2012 Curriculum

Year 3 - My Future: "Bright future" (Balanced diets)

Key Skills I can keep a daily record for one week; I can identify the healthiness of food by looking at the packaging; I can sort foods according to how healthy they are; I can present information in a barchart; I can identify the effects of a healthy/unhealthy lifestyle on the different parts of our bodies; I can create a branching database;

• To create self-portraits predicting their appearance in 50 years time;

Activities

• Keep a food and fitness diary for one week;
• Study food packaging and look at the new traffic light system. Sort foods into
  'occasional treats', ‘once a week’ and 'every day';
  
• Go through week’s diary and highlight the food and activities with green, amber and red. Children to evaluate whether they have a mostly green, amber or red lifestyle;
• Create a barchart using the number of green, amber and red highlights they got to evaluate their own healthiness (handle sensitively);
• On two identical body pictures label what happens if you have a green life, what if you have a red life. Label each part (eg: teeth, skin, heart, stomachs)
  
• Create a branching database to survey other children, questioning food and fitness choices, at end of each branch is an analysis of their future health;
  

• A food diary updated daily and then highlighted;
• An understanding of healthy food and how you can identify this on food packaging;
• A barchart;
• An understanding of how different foods effect our body;
  
• A health analysis database;
  

- Food packaging displaying traffic light system
- Pictures of food for sorting
- Sheet showing two detailed bodies