What
influences my diet?
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Learning Intentions
Pupils
are learning…
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Possible Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Activities
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…about factors that have an influence on
teenage food choices.
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Individually or in groups, brainstorm what influences
teenager’s food choices.
Possible factors could be:
- Lifestyle
- Media
- Likes/dislikes
- Fashion trends
- Peer influences
- Foreign influences
- Religion
- Availability
- Health issues
- Emotional state
- Time of day
Alternatively, a number of the above could be used as
the basis for questions in a Carousel Activity. For example:
- How do advertisements affect what you choose to eat?
- Do you make an effort to eat healthy foods? If yes,
what do you choose?
- What food do you like or dislike?
- What food is easy to get?
- How does the time of day affect what you eat?
- Do you eat the same kind of food as your friends?
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How does money impact on healthy
food choices?
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Learning Intentions
Pupils
are learning…
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Possible Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Activities
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…that the food available in school has an
impact on their food choice.
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Research recently has shown that there is a need for
changes in the food available to pupils in school (Jamie
Oliver’s ‘Feed Me Better’ campaign). You
could possibly refer to this campaign as a lead in to this unit of work.
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…to take personal responsibility for a role
within a group, looking at developing a new café.
Working With Others
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In groups pupils imagine how they could run a
café within the school environment. Use a Creative Matrix to
generate ideas, using the following headings:
- Type of food
- Target pupils
- Where / Method of delivery
Different roles are assigned within the team. Pupils
consider and develop the following:
- A name and slogan for the café.
- Aims of the café.
- Design of café and its facilities.
- Sample break and/or lunchtime menu(s) (possibly
different menus for different days).
- Costing of dishes/snacks. Teacher guidance may be
required here. This could be an ICT research task to find out the price
of different foods from different supermarket websites. Alternatively,
pupils could estimate the price of different foods with help of
teacher.
Opportunity to assess ICT
(design and/or research)
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How could we make our canteen
healthy, fun and value for money?
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Learning Intentions
Pupils
are learning …
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Possible Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Activities
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… to select, classify, compare and evaluate
information by carrying out research.
Managing Information
…to use a range of methods for collating, recording,
representing and communicating information with a sense of audience and
purpose.
Managing Information
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Pupils carry out market research among their peers to
find out the opinion of teenagers about the canteen in their school.
Possible questions:
- How would you rate the current school canteen menu?
- What are your likes and dislikes?
- Do you get value for money in the canteen?
- Would you make changes to your school canteen design?
- What facilities would you like to see in the school
canteen?
- What changes would you make to the menu?
If possible, this market research could be recorded
using a camcorder and the results analysed by the team before carrying
out the main points of the task.
Opportunity to
assess Using Mathematics
Using information from this market research, each team
could revisit their plans for a café and make any
adjustments that they feel would improve their plans.
They then present their revised plans to the rest of the
class.
Self and peer evaluation:
Groups select two good points about others’
presentations and one area of improvement for their own (variation of
Two Stars and a Wish).
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…to develop practical skills in the safe,
hygienic, healthy and creative use of foods to plan, prepare, cook and
serve dishes from their five day menu.
…to compare their approach with others and in
different contexts.
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In groups, pupils could plan, prepare, cook and serve a
selection of dishes from their team’s menu(s).
They could use digital camera to record the work of the
teams.
Opportunity to assess Using ICT
Teams should evaluate their work as individuals and as
part of a group (Two Stars and a Wish).
Invite canteen and senior staff to taste and evaluate
the choices. Ask the canteen staff to share their issues and tips about
running a canteen.
If possible, ideas from the class could be incorporated
into the plans of the school canteen.
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