PowerPoint presentation on macronutrients covering classifications, sources and functions of Proteins, Lipids and Carbohydrates. Students are also encouraged to examine deficiency diseases associated with various macronutrients.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Food, Health & Culinary Skills
Strand unit: 10. Healthy Balanced Diet - Role of Nutrients
Suggestions for use: Power point presentation on macronutrients. Contains Active Learning Methodologies to encourage group work i.e. Think, Pair and Share & brainstorms.
Key Skills: Being Creative Managing Information and Thinking Working with Others Literacy Managing Myself
PowerPoint presentation covering the topics of balanced eating, the food pyramid and consequences of an unbalanced diet. Students will recognise the importance of nutrition and diet in contributing to health and well-being.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Food, Health & Culinary Skills
Strand unit: 10. Healthy Balanced Diet - Role of Nutrients
Suggestions for use: Powerpoint presentation on Balanced Eating. Includes Active learning methodologies to encourage group work.
Key Skills: Being Creative Staying Well Working with Others Literacy Managing Myself
An online assessment quiz for the topic of micro-nutrients. Students will need a smart device to access the quiz & teachers will need a Kahoot account to monitor students score online. Revision questions of micronutrients.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Food, Health & Culinary Skills
Strand unit: 9. Health & Wellbeing - Nutrition & Diet
Suggestions for use: Online assessment quiz on micronutrients- vitamins & minerals & associated diseases. Smart device needed
Key Skills: Being Creative Managing Information and Thinking Staying Well Managing Myself
A student worksheet to summarise their learning on the topic of nutrients. Students must fill in the classification, sources and functions of each nutrient (macro/ micro-nutrient). This activity could be completed in pairs.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Food, Health & Culinary Skills
Strand unit: 9. Health & Wellbeing - Nutrition & Diet
Suggestions for use: Can be used for Assessment of Learning, Homework or classwork sheet or pair work to complete when covering nutrition
Key Skills: Being Creative Staying Well Working with Others Numeracy
The Irish Nutritiion & Dietetic Institute have factsheets which are worth reading. This one is on 'Nutrition & You: Children'. The factsheets explore balanced diets, the new food pyramid, dairy, packing healthy lunches, body weight, supporting bones and more.
View full descriptionStrand: 1. Food, Health & Culinary Skills
Strand unit: 12. Nutritional Requirments - Each Lifecycle
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