Healthy Eating
Test Your Eating Habits
This activity focuses on children’s knowledge of different foods and a varied diet.
Teaching the activity
The activity is a classroom activity based on a scorecard covering a number of healthy foods.
All the children are given a scorecard which they complete to indicate whether and how often they eat the various types of food.
Based on the results, the children can work further on their knowledge of healthy and global foods.
The step-by-step guide provides a detailed description of the activity.
The activity takes around two hours.
Other activity suggestions
The activity can be used as part of a course on other cultures and eating habits.
Test Your Eating Habits can also be used as part of a course on developments in the children’s own food culture, focusing on questions such as “What is it normal for people to eat today?” and “What was it normal for people to eat 30, 50 or 100 years ago?”
Test Your Eating Habits can be followed by the Food Fight activity, in which the children can learn about the amount of fat and sugar in healthy and unhealthy foods.
Tools
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Scorecards for all the children
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Recipe books or access to the Internet (optional)
Educational goals
Test Your Eating Habits makes the children think about their own eating habits. It prepares the ground for a class discussion of the food that the children eat and, just as importantly, the food they do not eat. The aim is to increase the children’s interest in unfamiliar, healthy foods.
The activity involves the children working individually, in groups and as a class.
The elements of discussion and competition will help the children to learn from one another’s experience of food, which will make them more interested in trying something new.
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