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Year 9

Healthy eating

Unit aim
To increase nutritional knowledge which will enable students to make healthier food choices.

Key area of learning
Food and nutrition

Curriculum level
4–5

Underlying concepts
Hauora – developing an understanding that nutrition can contribute to all dimensions of health and well-being.

Health promotion – identifying health services that promote students' health and well-being and activity contribute to the well-being of themselves and others.

Socio-ecological perspective – understand the cultural, technological, and economic factors that impact on food choices.

Attitudes and values – respect the rights of others.

Prior learning
National Nutritional Guidelines (NNGs)
Health studies on total well-being/hauora

AO Learning outcome Learning experiences Assessment opportunities
4A1

Students will describe the relationships between human growth and development and food needs.

Students will identify and analyse their personal food habits and develop effective self-management strategies to meet their nutritional needs.

Discuss facts and fallacies about food (p. 13 Choice Food).

Students keep a food diary for three days and analyse using the four food groups to identify areas of need. Note Scenario activity (p. 10 Choice Food) cover for students to become familiar with the concept of hauora.

Set up an action plan to make one positive adjustment to their food choices to show that they understand they can make healthier choices.

Self analysis of their nutritional needs and development of an action plan to meet these needs.

Reflect with another student on the outcomes of the plan.

5A4 Students will investigate and describe the ways in which people define their own body image and sense of self worth and the ways they describe others.

Students develop a questionnaire to gauge people's ideas about body image (sensitivity needed).

Look at magazines / draw a timeline/poster of how body shapes have changed over time (p. 16 Choice Food).

Discuss the statement "Advertisements aim to make you want to be like the person in the advertisement."

Analyse the factors that have impacted on societal attitudes to body image

Discuss and implement one positive action that could be implemented to counteract negative messages.

5C3 Students will demonstrate assertiveness skills to meet and manage food issues in a variety of settings.

Class scenarios developed where students identify various sources of pressures that may influence their food choices (p. 18 Choice Food).

Class demonstrate basic assertiveness skills to manage these (skills practice/issues exploration).

Peer assessment using assertiveness skills checklist.
5D1 Students will investigate societal influences that support and promote people's health in relation to sound nutritional practices.

Get the class to survey a public place at lunchtime where people are eating, relate this to advertisements on television, in magazines to see whether there is a push for healthy eating or a promotion of "less healthy" foods.

Students write a half page review on "Is healthy eating a government or individual responsibility?"

5D3 Students will investigate the selling of high-risk foods within the school community and how this enhances students' wellbeing.

Discuss high risk and low risk foods.

Provide a range of pictures for students to sort through (p. 9 Choice Food).

School investigation of time, place, occasion, procedures, policies when high-risk food is bought, prepared, cooked, served, stored (p. 20 Choice Food).

Analyse the issues surrounding selling of high-risk food within the school.

Prepare a class report that makes justified recommendations for change (if necessary) for presentation to the appropriate authority.
AO = Achievement Objective

Practical skills – Combining nutritional knowledge with technical skills

References
Ministry of Education. (1999). Choice food! Food and nutrition: Years 7-8. Wellington: Learning Media.




Introduction

Year 9 units

Healthy eating

Healthy food across cultures

Health promotion

Year 10 units

Routines and procedures

Food fantastic

Roles and responsibilities

Societal factors affecting food choice