5. Understand why exercise, a healthy diet, and hygiene is important

Lesson Recap Starter: Think back to the last lesson. What are the advantages and disadvantages of foods which have been processed? What are the advantages and disadvantages of foods which have been pre-cooked? What are the advantages and disadvantages of foods which are fresh?

Lesson Starter: Look at the pictures on the slide. Which of these show a healthy and unhealthy lifestyle? Explain your answers.

Ask children to look at the pictures on the starter slide. Can they identify which are healthy and unhealthy and explain why? The following slide gives answers/guidance.

Presentation - Starter Slide.

Answer questions and take part in activities during the presentation. 

Key Concept:

During this unit, each lesson contains a key concept question housed in the '30 Second Challenge' slide. To help children master this content so the knowledge moves from their short term memory to their long term memory, at the beginning of the follow on lesson the question from the previous lesson is revisited. 

The questions covered during this unit include:

1. What are the basic needs of humans and animals?

2. How do animals obtain their food from other animals?

3. What is a balanced diet?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of foods that have been processed? What are the advantages and disadvantages of foods which have been pre-cooked? What are the advantages and disadvantages of foods which are fresh?

5. What exercise do you need to do to stay healthy? What daily habits do you need to maintain to stay hygienic and healthy?

6. What is the recommended amount of exercise? What piece of kit can be used to help you monitor the amount of exercise you take?

Presentation

 

Expert Film: Paul and dog trainer Alison discuss diet and exercise. It is just as important for dogs like Floss as it is for us humans!

How we deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks:

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7 - Encounters with Further and Higher Education: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about training providers in your area.

Presentation - Expert Film.

Fatty Crisps Fair Test  

Watch the Lesson Assignment film to help with this test.  As well as exercising regularly it is important to eat a balanced diet. This fair test helps the pupils realise how much fat crisps contain.   

Firstly, pick one sample of crisps. Place them on some graph paper and cover with kitchen roll. Roll over the crisps with a rolling pin. Remove the crumbs from the graph paper and see what grease stain has been left behind. Draw a rough coloured pen line around the grease stain/

Repeat this for the other crisp samples, you may need to do this on other parts of the paper, or on different sheets of paper.

Once finished, children should be able to decide what crisp had the biggest grease stain or count up the squares inside each grease stain.

To extend further, children could compare their results with the fat content listed on the crisp packet. Did the crisps with the most grease contain the most fat?

Children should decide on how to make this a fairer test. Suggestions may be:

• Weigh each crisp sample
• Run the pin over it the same amount of times
• Only use one crisp from each packet

Children should then present their results in a bar graph. The task is differentiated in the Handout to support different learners needs.

Fatty Crisps Fair Test   

Several bags of crisps (different brands and types)   

Pen    

Rolling pin    

graph paper

kitchen roll

Optional - To draw a graph which shows the amount of squares of paper each crisps' grease covered. 

Health Diary
Use the Handout to record your activities over the course of a weekend. Which activity do you thing will take up the most time? This could be set as a homework task.

Quiz
With their talk partners, the students are to go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions.

Graph Paper / Handout
Quiz in Presentation
Health Diary Handout