

Section 3: Vegetables and Legumes

9 Veg out: Discover vegetables

10 Bean there, done that!: Discover legumes

Section 4: Fruit

11 Frrrruit!: Discover fruit

Section 5: Milk, yoghurt and cheese

12 Milk it!: Discover milk

13 Need a little culture?: Discover yoghurt

14 Say cheese: Discover cheese

Section 6: Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts and legumes

15 Steak your claim: Discover meat

16 Sounds fishy: Discover seafood

17 One for the birds: Discover poultry

18 Egged on: Discover eggs

19 Going nuts: Discover nuts

20 Pulses rising: Discover vegetarians

Section 7: Water

21 Water works!: Discover Water

Section 8: Eat in small amounts

22 Fat is not a four letter word: Discover fats

23 Sweet: Discover sugar

24 Salt of the Earth: Discover salt

Leanne Compton and Carol Warren have both been experienced teachers, widely published authors and heads of two successful Home Economics teacher associations. Carol and Leanne bring their years of experience, their passion for food education and their sense of humour and knowledge of what works in the classroom to the new editions of the e-Food & Technology series. Leanne and Carol’s dedication to food education has helped to cement e-Food & Technology as one of Victoria’s favourite Food and Technology textbook series.      

FREE SAMPLE teaching and learning resources

Sample pages: Contents and introduction (pdf 604KB)
Sample pages: Chapter 8 (pdf 1.3MB)
Recipe sheets (doc 60KB)
Shopping lists (doc 44KB)
Worksheets (doc 180KB)
Worksheet answers (doc 40KB)
Assessment task rubrics (doc 60KB)
Assessment task worksheets (doc 80KB)
Assessment task VELS chart (doc 40KB)
Practivities (doc 40KB)
Chapter tests (doc 52KB)
Chapter test answers (doc 44KB)
Download all sample resources (zip 1.4MB)

Full suite of teaching and learning resources

e-Food & Technology Book 1 is supported by over 400 pages of free, password protected, teaching, learning and assessment resources. If e-Food & Technology Book 1 is on your booklist or you have purchased a full class set you are invited to access this material. If you require a password, contact your sales representative or send an email to: salesec.au@oup.com to receive your password.
 

Sample pages: Contents and introduction (pdf 604KB)
Sample pages: Chapter 8 (pdf 1.3MB)