lesson 4

GETTING READY FOR THE TRAINING CAMP II- LEARNING ABOUT GOOD NUTRITION

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Lesson 4

Getting ready for the training camp II - Learning about good nutrition

Lesson venue

Classroom

Lesson duration

60 minutes

Student prior knowledge

Students should be familiar with foods that can be categorised into The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Food Plate food groups - grains, vegetables, proteins, dairy and fruits.

WALT - We are learning to...

Use The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Food Plate to make judgments about good nutrition.

WILF - What I’m looking for...

TIB - This is because...

It will help us learn about good nutrition so that we can teach others.

Lesson preparation

Prior to the lesson teachers should organise the following:

• interactive whiteboard, computer(s) and other appropriate equipment for the class to view a video or pdfs

• Activity sheet 4.1 - Food plate puzzle - hard copy to each group or interactive pdf version on student computers, laptops or iPads

• Activity sheet 4.2 - The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Food Plate: Food plate puzzle (solution) - projected on to the interactive whiteboard or data screen.

• Activity sheet 4.3 - Our team plan - a hard copy to each group or interactive pdf version on student computers, laptops or iPads.

Visual resources available

The visual resource available to teachers for this lesson is:

• Video 3.1 - What the stars eat and drink.

Lesson delivery

The following provides you with a suggested plan on how to deliver this lesson. You are encouraged to take a flexible approach and modify this lesson and its timings to suit the needs and abilities of your students.

teaching and learning plan

• I know what food groups I should eat more of and justify my ideas.

• I can use The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Food Plate to make judgments about what I and professional footballers eat.

• I can compare the nutritious benefits of different food with what I eat.

• I can write nutritious advice for others to adopt.

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1. Learning about good nutrition so your students can teach others (15 minutes)

Distribute Activity sheet 4.1 - Food plate puzzle - a hard copy to each group or interactive pdf version on student computers, laptops or iPads.

Explain to students that the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Plate - Activity sheet 4.2 - The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Food Plate: Food plate puzzle (solution) is designed to give us a general outline of what foods we should eat daily and in what proportion. It tells us that we should eat a variety of foods, and eat less of some foods and more of others.

The plate features five sections (vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy and protein).

The big message is that fruits and vegetables take up close to half the plate, with the vegetable portion being bigger than the fruit section. The grain section is bigger than the protein section. It generally recommends that you eat more vegetables than fruit and more grains than protein foods.

The divided plate also aims to discourage super-big portions, which can cause weight gain.

Ask students to complete the food plate puzzle activity by selecting one food group for each section from the list provided. On completion ask each group to justify their choices to the class.

Distribute Activity sheet 4.2 - The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Food Plate: Food plate puzzle (solution) - hard copy to each group or interactive pdf version on student computers, laptops or iPads. Ask groups to compare their answers with the solution.

2. Discuss findings and personalise task (25 minutes)

Teacher’s should ask the following questions:

• Which of the food groups should we eat more of?

• Which should we eat less of?

• Why do you think you should eat more of one type of food than another?

Student responses may include that some foods:

• are more nutritious and better for you

• give you more energy or fuel

• can help you maintain a healthy weight

• are more healthy and can prevent you from becoming ill

• make you feel fit and strong.

In their groups ask each student to write down in Activity sheet 4.1 - Food plate puzzle what they had for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks the day before. Ask the following questions:

• Do they have a nutritious group?

• Which food category does your group eat a lot of?

• Which food category do they not eat enough of?

Refer them to Activity sheet 4.2 - The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Food Plate: Food plate puzzle (solution). Ask the following questions:

• How much of the food from the ‘Only sometimes and in small amounts’ category did they eat?

• Was it more than is recommended by the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Plate?

3. Compare what students eat with what professional footballers eat (20 minutes)

Watch Video 3.1 - What the stars eat and drink. This video has professional footballers from Melbourne Victory talking about what they eat and their nutrition habits before and during matches.

At the conclusion of the video, using their food plate, students should take time to categorise what the players eat.

Ask the following questions:

• How does it compare to what you and your group ate the day before?

• How does it compare to what your family normally eats i.e. their favourtite dishes?

• What other points did the players make about eating habits that are important before a game?

Distribute Activity sheet 4.3 - Our team plan - hard copy to each group or interactive pdf version on student computers, laptops or iPads.

This activity sheet will be used by your students to outline the tournament rules, nutrition tips, respect rules and important football skills to their junior teams. Please note the football activity will be devised in Lesson 5 and respect rules will be devised with junior students in Lesson 8.

From the nutrition advice they received in Video 3.1 - What the stars eat and drink and their knowledge of the food plate, student groups should now decide on the nutrition tips for their junior team.

On the activity sheet students should write what their junior teams should eat more and less of leading up to and during the tournament.