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Grade 4-Intermediate Phase

Dietary Habits-Lesson Plan

Name of lesson: Dietary habits Time: 1 week Grade 4 Subject: Life SkillsCurriculum Standards (CAPS) Life Skills Grade 4Dietary habits of children: Curriculum Standards (CAPS) English home languageLanguage structures and conventionsCurriculum Standards (CAPS) MathematicsDraw a variety of graphs to display and interpret data including:pictographs (one-to-one representation)

ObjectivesThe learners understand the good dietary habits and the importance of healthy nutrients.

Content Skills ValuesNutriday numbersConservation of the environment, pictograph

Nutriday numbersFind out about pictographs, practice counting in � ves and tens, work out the answers to thequestions relating to the pictograph

We must ensure that we are following good dietary habits

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Learning Activities and how to teach themWork through the worksheet as follows:

Danone NutriDay numbers*Explain the meanings of pictographs. If the learners have computer access let them play some pictograph games at this URL http://goo.gl/5YqJS *Practice counting in � ves and tens*Place the learners in pairs and let them workout the answers to the questions relating to the pictograph

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Prior KnowledgeDi� erent types of food - for growth, energy, health

Leads on to…Healthy eating for children: South African Food-Based Dietary GuidelinesDietary needs of childrenFactors in� uencing food intake of children

Teacher preparation before starting*Look through some books and online resources on nutrition and especially on the six important nutrients of carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals and water before you start this lesson so as to familiarise yourself with content for the lesson. You’ll � nd information on the South African Food-Based dietary guidelines at this URL http://goo.gl/yFCf0 *Read through the worksheets and familiarise yourself with them and what resources they require*Identify some of the necessary vocabulary for this nutrition theme and write the words on to wordlists*Find information on the nutrients in yoghurt so that the learners can use it for their research

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Name: Date:

Danone NutriDay numbers

Conservation of the environment. Look at the pictograph of how many Danone NutriDay

yoghurt cups were re-used.

January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

1 (Danone NutriDay cup) = 10 ½ (Danone NutriDay cup) = 5

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Now translate the information from the previous page into the bar graph below:

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January February March April May June

How many Danone NutriDay yoghurt cups were reused in January?

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In which month were the least Danone NutriDay cups reused?

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Which month recorded the highest reuse of Danone NutriDay cups?

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How many Danone NutriDay yoghurt cups were reused in February and March?

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