Which fruits would be good in your salad?

The big task is for each group to design and make a bowl of fruit salad to share with the other children in the class. The look, feel and taste of the fruit salad should match the requirements of the group as revealed by their own research and recorded in their specification.

These are reports on activities taken by schools around the country. You can download the activities as acrobat files from the resources section

'The best fruit salad in the world' (December 14, 2007)

The unit was carried out over a week with all the lessons relevant to the topic; we read books, sorted and counted fruit, etc. the work laid out in the D&T plans.

Read the report

Immersion experience gives great fruit salads (April 10, 2006)

Children in Year 1 went shopping to buy their favourite fruits. Read the report (22 November 2001).