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Teachers’ guide
Know yourself
Diet and health
Diet and life stages
Phase 2
(age 8-11 years)
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Contents
This Teachers’ guide provides teaching notes and suggests resources to help children
learn about:
 Diet and health
 Diet and life stages
Frameworks and lesson notes
There are two frameworks in this document, one for Diet and health and one for Diet and life
stages.
Each framework outlines what children will learn and the teaching resources available.
Lesson notes are also provided.
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Diet and health
Question
Do food and drinks provide
energy?
What do food and drinks
provide?
How do food and drinks affect
health?
Why do we need to drink
regularly?
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Learning
Know that food and drinks provide energy
Know that different food and drinks provide
different amounts of energy
Know that food and drinks
provide different substances that are
important for health (nutrients, water and
fibre)
Know that food and drink can affect their
health and understand the advantages of
healthy eating and drinking
Know that they need different amounts of food
and drink from each food group
Know that all food and drink can be part of a
healthy varied diet and active lifestyle
Know that it is important to drink regularly
throughout the day to stay hydrated
Resources
Energy PowerPoint
Energy cards
Blank energy cards
Nutrients, water and fibre
PowerPoint
Nutrient grid worksheet
Nutrient recipes
Food, drink and health
PowerPoint
Food, drink and health
worksheet
Hydration stimulus sheet
Do food and drinks provide energy?
Learning
Know that food
and drinks provide
energy
Know that different
food and drinks
provide different
amounts of energy
Teaching notes
Use the Energy PPT to introduce the concept that food and drinks provide
energy. Use the Energy cards to demonstrate that different food and drinks
provide different amounts of energy. Ask the children to rank the cards in
order of energy provided per 100g.
 Which foods provide the most energy?
 Which foods provide the least energy?
Bring in some food and drink packaging, dividing it between the tables of
children. Ask the children to identify the energy content (kJ) per 100g on each
of the items of food and drink packaging on their table. Between the group,
they should choose four foods for which they will create Blank energy cards.
Provide children with the Blank energy cards to complete. Task the class
with ordering their newly made kilojoule cards from highest to lowest amount
of energy provided per 100g. See if the children can see any similarities in
food and drink high in energy (e.g. foods high in energy may be high fat
foods) and low in energy (e.g. foods low in energy may be fruits and
vegetables).
As an extension activity, use the portions slide of the Energy PowerPoint to
emphasise that we eat food in different portions and this will affect the energy
it provides. Ask the children to identify the energy content (kJ) per portion on
each of the items of food packaging. Ask the children to rank the packaging in
order of energy provided per portion from high to low. Is this is a different
order to the energy provided per 100g?
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What do food and drinks provide?
Learning
Know that food
and drinks
provide different
substances that
are important for
health (nutrients,
water and fibre)
Teaching notes
Use the Nutrients, water and fibre PowerPoint introduce that food and
drinks provide different substances that are important for health (nutrients,
water and fibre). Explain that water and fibre are not nutrients but are
important for health. Use the PowerPoint to introduce the functions of
different nutrients. Task the children to design a poster showing the function
and food sources of the nutrients. You could then use these for a class
display.
Bring in some food and drink packaging, dividing it between the tables of
children. Task the children to complete the Nutrient grid worksheet by
looking at the nutrition label on the packaging. Discuss as a class which food
or drink is highest and lowest in carbohydrate, protein and fat. Show the class
a poster of the national dietary model in your country.
Question the children on:
 What food group each of the food or drinks from the packaging
belongs to?
 What food groups are the main sources of carbohydrate, protein and
fat?
Organise a cooking session, creating recipes which highlight particular
nutrients. Use one of the Nutrient recipes provided or find your own:
 Danish style open sandwich – use the bread to highlight carbohydrate;
 Greek yogurt fruit trifle – use the yogurt to highlight calcium;
 Hummus – use the chickpeas to highlight fibre.
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How do food and drinks affect health?
Learning
Know that food
and drinks can
affect their health
and understand
the advantages of
healthy eating and
drinking
Know that they
need different
amounts from
each food group
Know that all food
and drink can be
part of a healthy
varied diet and
active lifestyle
Teaching notes
Use the Food, drink and health PowerPoint to introduce that different food
and drinks provide different nutrients and other substances which can affect
our health. Provide children with the Food, drink and health worksheet.
Children should draw food and drinks they believe are important for their
health and suggest why they are important.
Task the children with producing a balanced meal. They should use the
dietary guidelines for their country to help them decide what foods and the
amount they should choose. Check that the children include foods from the
following groups:
 Bread, rice, potatoes, pasta and breakfast cereals;
 Fruit and vegetables;
 Meat, fish, eggs, beans, nuts and tofu;
 Milk and dairy foods;
 A drink.
(Any foods or drinks high in fat and/or sugar should only be present in small
amounts.) Children could draw their meals as a poster, labelling what food
and drinks are from which groups. You could use these posters as a class
display.
Use the variety of different meals produced to emphasise that all food and
drink can be part of a healthy, varied diet. Highlight that all foods and drinks
can be included, but the quantity in which we consume them is important.
You may also wish to mention that physical activity, at least 60 minutes a day,
is important for good health.
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Why do we need to drink regularly?
Learning
Why do we need
to drink regularly?
Teaching notes
Explain to the children that it is very important that they drink regularly
throughout the day. We are encouraged to drink 6-8 glasses a day of lots of
different types of fluid.
Ask the children:
 How much do they drink in a day?
 What is their favourite type of drink?
 Do they have a drink at lunchtime?
Explain to the children that when the weather is hot, or they have been active,
they will need to drink more. Good drink choices include water, milk and fruit
juice.
Use the Hydration stimulus sheet to recap children’s knowledge and
understanding. Ask children why the people in the images might have
different fluid needs to them (e.g. gender, age, physical activity, hot weather).
Look at the different examples of fluid sources with the class. Which fluid
sources should they have regularly? Which fluid sources should they have
occasionally? What are the advantages and disadvantages to each fluid
source (e.g. orange juice – counts as a portion of fruit but could damage
teeth).
Task the children to create a short role play to teach others about the
importance of keeping hydrated and what and how much to drink.
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Diet and life stages
Question
Do nutritional needs change
through life?
Learning
Name the key stages in life
Resources
Life stages worksheet
Know that nutritional needs
change through life
Do nutritional needs change through life?
Learning
Name the key
stages in life
Teaching notes
Ask children to think of different life stages and examples of people they know
at different life stages (e.g. older adults - grandparents). Question the children
whether people eat and drink different foods at different life stages (e.g. what
does a baby eat?). Provide children with the Life stages worksheet.
Know that
nutritional needs
Challenge the children to suggest different food and drinks the different
change through life people might have.
Explain to the children that the type of food we eat depends on our age and
that throughout life, we all need different amounts of energy and nutrients.
Ask children to research the nutritional needs of one particular life stage, e.g.
pregnancy, infancy, toddlers, children, adolescents, adults or older adults.
The children should use reliable sources of information for their research
such as textbooks or government health department websites. They could
make a fact sheet of their findings, which they could then present to the rest
of the class.
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