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Develops Cookery, Nutrition, Healthy-eating, Safety, Catering and Manual Skills
Captain Cook's Tuck Box aims to get children cooking (and eating) nutritious food. Teachers love the way it saves time and makes budding cooks anticipate their next lesson as much as their hungry tums do. For parents it's a mouth-watering way to make food preparation safe, educational and fun.
Captain Cook's Tuck Box includes 208 recipes, some child-designed (e.g. Hotch Potch, Worm Pie, Caterpillar Salad and 'Dog' Biscuits), and some based on government recommendations for secondary schools. There are also ideas for national and religious festivals, ready-to-use cookery books, a talking health genie who provides tips on balanced diets and snacks, and even an (optional) animated joke-telling 'parrot'. The Cookbook section has Beginners, Junior and Senior options with printable, illustrated recipes. The Recipes section lets you browse them with Health and Safety pop-ups, teaching tips and a built-in cooking timer - there are even 15 graduated recipes to teach basic cookery skills. Menus introduces food combinations with a tool for designing party and special occasion menus, plus a useful search engine/filtering system - ideal for linked work in ICT. A well thought out Library offers food and culinary dictionaries, good-food guides, menu guides, health and hygiene advice, and videos.
Captain Cook's Tuck Box is easy to install, networkable, and perfect for interactive whiteboards. It comes with configuration options (e.g. sound off and alternative colour schemes), pupil tracking and downloadable lesson plans. It's the only cooking software written specially for British homes and schools - so easy even an adult can use it!
- Combats obesity and illness by helping children eat more fruit, veg. and fibre
- Explains why fresh food is best, nutrition, food safety and hygiene
- Enhances the quality of the community's lives
- Helps build relationships by encouraging familes to eat together
- Supports cross-curricular work in reading, writing and ICT
- Automatically calculates ingredient quantities for any class size
- Complements 'Eat Smart, Play Smart' and '5 a Day the Bash Street Way'
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- CD and Licence
- 208 graded recipes of which 95 promote healthy eating
- 32 videos, Help screens and pupil tracking facilities
- Three ready-to-use cookery books and a booklet on how to start a Cookery Club
- Menu designer, progress certificates, food jokes, built-in search engine
- Downloadable primary and secondary lesson plans
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"Captain Cook’s Tuck Box is a fantastic resource to support teaching in a range of subject areas including Design and Technology, Literacy, Maths, Science and ICT. I have found it simple enough for young children to navigate but with enough content to satisfy those in KS2. Children enjoy being able to make their own healthy eating menus and the videos of children cooking enable them to realise they too can be cooks!" (Sarah Saleh, Advanced Skills Teacher, Surrey)
"My 12 year old daughter who is very interested in cooking … enjoyed… producing some menus which would make Jamie Oliver proud! The program could … be used effectively with KS3 students as it kept her attention for many hours..." (Reviewer, SchoolZone) Click here for more...
"Obese children are more likely to become obese adults and this will have serious implications for future levels of heart disease. We must all play our part to stop this happening." (Peter Hollins, Chief Executive, British Heart Foundation)
"I really like Captain Cook's Tuck Box because of the wide range of recipes for each key stage. I also like the photos as I always prefer recipes when you can see what the end result should be! Maisie (7) loved looking through the recipes and she chose three different ones to try with me. She likes looking at the pictures and the fact that they are for her age and ability. Ben (11) and my husband Steve cooked Lamb Bhuna together which was very successful. Ben said he liked cooking a proper meal and they both agreed that the instructions are simple, clear and easy to follow. I'm looking forward to them trying some more!" (Anne Geers, parent, Tetbury)
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- Windows NT, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
- Mouse and/or keyboard
- 500+ MHz processor, 256B RAM, 480 MB hard disc space,
- Colour printer and sound system recommended
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D & T, ICT, PSHE - KS1-3.
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The parrot offers helpful tips - hide or move it if you wish.
Pick a recipe or type in your own. Big buttons and large print are easy on young eyes.
Design a menu, then print it out.
Videos illustrate key skills.
Logs children’s progress.
Prints progress records and motivating certificates
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