Healthy Eating
Crossword Puzzle
The Crossword Puzzle activity provides a general introduction to health and diet, and also tests the children’s reading comprehension skills.
Teaching the activity
The text “What is a healthy diet?” contains advice on health and diet in relation to type 2 diabetes, and also provides a more general introduction to health and diet.
The text helps to solve the clues to the puzzle, as many of the answers are emphasised in the text. See the step-by-step guide for a detailed description of the activity.
The activity takes between 30 and 60 minutes.
Other activity suggestions
The Crossword Puzzle can usefully form part of a course on diabetes or health – possibly together with the activities Diabetes Quiz or The Superheroes and the Health Threat.
Tools
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Text ‘What is a healthy diet?’
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Crossword puzzle
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Answer sheet
Educational goals
The aim is to teach the children about health in relation to the prevention of type 2 diabetes and other diseases, while also strengthening their reading, remembering and spelling skills.
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