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 * HEALTH **

Our task is for a class of Year 5 students participating in a health class over one term at school. Over a number of weeks the students will be learning about the healthy food pyramid and how they can make their own healthy choices. The aim for this lesson plan is to give the students a one week challenge focussing on their diet and exercise. The extra challenge will be students completing the week without using any technology including televisions, computers, game consoles or phones. The overall outcome of the task will be the students learning about their own wellbeing through the choices they make and recording all of this in a weekly log. They will record what food and beverages they consume, what extracurricular activities they engage in, exercise and reflective writing on how they feel at the end of each day without using technology.
 * Introduction: **

Students will learn about the healthy food pyramid, the levels of the pyramid, and which foods should be consumed the most and the least. At the end of the week, having learnt about the different food groups they will be asked to complete an online activity relating to the healthy food pyramid. In the activity, students are to drag and drop items into the appropriate levels of the pyramid. Once they are happy with the choices they have made, they will print this out and hand it in to the teacher for marking. They will receive these back having been marked on the following Monday, where they will also learn about their next task. The aim for this task is to hopefully have given the students a greater understanding about how much of each food they should be consuming more of, and which foods they should be consuming less of. Healthy food pyramid activity Task 1 Week 1 can be found at: []
 * Week 1 Task 1: **

Exercise and activity calendar for Task 2 Week 2 can be found at: []
 * Week 2 Task 2: ** During this week, students will be learning about exercise and how important being active is to their own wellbeing. They will learn about different types of activities which can be beneficial to their health. Over the week they will visit BAM website and take part in creating their own physical activity calendar to use during the following week's task. The calendar activity allows them to select the particular week dates and click and drag certain activities into the weekdays. They are asked to choose a minimum of 30 minutes activity every day. The activities they choose do not need to be extreme, they can range from walking to swimming to soccer or aerobics. As long as they are completing some sort of physical exercise, students will reap the benefits associated with exercise.

‘My healthy choices log book’ can be found at: [|Yr5 Food journal.docx]
 * Week 3 Task 3: ** On Monday the students will begin keeping their ‘healthy choices log book’. Over the course of the week they will record on a daily basis what food and beverages they consume, what activities and exercise they participate in (including passive activities such as craft or reading) and how they are feeling in regards to not using technology for the week.


 * Week 4 Task 4: ** This week the children will come in having completed their log book from the previous week. During the first lesson, the students will break into small groups to talk about what they discovered during their week without technology. The questions all members of the groups will answer are as follows:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">How did you feel not using technology?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What did you do in the time you usually would have spent watching TV, on the computer, phone or gaming console?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Do you think there are benefits to limiting the amount of time spent using technology?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Did you manage to exercise at least 30 minutes every day?
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Did you take part in passive activities like reading, painting, craft etc?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Did you think you made healthy food and beverage choices during the week?
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Where could you have made better choices in what you consumed during the week?


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 5&6 Task 5: ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Over these two weeks, students will spend time in computer labs putting together their own PowerPoint presentations. Students will create one PowerPoint page for each day of the week in their log book. Here the students will discuss what they thought about the task, what they enjoyed, what they struggled with, how much time they spent exercising, what they thought about their food choices etc. Students will also be able to upload images to enhance their presentations.


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week 7&8 task 6: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Over these two weeks, students will be presenting their PowerPoint Presentations to the rest of the class. PowerPoint presentations will be marked by the teacher while the child is presenting to the class. There will be time at the end of each presentation for students to ask questions to the presenter, the teacher may also wish to ask some questions and give feedback to the student. (examples of power point presentation can be found on the teacher resource page)


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Conclusion: ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">These tasks should take the class almost to the end of the term. By this stage children would have learnt about healthy choices in food, beverages, activities, exercise and technology. They will also be able to assess the choices they made and determine whether or not they are the most beneficial choices. Children will be encouraged to use aspects of what they have learnt even after they finish completing the tasks in health; this could be exercising daily or limiting themselves with time spent watching TV etc.