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Title Publisher Price

Food for a PC-V6 for Australian and NZ schools

Kimber Nutritional Software

Post orders to: Kimber Nutritional Software, 6 Glamis Court, Croydon, Vic 3136
Orders by Tel: (03) 9725-4325 Fax: (03) 9725-3696
or Email: sales@lynx-linnet.com

$60 inc GST
single user
$140 inc GST
multi-user
No longer available in the UK. Designed by teachers for teachers who are seeking a nutritional database to run on either a stand-alone PC or a network of PC's. Food for a PC-V6 is supplied as Microsoft Excel file. Includes food product label facility, product costing, sensory analysis, a traffic light system to highlight unhealthy levels of fat, salt, Kilojoules and low levels of fibre, and a simple facility to add own food data. Uses up-to-date and respected data from FSANZ and HMSO.

The Nutrition Program

Jenny Ridgwell

 

Enquiries Tel: 01536 399017 or orders@nutritionprogram.co.uk www.nutritionprogram.co.uk

See website for pricing options
Flexible and easy-to-use nutritional analysis programme, includes food labelling facility, recipe costing - suitable for KS3&4 and post-16.

Nutrients V2

Nutrients software

Nutrients Software are Margaret and Keith Vernon who can be contacted on E:info@nutrientssoftware.co.uk

Further information and ordering is available on their website:
www.nutrientssoftware.co.uk

 

Full version £125.00 for
multi-user licence

Upgrade from V1 for £75

A recently updated version of the popular Nutrients programme - simple to use from KS3 upwards. Additional features include labelling facility, an investigate feature, nutrition worksheets and information sheets. Free demo may be downloaded from the site. Designed for education purposes by teachers. An excellent value for money programme.

Creative Learning Solutions

Food Safety Interactive programme


Tel: 01803 842317 Fax: 0845 456 2160 www.clsolutions.co.uk/contact.php
Individual licence £25 Multi-user licence £149.90 + VAT & P&P

Modular programme in basic food safety and hygiene. An interactive e-learning programme that takes students through 10 modules. The new programme meets all the training material requirements at Level 1 Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene and the Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering. A flexible resource, well-strutured and motivational.

A Food and Nutrition cd-rom is also available.


Birchfield Lesson Kits

Birchfield

Details and contact available @ www.birchfield.co.uk Titles are about £150 each + VAT for multi-user licence www.birchfield.co.uk discounts available on the site.
Birchfield produce a range of food technology titles on CD-ROM including: Contamination of Food; Safe Working Environment; Labelling; Packaging; Keeping Food safe; Functional properties of Food - these build into Lesson Kits.

CAD/CAM in Practice

D&T Association

D&T Association on 01789 470007 £29.38 (inc VAT)

Supports the CAD/CAM in Schools Initiative, from DATA/DfES. Contains units of work illustrating the use of CAD/CAM in all materials areas of D&T, KS3- post-16. For food this includes packaging and production flow-chart templates and a library of food components for use in product design work (for the latter only you also need the Pro-desktop software - see www.data.org.uk which may already be used in your school.)


Behind the Scenes

D&T Association

D&T Association on 01789 470007 £41.13
(inc VAT)

Virtual look behind the scenes in a food factory. Students undertake a guided tour of the factory and interact with unit operations and processes along the way. An informative and fun resource for KS4.


Boardworks Content for Whiteboards

Boardworks

Tel: 08703 50 55 60
Email: support@theboardworks.co.uk www.theboardworks.co.uk

KS3 materials £199
KS4 materials £249
There are saving to be made if a department is purchasing the whole suite of D&T materials.

This company produces educational content for all curriculum areas for use on whiteboards (interactive whiteboards and projectors). These whole class resources include interactivities, animations, photos and video, starter and plenary activities. They are focused on the QCA schemes of work at KS3 and the GCSE specifications at KS4.


Deco Designer Cake
Decorating software

Information from 01892 837788 or on www.decoent.com

free to download the software, plus educational starter kit prices available

Deco are offering schools free cake decorating software that can be downloaded from their site. If, after trying it, you want to set it up to run in your school there are a number of educational price starter kits to choose from.Provides a good hands-on experience that helps students to get to grips with an aspect of CAD/CAM through the simulation of industrial practices.



Bright ideas

D&T Association

D&T Association on 01789 470007 or www.data.org.uk

Members: £41.12 per cd-rom or £105.75 for the set of three

Non-members: £47 per cd-rom or £123.37 for the set of three

A set of cd-roms supporting the teaching of KS3 designing skills. Ready to use in Microsoft PowerPoint each cd-rom contains four projects with over 16 activities - ideal for starters and plenaries. The first 2cd-roms are now available for Y7 and Y8.