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Develops Cookery, Nutrition, Healthy-eating, Safety, Catering, Hospitality 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 around 200 child-designed (and munched) recipes (e.g. Hotch Potch, Worm Pie, Caterpillar Salad and ‘Dog’ Biscuits), 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 but very Suitable for Australia as well - so easy even an adult can use it!
- Combats obesity and associated illnesses by helping children move from fast food/sweets to 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
Supplied with:
- CD and Licence
- Around 200 recipes to 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
System requirements
- Windows NT, ME, 2000, XP (Vista imminent)
- Mouse and/or keyboard
- 500+ MHz processor, 256B RAM, 480 MB hard disc space,
- colour printer and sound system recommended
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