IT-Based Lesson Plan

Subject : Health Education

Topic : Unit 4 – A Balanced Diet

Level : Primary 6

Duration : 1 Hr (2 periods)

Pre-requisites

Pupils are able to :

  1. understand what a balanced diet means

  2. use the Courseware "Healthy Life, Better Life".

Specific Instructional Objectives

By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to :

  1. identify the components of a balanced diet.

  2. Point out the benefits and value of each food group.

  3. Select the right types of snacks to be included in their planning for a party.

Thinking Skills

  1. Organizing

  2. Decision-making

Learning and Teaching Materials

  1. Courseware : Healthy Life, Better Life – To eat or not to eat.

  2. Worksheet 1

  3. Worksheet 2

  4. Text Book : Health Education Coursebook Primary 6

Instructional Strategies (Lesson Development)

 

Duration

1. Introduction Activity

  

Using ‘Round Robin’ get pupils to fill in Worksheet 1.

10 min

Discuss answers with pupils with reference to the Coursebk.

  

Recapitulate what they have learnt about a balanced diet,

 

and the various healthy ways in which food can be cooked.

  
   
   

2. Revise with pupils how to use the Courseware and instruct

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them to select the programme ‘To eat or not to eat’.

30 min

 

3. Each pupil has to select at least 5 snacks from the programme

and read the explanation of each snack carefully.

 

4. Get pupils to write down the main points of each explanation.

 

5. Pupils to pair up to share and discuss their selections of

snacks.

   

6. Closure

20 min

Get pupils to complete Worksheet 2 and then to share their

  

answers with the class.

  
   

7. Follow-up Activity

  

Pupils to plan for a party in their groups, using the

information they have obtained to select some healthy snacks.

  
   

 

 

 

Prepared by :

Mrs Pauline Tan

CHIJ Katong Primary

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Worksheet 1

What I Know about :

Rice and alternatives

Meat and alternatives

Fruits and vegetables

Example:

    
  • What are they for?
    
  • They are rich in ____??
    
  • Some examples are ____??
    
     
     
     
     
     

List some snacks that you enjoy eating
   
   
   

 

What I want to know about the various types of food/snacks we eat

Example : Is it healthy?

 
 
 

 

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Worksheet 2

From the list of snacks presented in the CD-Rom, which 3 of them do you enjoy but should have less of?

Explain why you should eat less of them.

Then name a healthier alternative to each of these snacks.

  1. Snacks that I should have less of:
  1. Reasons :
    2.

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  2. Healthier alternatives :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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