Food Bug Club
Food Bug Club is continuing to promote The Food Safety Challenge and MicroTrumps online with thanks to additional funding from the All Saints Educational Trust www.aset.org.uk.
We will be using the money to continue supporting local schools with visits and schools nationally through the continued development of the Food Bug Club website and resources.
Do you have any ideas of resources that you would like to see on Food Bug Club?
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At the Food Bug Club we are continuing to promote The Food Safety Challenge. Whilst our research is complete and the results being written up, we are still able to offer The Food Safety Challenge for schools to use.
Hundreds of children have taken The Food Safety Challenge – here’s what some of their teachers said:
“The pupils loved the session and gained knowledge of food safety that they will then use during the course. It was enjoyable and informative for me too!”
“My Year 10 students found the session particularly useful as it highlighted to them the importance of food hygiene and safety within the kitchen. The students were able to identify the hazards within a kitchen environment through the clicking challenge and were surprised by what they missed.”
“As a teacher, it was an invaluable tool to identify which areas of the GCSE specification need revisiting and to continue to emphasise the importance of food hygiene.”
“The students really enjoyed the lesson and the variety of activities. It was both fun and educational. The students commented really enjoyed the click challenge on the computer.”
Why not get your year 7-11 students to take part?
Whilst you are in Food Bug Club, why not have a go at MicroTrumps online? There are two games, playable individually or in a group session, which help students learn about foodborne microorganisms, the problems that they cause and how the health risks they pose can be reduced.
Food Bug Club has been developed by The University of Manchester in association with partners Chilled Education and the Food Teachers Centre.
The site brings together inspiring (free!) food safety classroom resources for food and science teachers as well as providing a platform for new material as it is developed.
At Food Bug Club you’ll find:
The Food Safety Challenge –
We want as many year 7-11 students to take part as possible!
MicroTrumps Online
The innovative MicroTrumps cards, developed by Chilled Education, now form the basis of two imaginative online games developed by the University of Manchester.
These games, playable individually or in a group session, help students learn about foodborne microorganisms, the problems that they cause and how the health risks they pose can be reduced.
Food Bug Club has been created with an Impact Accelerator Award from the ESRC, developing research undertaken within the Enigma project www.enigmaproject.org.uk.