Online Lessons

Bring a Healthy Lunch to School

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Learning Object: Healthy Life Survey: Bringing lunch to school (LO ID L3159)

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As a class, make up a survey of five questions about students and their school lunch habits. Each student in the class needs to interview at least three others outside of their class to get their answers. Try to have a range of year levels and roughly equal males and females - why? Collate your results as a class and have each person write a report about what was discovered about students and their school lunch habits.
Have a swapping session in which students read each others' reports. Discuss agreements and disagreements with the reports' findings.

Now, in your team, create at least two recipes and at least two lunchbox combinations that can help students eat healthily at lunchtime.

The next step is to combine all the recipe and lunchbox suggestions in the class into one recipe book that will be sold to parents and students:

Who will be responsible for making the pages? What will be the overall design? Cover?
Is there an index? Chapter headings? Introduction? Include the survey results!
Who will photocopy or print and bind the book?
How will you advertise it? Have a poster, entry on school's website and...?
When and where will it be sold? How much will it cost? What happens to the money?
Make a list of who will take on each responsibility. Sometimes more than one person will have to handle a large responsibility.
How much time do you have to complete the task?
Other questions and tasks?

Physical, Personal and Social Learning - Health and Physical Education - Health knowledge and promotion
Physical, Personal and Social Learning - Interpersonal Development - Building social relationships; Working in teams
Physical, Personal and Social Learning - Personal Learning - The individual learner; Managing personal learning
Physical, Personal and Social Learning - Civics and Citizenship - Community engagement
Discipline-based Learning - English - Reading; Writing; Speaking and listening
Interdisciplinary Learning - Communication - Listening, viewing and responding; Presenting
Interdisciplinary Learning - Information and Communications Technology (ICT) - ICT for Visualising Thinking (Learning Objects); ICT for creating; ICT for communicating (if correspondence via blog, email, etc is used)
Interdisciplinary Learning - Thinking Processes - Reasoning, processing and inquiry; Creativity; Reflection, evaluation and metacognition (a journal can also be kept)