Tasts Buds – Safe Food

The Safe Food website offer a collection of interactive presentations and activities on the origins of food, food safety and healthiness. There are 8 interactive sessions in all covering the food and nutrition element of the SPHE program. Each of the sessions consists of classroom slides, extension activities, teacher’s notes and homework suggestions. It is aimed at 8-10 year olds so I suppose could be used from 2nd class up to 5th. The positive messages that will be taken from the activities are about eating healthy food and living a healthy lifestyle.

Safety in the Home

This is a great interactive website about safety in the home, probably geared more at the younger classes. It’s bright, colourful and has some great sound effects. The website can be directly applied to the ‘Safety and Protection’ strand of the SPHE curriculum. It goes through safety in all areas of the home – kitchen, living room, the bedroom and the garden. It also shows children what to do in the event of a fire in the house. It’s a great opportunity to make your SPHE lessons come alive on the whiteboard, because I know from personal experience there are not too many chances to do so.