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Section B Lesson Plan Grade 5 Intermediate Phase

Grade 5-Intermediate Phase

Healthy Eating-Lesson Plan

Name of lesson: Healthy Eating Time: 1 week Grade 5 Subject: Life SkillsCurriculum Standards (CAPS) Life Skills Grade 5Healthy eating for children: South African Food-Based Dietary Guide-lines Dietary needs of childrenFactors in� uencing food intake of childrenCurriculum Standards (CAPS) English Home LanguageListening and speakingParticipates in discussions, explaining own opinionReadingUses reading strategies, e.g. uses textual and contextual cluesDiscusses new vocabulary from the read textUses a dictionary for vocabulary developmentWritingSelects content appropriate to the audience and purpose of the textLinks sentences into a coherent paragraph using pronouns, connect-ing words and correct punctuationUses appropriate grammar, spelling and punctuation

ObjectivesThe learners understand what makes up a healthy daily dietThe learners classify the foods and work out a healthy selection for each categoryThe learners can identify healthy food vocabulary

PriorKnowledgeThe functions of the six important nutrients, classi� cation of foods that contribute to energy, health and growth and repair

Leads on to…Factors in� uencing the food intake of children

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Content Skills ValuesFood intake of childrenFood choices, food groups, lea� et, summary

Food intake of childrenListen to and discuss a food story, revise relevant vocabulary, discuss food choices one would like but are never bought, discuss food choices one doesn’t like that are bought, iden-tify the food groups and what are contained in each one, categorise food, complete the worksheets, identify healthy foods for the tuck shop, summarise how knowledge of healthy choices can in� uence food choices at a tuck shop, make a lea� et containing a community wellness message

The South African food based guidelines help us to choose healthy food

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Teacher preparation before starting*Look through some books and online resources about nutrition and the six important nutrients of carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals and water before you start this lesson, so as to familiarise yourself with the content of the lesson*Read through the worksheets and familiarise yourself with them and what resources they require. Find out more about the South African Food-Based Dietary Guidelines at http://www.sahealthinfo.org/nutrition/safoodbased.htm*Make the suggested posters for each of the worksheets*Identify some of the necessary vocabulary for this nutrition theme and write the words on word lists: Food intake of children: food choices, food groups, dairy, carbohydrates, proteins,

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

Worksheet: Food intake of children*Look through some online food stories to � nd one for your class to listen to, such as ‘ The incredible adventures of the amazing food detective’ https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/redirects/landingpages/afd/*Revise as much healthy vocabulary as you can by getting the learners to call out words which you then write on the board*Use your own created posters to get the learners discussing some of the issues raised by the worksheet – food choices one would like but are never bought, food choices one doesn’t like that are bought*Identify the food groups with the learners and what is contained in each one. Make sure you have a poster on this that has been created using the South African food-based dietary guidelines*Create a number of pictures of various items and practise categorising them into the right food groups*Place the learners in groups and let them discuss the requirements of the � rst part of the worksheet and report back to the class. They complete their individual worksheets to this point*Place the learners in pairs to identify healthy foods for the tuckshop*Let them discuss and summarise how knowledge of healthy choices can in� uence food choices at a tuckshop*Show the learners how to make a lea� et as a community wellness message to hand out. Lea� ets are printed sheets of either A4, A5, A6 size paper, A6 being the smallest. The reason they are small is so that they can be easily handed out and kept. As lea� ets are often only looked at � eetingly, facts are kept to a minimum. Look at this URL for ideas on how to make a lea� et http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_make_a_lea� et

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Food intake of children

• Write a list of some of the food choices

you would like to eat at home, but

which are never bought

• Write a list of some of the food choices

you don’t want to eat, but which are

bought anyway

From the above lists, identify which foods are dairy products, proteins and carbohydrates.

In your opinion, are you eating foods from all the food groups?

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If not, what can you do to change this? ..............................................................................................................

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Community/Wellness Policy MessageDesign a community/wellness message/lea� et for your school. Identify food products that are healthy and ready to eat which can be bought at the school tuck shop or at a supermarket nearby. Summarize how making healthy choices can in� uence food choices of students in the school.

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