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Welcome teachers! This is
the website that you can use in schools for units on nutrition to create an
extra learning tool for your students. This web-based material contains
information for both teachers and students and provides a structure for two complete
lessons. This site was designed to build on prior classroom knowledge
and provide further learning activities and teaching methods regarding healthy
eating.
The teachers page aims to
connect the website with the 'Food For Life' unit and outline how to use this
resource. The nature of the subject matter on this website is to support already
acquired knowledge of nutrition and encourage students to recall, apply
and build on prior learning. The student activities were designed to reflect
early stages of a nutritional unit, with this resource being implemented
appropriately amongst content. The 'Food For Life' unit features the use of this
resource mid-unit, reason that specific content can already have taken place
prior to these activities.
| Here teachers can use links
to relevant sites with nutritional information and provide further ideas for
lessons in the classroom and online. For helpful
sites and related resources enter the Hot Links! page. Click
on Mr Watermelon to enter |
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This site features
activities with accompanying worksheets that students can participate in to
broaden their nutrition knowledge. This teachers page provides an explanation,
justification of the activities, their relevance to the unit and guidelines for their
completion. Click on the image for information about the student activities. |
THE
'FOOD FOR LIFE' UNIT
Unit
Outcomes
Students will be
able to make informed decisions about food and dietary practices
Students will be
able to explain the relationship between nutrition, health and physical
performance
Syllabus
Outcomes
5.4 A
student adapts and applies decision making processes and justifies their choices
in increasingly demanding
contexts
5.12
A student evaluates factors that influence health issues impacting on young
people
5.13
A student develops and applies strategies to enhance personal and community
health and
safety
5.14
A student critically analyses information, products and services to promote
health
Lesson
Program
| LESSON
1 |
INTRODUCTION
Revise
stage 4 Nutrition unit: why do we need food?, influences on food choices,
healthy eating, dietary guidelines, food and health
'Food
Pyramid Fun' relates
to this lesson |
| LESSON
2 |
FOOD AS
NUTRITION
How the body uses food,
nutrients in food, balanced
diets |
| LESSON
3 |
NUTRITIONAL
VALUE OF FOODS
Evaluating nutritional
information
'Drive Through Diet'
relates to this lesson |
| LESSON
4 |
FOOD FOR ACTIVE
ME: FOOD AS ENERGY
Energy value of foods.
energy requirements for activity, energy balances, nutritional needs of
athletes
'Health Tools'
relates to this lesson |
| LESSON
5 |
INDIVIDUAL
DIETARY NEEDS
Decisions relating to
dietary needs and food choices, adolescent dietary practices, dietary
planning, what does my body need?, dietary needs through
lifespan
'Health Tools'
and 'Drive
Through Diet' relate
to this lesson |
| LESSON
6 |
COMPUTER LAB
Nutrition 'Food For Life'
online |
| LESSON
7 |
COMPUTER LAB
Nutrition 'Food For Life'
online |
| LESSON
8 |
DIET RELATED
HEALTH PROBLEMS
Review and discussion of
lessons 6 and 7, diet related health problems, relationship between diet
and health, changing the nutrition behaviours of
Australians
'Health Research'
relates to this lesson |
| LESSON
9 |
WHAT'S FOR
DINNER?
Meal planning and
preparation. nutrition myths, fads and
fallacies
'Topic Review'
relates to this lesson |
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