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**Topic:** Healthy Eating

**Subject Area:** Health Education

**Year:** 7


 * Curriculum Alignment: **

**Teachers:** Emma Foster, Kaila Harston and Brooke Thomas



Healthy Eating is important to our health, particularly because there are more and more people becoming obese in our society. Therefore, children need to be taught healthy eating habits at an early stage in their lifes in order to prevent this increasing health problem in years to come. An authentic way to teach students about healthy eating is to provide them with the knowledge on this topic, as well as them finding information on their own and then the students being responsible for creating a healthy eating plan. This could be a project that students are involved in over a period of time, apporiximately six weeks, with ongoing learning on healthy eating and further activites which could ultimately be related to their own lives, which would assist students to gain a greater understanding of the topic.
 * Introduction: **

The activity we have provided for the students is to create a healthy eating menu plan individually. The menu plan is to be made for seven days; breakfast, lunch and dinner. The project is designed to run for approximately six weeks, with the weeks sectioned in order for the students to complete each aspect of the project. During this time, students will research a number of questions which will assist them when they create their menu plan. Once the menu plan is created, it is to be submitted to the teacher who will then upload it to the class website. After the fourth week, students will prepare a Powerpoint presentation in groups of three or four to display their research.This is an activity which will not only prepare them to understand healthy eating, but also puts their knowledge of the topic to work.
 * Task Overview: **

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