Healthy Eating

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Awareness Days World Health Day

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Objectives

Science

Practical scientific methods, processes and skills: Asking simple questions and recognizing that they can be answered in different ways
Observing closely, using simple equipment
Performing simple tests
Identifying and classifying
Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.
Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

Art and Design

Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.

Design and Technology

Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks
Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including ingredients.
Use the basic principles of a healthy & varied diet to prepare dishes.

Lesson Planning

Our focus today is Healthy Eating.

Children will:

Learn about the different food groups and the importance of eating a well-balanced diet.
Develop a simple understanding of the different ways different kinds of food help our bodies to grow and develop.
Use different kitchen tools to produce picnic food.

Planning

Provided Resources

Mr Couch Potato introductory letter
Fruit vehicles

You Will Need

Flipchart list of health themes
Mr CP
Local supermarket shopping bags containing food items from each main food group
Titles for each main food category on a different colour A4 card
Pages from food magazines
Paper plates
Supermarket role-play items
Picnic ingredients
Information books
Board games and jigsaw puzzles
The Growing Story’ by Ruth Krass and Helen Oxenbury

Weblinks

Food and diet from gosh.nhs.uk
Creative food snacks from hellowonderful.co