Year 10 Food Technology

Year 10 Food Technology explores a variety of cuisines and the influences of the ingredients that are available locally or globally. Students begin to appreciate the impacts the locally produced products have on the environment and how food production is impact food security across the globe. They study the increasing community concerns about food issues, including the nutritional quality of food and the environmental impact of food manufacturing processes. Students begin understanding the importance of a variety of foods, sound nutrition principles and food preparation skills when making food decisions to help better prepare them for their future lives. 

Weekly class structure:

• 1 x double practical cooking class

• 1 x double + 1 x single theory class

Semester 1 - Past, present and future

Do you love trying foods from different countries? Do you want to build your love for food? Do you have a passion to help create a healthier planet?

Students look at the varied cuisine that has influenced the colonization of Australia. Students study a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture and region. Each cuisine involves food preparation in a particular style, of food to produce individually consumed items or distinct meals. Students study varied cuisine and the influences of the ingredients that are available locally or globally. Students begin to appreciate the impacts the locally produced products have on the environment and how food production is impact food security across the globe.

Semester 2 - Food and Wellbeing

Do you want to learn how to cook nutritious foods? Do you want to create new ideas for healthy snacks? Lunchboxes? Do you love trying new foods?

This unit investigates the increasing community concerns about food issues, including the nutritional quality of food and the environmental impact of food manufacturing processes. Students begin understanding the importance of a variety of foods, sound nutrition principles and food preparation skills when making food decisions to help better prepare them for their future lives. Students progressively develop knowledge and understanding about the nature of food and food safety, and how to make informed and appropriate food preparation choices when experimenting with and preparing food in a sustainable manner. Within the unit students develop their knowledge of food specialisations technologies includes the application of nutrition principles and about the characteristics and properties of food to food selection and preparation; and contemporary technology-related food issues.