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This innovative, educational platform helps you expand your knowledge and feed your children’s curiosity. Designed and developed by experts, the Academy offers a reliable source for gaining insight into issues related to food and nutrition through videos, themed worksheets and much more.

Take advantage of an invaluable tool and find out everything about nutrition

This innovative, educational platform helps you expand your knowledge and feed your children’s curiosity. Designed and developed by experts, the Academy offers a reliable source for gaining insight into issues related to food and nutrition through videos, themed worksheets and much more. For some fun family time, why not take part in our intergenerational quizzes?

Food and the 5 senses

What role do our 5 senses play in our perception of the food we eat?

Food and nutrients

A varied and balanced diet. What does it mean? What is the role of the nutrients found in our food?

Processing food

Why do we need to process food before eating it? Understanding food labels.

The digestive system

A trip inside the digestive tract!

Ecology and food economy

Understanding the economic and environmental implications of producing food.

Eating, moving and growing

Why do we need food? How can we get all we need to run, play and feel good?

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Games, quizzes and challenges make learning fun! Win and collect dozens of badges and show off your best level. Are you ready? Let’s go!

The more you play, the more you learn!

Games, quizzes and challenges make learning fun! Win and collect dozens of badges and show off your best level. Are you ready? Let’s go!

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Food and the 5 senses

Sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste... How do we use our 5 senses when we eat?

Food and nutrients

Food groups, nutrients... What are they for? Why should we eat a balanced and varied diet?

Processing food

How is food prepared and preserved? How can we make sense of food labels?

The digestive system

What are the secrets of the digestive tract? Set off on a great adventure now!

Ecology and food economy

How do we produce the food we eat? What impact does that have on the planet?

Eating, moving and growing

Why do we need food? How can we get all we need to run, play and feel good?

This innovative platform, a perfect mix between theory and practical activities, helps enrich your study programme and make your lessons come alive! The Academy invites you to discover its MOOCs platform comprising videos, activities, educational worksheets and much more...

An opportunity for a real educational partnership

This innovative platform, a perfect mix between theory and practical activities, helps enrich your study programme and make your lessons come alive! Fully aligned with Swiss and French school curricula, the Academy invites you to discover its MOOCs platform comprising videos, activities, educational worksheets and much more... Plus, if you wish to go even further, the tests and quizzes will help you keep track of your pupils’ progress.

Food and the 5 senses

What role do our 5 senses play in our perception of the food we eat?

Food and nutrients

A varied and balanced diet. What does it mean? What is the role of the nutrients found in our food?

Processing food

Why do we need to process food before eating it? Understanding food labels.

The digestive system

Digestion: The journey of food in the digestive tract!

Ecology and food economy

Understanding the economic and environmental implications of producing food

Eating, moving and growing

Why do we need food? How can we get all we need to run, play and feel good?

My Academy account

Save lessons, keep track of pupils’ progress, discover ingenious content and many other great features.

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Food and the 5 senses

Smell and taste

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Lessons in this course

Odours and aromas - what's the difference?

Olfactory perception

Four... or more tastes?

Overview

Discover how your mouth and nose identify the tastes, odours and aromas of everything you eat!

Objective

Understanding how the senses tell us about the chemical properties of food
Differentiating between ‘odour and ‘aroma’
Recognising the five basic tastes
Discovering trigeminal sensations.

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Course Plan

Lesson 1Odours and aromas - what's the difference?

Lesson 2Olfactory perception

Lesson 3Taste buds

Lesson 4Four... or more tastes?

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