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**Information For Teachers **[[image:edn113-2012-groupproject/fruit_face.jpg align="right"]]
Along with parents, teachers also play an integral part in the teaching and learning of children’s Healthy Eating habits and choices for a healthy and active lifestyle. It is imperative that children from an early age learn good food from bad and also why they need to make these choices. Along with the national ‘Crunch and Sip’ incentive that is followed by the majority of Primary Schools around Australia, activities like this help children understand why fruit and vegetables are so good for them. There are numerous ways of teaching students about the importance of choosing the ‘right’ foods and at this age, incorporating a variety of components for teaching this subject is advantageous. The Kindergarten to Pre-Primary age group have only a very short attention span, so ensuring the projects are kept short and informative will be advantageous for everyone. By molding conversations, movies, cutting and pasting (which also incorporates their fine motor skill practice) and physical activities (in this instance creating a ‘funny fruit face’ plate to eat) will hopefully endeavor to keep all students mentally and physically involved and entertained. As students get older and progress through the Primary school years, this subject ,being an imperative topic, can be taught with the content focused more on either growing their own fruit and vegetables within the school grounds, creating their own ‘healthy eating’ recipes, through to designing webpage’s focused on Healthy Eating. This subject has the opportunity and depth to be taught to various age groups and in many different ways…the choice is endless with the focus on Healthy Eating the main goal! (Go_for_2&5 2012)

**Suggested Teaching Plan **
[|5 minute clip with Elmo]– Elmo visits the White house kitchen and talks about Healthy food choices and going to school
 * Day 1:** This lesson is essentially about teaching students regarding Healthy Eating. Why the human body requires ‘2&5’ and how they can distinguish between ‘good and bad’ food choices. The teacher will spend approximately half the lesson talking about the subject and showing the students pictures of the variety of fruit and vegetables that are abundant for us to eat. For the second half of the lesson, the students will watch an entertaining clip with Elmo about the importance of healthy food and going to school. Finishing the with time for the students and teacher to ask questions.
 * Lesson time:**45 mins
 * Resources:** [|Go for 2 & 5]– It’s easy to find a way to get some extra fruit and vegies in your day (printed colour copy)

With students placed into groups of 4/5, they will look through magazines finding different ‘good and bad’ foods and cutting them out. They then have to decide (as a group) what they think is a ‘good or bad’ food and put into two different piles.
 * Day 2:** At the beginning of each lesson, the teacher will ‘refresh’ the students’ memory and speak about what they have learned on the previous day/s.
 * Lesson time:** 1 hr
 * Resources:** Magazines, scissors

(Warner 2009)
 * Day 3:** Refreshing the students on what they have learnt and prepared over the last two days, students will then be placed back into their groups. On a chart with the headings of ‘Good foods’ and ‘Bad foods’, the students will paste their cut outs under each selected heading. Once they have completed this task, students will be given some extra time to colour/decorate their chart.
 * Lesson time:** 1 hr
 * Resources:** A1 cardboard charts, glue, pens/pencils


 * Day 4:** Incorporating technology into the classroom, students will have the opportunity to play an interactive game on the whiteboard by using the [|‘Study Ladder Whiteboard Story Book’ game]. This allows students to select different food choices and drag it to the ‘Good or Bad’ food heading. The game then informs the student on right and/or incorrect answers.
 * Lesson time:** 45 mins
 * Resources:** Whiteboard

Today, they have the opportunity to make something ‘fun and delicious’…then get to eat it! Incorporating hygiene, students will thoroughly wash their hands with soap and water, and stand at a table behind a paper plate. On each desk (with approximately 6 paper plates), there will be a platter with fruit, vegetables and cheese. Students can create their own ‘funny fruit face’. The teacher will take a photo of each student with their finished plate…it’s now time to eat their creation!! **Resources:**Paper plates (enough for each student), variety of fruits, vegetables and cheese on platter (enough for tables of approximately six students), camera (Family_Learning 2011)
 * Day 5:** Once again, students will spend a few minutes reflecting on what they have learnt and created during the week.
 * Lesson time:** 1 hr

**References **
Family_Learning (2011). "5 a Day." Retrieved 15 May 2012, from [].

Go_for_2&5 (2012). "Go for 2 & 5." Retrieved 15 May 2012, from [].

Warner, T. (2009). "Green smoothie made with love." Retrieved 15 May 2012, from [].

**Helpful Websites **
[|Interactive whiteboard resources for healthy eating] [|Healthy Kids : Food and Nutrition]