Unit: Keeping healthy

Topic: Food Groups

 Objectives

By the end of the lesson learners would have: 

• Identified how many food groups do we have.
• Learned about different nutrients.
• Learned the importance of nutrients in our body.
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Keeping Healthy

Statement True False

Eating chocolate for breakfast is good for you

You must clean your teeth once a week

Everyone should try and eat at least 5 pieces of

fruit or vegetables every day

People who do lots of exercise can eat whatever

they want

Unit : Keeping Healthy

 Unit : Keeping Healthy

Statement True False

Sportspeople must eat as healthily as possible

Meat and fish are energy foods

You should clean your teeth at least twice a day

for 2 minutes

Fruit and vegetables are not necessary in a healthy

diet

Your bones grow as you get older

Bones can bend but they won’t break

We get lots of our energy from foods such as

bread, pasta and potatoes

humans and animals eat the same foods

Unit : Keeping Healthy

Some useful words
Vocabulary
A balanced diet includes all the necessary daily food requirements e.g. carbohydrate
Balanced diet
foods, fats, proteins, vitamins, water

The effect, often undesirable, that use of a drug may have

Side effect
An essential food, provides energy and keeps us warm
Fats
An essential food, provides energy
Sugars
An essential food, helps the body grow and repair itself
Protein
Provide us with energy.
Carbohydrates
Needed in minute amounts to keep us healthy.
Vitamins
Felt when the heart pumps once.
Heart beat
A place in the body where the heart beat can be felt. Good points are in the wrist,
Pulse the neck and the temple

The number of times the heart beats

Pulse rate The tubes that blood travels down such as arteries, veins and capillaries
Blood vessel The 2 bag like structures that take in air and where gasses pass in and out of the blood
Lung
Unit 5A: Inadequate Diets
 Food groups
• Foods from the basic food groups
provide the nutrients essential for life
and growth.
• These foods are also known as
‘everyday foods’. Each of the food
groups provides a range of nutrients,
and all have a role in helping the body
function.
• In particular, vegetables, legumes and
fruit protect against illness and are
essential to a healthy diet.
Food Groups
 Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51bWG17m-Q
 Monday, 23rd August, 2021 BSU

Unit: Keeping Healthy

Topic: Food Groups

- Design a menu for a school lunch and give reasons to explain why each food was chosen.
 Exit Ticket
Energy food Growth Food Put the foods to
avoid and essential
foods into the right
group

Fatty food Food with lots of sugar

Fruit & Veg

Learners Profile

• Globally Competent           
• Digitally literate
• Creative & Innovative        
• Resolute
• Holistic and Self sufficient
• Inquisitive                         
• Analytical                           
• Empathetic