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 * Topic:** Healthy Eating Choices
 * Subject Area:** Lifestyle Choices (Health and Physical Education)
 * Year:** 2/3

Curriculum Alignment:

Welcome to Bananarama's online teaching resource for Healthy Eating. This resource designed for teachers' use in educating students in early childhood (year 2/3) on making healthy food choices whilst incorporating technology into the lessons. Learning to make healthy food choices is a crucial part of early childhood development as it will influence future food habits of the students. The students must first learn to identify the different foods groups and compare them, and then learn to make educated choices when eating food. A variety of resources have been provided to assist in the teaching in this topic including videos, Interactive Whiteboard games (there are software requirements), websites, documents, and social networking sites.
 * Introduction**

Task Overview
The authentic learning task has been designed to replicate a real life situation where the children in the class can determine what 'healthy food' is, find healthy recipes that they would enjoy eating that are suitable for a school lunch box and then make a healthy lunch for their class. This task will introduce the concept of making healthy lifestyle choices in the area of nutrition as outlined in the syllabus and curriculum.

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//This resource was created as a requirement of the Bachelor of Education through Murdoch University. It was created by Alana Ford, Rose Gillespie, Tayla Deakin and Tyler Jones.//


 * //Picture Reference's//**

(Forsyth Produce, 2012. Health Day Event at Udston Primary School. http://forsythfreshproduce.co.uk/index/fresh-produce-for-schools. image)

(iStockphoto, 2012. Cool Bananas. http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-4064645-cool-banana-s.php?esource=linkconn&aid=53239&asid=127153. image)