TEACHER'S NOTES

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Food groups

IntroductionIt is important that the pupils unclerstand that ahealthy diet ccnsists of eating the right kinds of foodand in the right amounts. The food pyramid is a toolused in health education to illustrate this. Generallyspeaking a serving refers to a normal amount of eachtype of food. For example: L seraing of fruit = 1 appleor L serving of milk = 1 glnss of núlk.

Warm up. Tell the pupils to look carefully at the food

pyramid. Explain that this pyramid shows us notjust the different food ty'pes but also the correctdaily amounts for each type.

. Ask questions about the food pyramid, forexample: How many seraings of aegetables d.o eae needevery day?

Activity 1. Pupils use the key to colour the segments c¡f the

pyramid.r Correct the activity by asking the pupils to

reproduce tire pyramid on the board usingcoloured chalk.

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Activity 2. Pupils classify the words by underli,ning them

according to the key.Answer key red-cake, butter; yellow-yclghurt, cheese;orange-fish, chicken; ftreen-oranges, pineapple,broccoli, onion; blue-m.acaroni, cereals

Activity 3r Ptrpils read the sentences and circle kue or False.. Check the activity by readin¡; a sentence out lc.rud

and asking the class to call out true or false.Answer key 1"-F; 2-F;3:l;4-F; 5-T

Project ideasr Make a large food pyramid for a wall cl'rart. Pupils

glue pictures of food in the correct segments of thepyramicl.

. Tbll tl"re pupils to keep a food diary where theywrite down everything they eat and drink for 1.week. They can then work out if they have hadthe daily recommended amounts for each foodtype.

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1 Look qt the food groups. Colour eoch foc¡d group s different coloWe divide food into six different groups.

Fots ond sweets = Í€d Doiry produce ; t¿Vegetobfelofid fruit = gr€€o Corbohydrotes = blue

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2 Look at the list of words. Underline the words using the coffectcolours for the food groups.mocoroni oronges yoghurt fish coke onion cereof s

pineoppf e chicken butter broccoli cheese

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Reqd ond circle Tfue or Fslse.Sweets ond fsts ore very good for us.We don't need to eot fruit every doy.we need three to five portions of vegetobles every doy.Breod ond butter ore in the some group.Apples ond broccoli ore in the some group,

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