UNIT TITLE:  Healthy Harold (Health and Nutrition)

Year:  8

Term:  3

Week: 1-6

Length: 40min

Syllabus Outcomes: 4.12 – A student investigates health issues affecting young people.

Students will learn about

Students will learn to

Suggested Teaching and Learning Strategies

• The nature of health

- the interaction of physical, social, emotional and spiritual    components.
- health as a constantly changing state.
- the relative nature of health.
- the benefits of health and lifestyle.
- factors that influence health.

• Nutrition

- role of nutrients

- nutritional requirements

- food and relationship

- influences on food choices

- cultural and social meanings of food

• Construct a personal meaning of health by exploring a range of community and accepted definitions.
  
  
• Examine the relationship between the physical, social, emotional and spiritual components of health.
  
  

• Analyse media advertising of food and compare it to dietary guidelines.
  
  
• Investigate factors influencing food choice eg culture and customs, gender, media.

• Brainstorm categories of well-being and group them on the board.
  
  
• Provide handout of factor affecting health. Have students choose their most important three and write and report on their factors.
  
  
• Student’s partner up and list advantages of an active lifestyle. They then choose a category to which their card fits and explain why.
  
  
• Literacy exercise.
  
  
• Class debate.
  
  
• Note taking followed up by brainstorming.
  
  
• Learning in groups and then divided into different groups for peer teaching.
  
  
• Information highway (Internet).
  
  
• Video and class discussion.
  
  
• Cooking class, exploring a different culture.

Assessment: