Pacemaker Pack: Fantastic Food (Middle) by Teacher Superstore

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Exploring current health and nutrition issues relevant to food. . t o c . che e r o t r s super

Website: www.readyed.com.au

COPYRIGHT NOTICE Permission is granted for the purchaser to photocopy sufficient copies for non-commercial educational purposes. However this permission is not transferable and applies only to the purchasing individual or institution.

ISBN 1 86397 574 8

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Contents Teachers’ Notes .............................................................................. Pages 4, 5 Student Record Sheet .......................................................................... Page 6 MY MAIN MUNCHES............................................................................. Page 7 TIME TO EAT ......................................................................................... Page 8 FRESH MILK TO YOU ............................................................................ Page 9

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RED HOT SPECIAL .............................................................................. Page 10 TOP CLASS COOKS ............................................................................ Page 11 FRY THIS! .......................................................................................... Page 12

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A MUDDLED MEAL ............................................................................. Page 14

CALLIGRAMS ..................................................................................... Page 15 FOOD RIDDLES .................................................................................. Page 16

TOOTY FROOTY .................................................................................. Page 17 IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY! ........................................................................ Page 18

HOT CROSS WORDS ........................................................................... Page 19

©WHATR ea dyEdPubl i cat i on I KNOW .................................................................................... Pages 21 FAMILY FEAST ................................................................................... Page 22 •f o rr evi ew pur posesonl y• WORLD OF FOODS ............................................................................. Page 23 LUNCHTIME LIMERICKS ..................................................................... Page 20

WHAT’S ON THE LABEL? .................................................................... Page 24

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT .................................................................... Page 26 FOOD DETECTIVE................................................................................ Page 27

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FOOD SCIENCE 1 ............................................................................... Page 29 FOOD SCIENCE 2 ............................................................................... Page 30 THE SCRAP MUNCHER ....................................................................... Page 31

THE ART OF FOOD .............................................................................. Page 32 CANTEEN KIDS ................................................................................... Page 33 SNACKTIVITIES .......................................................................... Pages 34, 35 ANSWERS .......................................................................................... Page 36

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Teachers’ Notes This fully revised series was initially devised as a means of providing extension for students within the regular classroom, whilst catering for the needs of the teacher and providing materials that were designed along educationally sound lines. Although the content and layout for the revised series has been completely updated, the principles behind the series remain the same, using CONTENT LEVELS as a basis for categorising activities. The key to this approach, which we term the appropriate curriculum model, is that students are presented with activities appropriate to their levels of understanding of the content together with their mastery of the requisite higher-order thinking processes. The levels are an adaptation of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, still a widely accepted and valued model of education.

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Below are the Content Levels and Indicators used in this book:

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FINDING OUT: Recalling data, showing understanding through restating or extending ideas.

What the student does

Answers factual questions, interprets information, describes or illustrates events.

Content Level 2 What it means

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USING INFORMATION: Using information in a new situation through extending or breaking down concepts being studied. Problem solving based on knowledge gained. Making assumptions.

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CREATING / EVALUATING: Putting together ideas to develop new products, making judgements based on new information. Puts forward theories or original ideas and designs, forms and states opinions on theories.

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It is important that higher-order activities such as those at Content Level 3 are underpinned with a solid base of knowledge — the tasks and activities aligned with Levels 1 and 2 are designed to establish and expand this. It should never be assumed that students have the requisite content knowledge, but be prepared to advance students quickly to higher-level activities if they demonstrate a sound understanding of the facts and concepts presented in Levels 1 and 2. In considering the structure of this material, it is envisaged that in the heterogeneous classroom situation, the series can be implemented as follows:

Child Ability Level Interpretation M Above Average ____________ Emphasis on Level 2/3 M Average _________________ Emphasis on Level 2 M Below Average ____________ Emphasis on Level 1 Many pages contain activities from more than one level. In this case, the TIME taken on each part will change focus, according to the outline above. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Teachers’ Notes Using the Pacemaker Packs in the Classroom Promote interest in the theme — set up a classroom learning centre that may contain: • Books and posters; • Models and artefacts; • CD-ROMS; • Art supplies and plenty of writing and drawing paper; • A “theme” table with items brought by students from home.

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Decide on the approach to the theme that suits you and your students best: • Teacher-directed with the whole class completing teacher-assigned sheets at a specified time (teacher records progress). • Student-directed with students working through materials at their own pace at a specified time (student records progress). • As an interest-based approach with students working from a selection of photocopied worksheets at their own pace (student monitored and recorded). • As supplementary materials to a unit of study.

You may wish to use this series as a Learning Centre, with photocopied sheets displayed in pockets that students can select from, perhaps set up like this:

Slots - for title.

Pockets for photocopied Pacemaker sheets.

Instructions for use.

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Before commencing, talk over the activities contained in the book with your class. Encourage students to broaden their thinking to suit the open-ended nature of the upperlevel activities, helping them to understand that there is not “one correct answer”. Outline a procedure for the activities: • How will students store and present their completed worksheets? (In a file, a booklet, a plastic sleeve.) • How can students work on the contents? (Individually, in pairs, in small groups.) • From where can further research sources be obtained? • What people or organisations might be able to help? • How and when will the sheets be available? / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Student Record Sheet

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My Main Munches

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Everyone has a different idea of what the tastiest foods are. Draw yourself eating YOUR favourite food in the space below.

Write a descriptive sentence explaining WHY you like this food. See if you can convince others that this food is fantastic! ________________________

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Write some foods that you DON’T like on the lines below, and tick the boxes to explain WHY you dislike this food. An example is given.

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Write down all of the foods that you ate YESTERDAY. In the lid handles, write a number that ranks them from the tastiest (1) to the least tasty (8).

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Related Outcome: Students will identify and categorise reasons for preferred and disliked food. Subject Area/s: Health and Physical Education (Health) - People and Food. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Time to Eat

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Place HANDS on the clocks to show the main times that you eat. Write the time in words.

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Time: ..........................................

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Draw a picture of you eating a meal at each time.

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Time: .......................................... 1] Do you eat at any other times of the day? _________________________ 2] Why do you think we need to eat several times a day instead of just once? _______________________________________________________ Related Outcome: Students will identify times during the day that they eat and place times on a clock face. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; Maths - Measurement. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Fresh Milk To You

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Most food has quite a journey before it gets to you. Milk, for example, is ... X Taken from cows at a dairy farm; Y Transported to dairy factories; Z Processed to remove bacteria and to be made “drinkable”; [ Packaged in cartons and bottles; \ Taken in large batches to supermarkets; ] Bought by families shopping;

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... before it arrives on your breakfast table!

Make a cartoon strip that shows all of the stages of “The Milk Journey”.

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Related Outcome: Students will examine the process of milk farming, packaging and selling. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; Society & Environment - Natural and Social Systems. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Red Hot Special The local supermarket has got your FAVOURITE FOOD on special. How should they advertise it so that parents will buy it for their kids?

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Make a POSTER to advertise the food. Tick these things as you include them in your poster:

l r o e t a s i B c r e e oSop p u k S WHERE you can buy it WHY you should buy it Special offers (free things, competitions, etc.)

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A picture The price The taste

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Now draw a final copy of your poster on a large sheet of paper. Make sure it has lots of COLOUR to attract attention! Related Outcome: Students will use advertising strategies to promote their favourite food. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; English - Writing. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Top Class Cooks

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Your class has decided to make a cookbook full of HEALTHY KIDS’ RECIPES. Each student will write a favourite recipe to be included. Your teacher is running a class competition to design the COVER of the book.

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Make up a catchy name for the book and create a bright and colourful design. Don’t forget the name of your class - you are the authors! Perhaps you might like to ask classmates to collect recipes from home, so you really CAN make this book! Check with your teacher if you want to do this.

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Related Outcome: Students will use original design ideas to create an eye catching book cover. Subject Area/s: The Arts - Visual Arts; English - Writing. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Fry This! FAST FOOD is all around us, yet many people worry that this puts our future health in danger.

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Are YOU surrounded by these places? Make a list of all the FAST FOOD OUTLETS near your home and school. • _____________________________

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What is it ABOUT fast food restaurants that make us WANT to eat there?

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Many fast food restaurants have now added HEALTHY food items to their menus to create more of a balanced range of foods.

Create your OWN HEALTHY SNACK that can be sold at your favourite fast food restaurant. Draw a mouth-watering picture of it below.

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Write a catchy PHRASE that will make people want to buy your new product: _________________________________

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__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ Related Outcome: Students will identify reasons why people eat fast food and consider healthy eating alternatives. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food, Health of Individuals and Populations. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Fast Facts

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Do your classmates have habits that need changing? How often do your classmates eat fast food?

Take a class tally by asking HOW MANY MEALS each week are FAST FOOD. Include CANTEEN items such as chips, pies, pizzas and hamburgers.

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0 or 1 Meals a week 1 or 2 Meals a week

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3 or 4 Meals a week 4 or 5 Meals a week

More than 5 meals a week

How many times a week do you think is a HEALTHY LIMIT? ______________ From the tally, what comments do you have about the eating habits of your class?

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You get to be “Health Teacher for a Day”. Plan some activities that encourage students to eat healthy foods.

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Write your plans underneath for what you will do with the class. TIME

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Related Outcome: Students will analyse their own eating habits and plan “Healthy Food” activities for their peers. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food, Health of Individuals and Populations; Maths - Chance and Data. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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A Muddled Meal Some mistakes have been made in the recipe for FRIED RICE.

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See if you can help out! Write the right amount of ingredients for TWO people. INGREDIENTS

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1. Add the eggs to the onion and bacon. 2. Fry the onion and bacon first. 3. Stir in a pinch of salt and a splash of soy sauce before serving. 4. Add the rice and other ingredients. 5. Boil the rice. 6. Chop up all ingredients into small pieces.

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100 carrots 1/2 a bag of onions 100 cups of corn 100 cups of rice 30 strips of bacon 20 eggs A handful of salt A bucket of soy sauce

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Related Outcome: Students will identify correct proportions of food and order of method in a recipe. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; Maths - Measurement; English - Reading. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Calligrams

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Calligrams are words made to look like what they mean. This is often done with words that describe foods, e.g.

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Now it’s YOUR turn. Use colours, interesting letters and shapes to turn these food words into CALLIGRAMS. H

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Draw some more on the back of this page. Turn your best one into a poster for the classroom. Related Outcome: Students will combine creative skills with word meaning interpretations to create calligrams. Subject Area/s: The Arts - Visual Art; English - Writing. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Food Riddles

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Try these food riddles:

1. My first syllable is found 2. on a beach. My second is a female wizard. I am a ______________

I am very appeal-ing. I like to do the splits. I hang out with a “bunch” of friends. I am a ____________________

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Make up TWO food riddles of your own. Try them out on your classmates.

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Now make a third one that is “Just Right”.

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Related Outcome: Students will use examples of riddles to create their own and self evaluate their ideas. Subject Area/s: English - Writing. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Tooty Frooty

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You are going to make the most delicious FRUIT SALAD for a class party. You might like to ask a few classmates what their favourite fruits are.

Think of a tasty NAME for your fruit salad and write the recipe below.

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Give TWO reasons why fruit salad is the BEST party food: X _____________________________________________________________ Y _____________________________________________________________ Related Outcome: Students will write their own recipe for a fruit salad. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; English - Writing. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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It’s Your Birthday! You have invited twenty hungry friends to your party. What will they eat?

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Create a menu for the party by drawing and labelling food on all of the plates. It’s OK to have some “junk food” but please include some HEALTHY options, too. Don’t forget to include your Dream Birthday Cake in the middle!

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Related Outcome: Students will make menu plans for a birthday party and identify plans to reduce confusion during the party. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food, Human Relations. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Hot Cross Words

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Complete this mini crossword puzzle. 1.

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ACROSS 2. My skin is yellow when I’m ripe. You peel me before eating me. 3. I’m a fruit. I’m crunchy. You can make pie from me.

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DOWN 1. I’m green. I grow in pods 2. You use me to make sandwiches. Sometimes you toast me. 5. The past tense of “eat”.

4. The evening meal.

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Related Outcome: Students will complete a crossword puzzle and make one of their own. Subject Area/s: English - Reading, Writing. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Lunchtime Limericks Limericks are usually about people — but see if you can make up some funny food limericks.

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Here are some foods that rhyme with lots of other words:

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There once was a lonely baked bean, Who fell off when the plate was licked clean. He was squashed by a shoe, Which broke him in two. After that, he couldn’t be seen!

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Write a limerick about one of these, or try your own food!

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Related Outcome: Students will use a limerick format to create food poetry. Subject Area/s: English - Writing. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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What I Know

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See if you can make some rain by filling these clouds with HEALTHY FOOD TIPS.

1] In the top clouds, write the facts that YOU know. 2] In the middle clouds, ask some classmates if THEY know some healthy tips. 3] In the bottom clouds, fill them with facts from BOOKS or the INTERNET.

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You might like to try our healthy foods website: www.readyed.com.au/healthy/ to help with your research.

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Related Outcome: Students will categorise information that they know or find out about healthy eating. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food, Health of Individuals and Populations; English - Reading. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Family Feast You have been given $40 to plan and buy a HEALTHY MENU for your family for one day. What will you buy? Add some more Healthy Foods Steaks Margarine Chicken Legs $8.70/kg $1.40 $2.00 each Cheese $3.50

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Potato Chips $2.70

Potatoes $2.20

Carrots $1.90

Bread $2.50

Apples $2.80/bag Milk $2.40

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Frozen Peas $3.15

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1] How much did you spend? ______ 2] How much change from $40? ______

o c . Breakfast: ____________________________________________________ che e r o t r ________________________________________________________________ s super Write your family’s menu below. Use inviting words to describe your tasty meals.

Lunch: _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________

Dinner: ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Related Outcome: Students will plan a family menu within a given budget. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; Maths - Number. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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World of Foods

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Foods from different countries can be found on people’s dinner plates, local takeaways and shopping centre food halls.

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See if you can name a food that comes from these countries and draw a line to that country on the map. Use an atlas to help you.

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Draw your favourite food from another country on the back of this page. Decorate it with a flag showing the country that it comes from. Related Outcome: Students will recognise that Australians eat different foods from a variety of countries. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food, Society & Environment - Culture. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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What’s On The Label? Have you ever read a food label to find out the ingredients?

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Do you think that these things are IMPORTANT or NOT IMPORTANT to include on a food label. Tick the box.

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Ingredients

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Nutritional panel (telling you how much fat, vitamins and other nutrients)

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Hunger Pains

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You Are What You Eat

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Have you ever heard the saying “You are what you eat”? Think of all the foods you like eating and draw a picture of yourself if you were made entirely of food.

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Food Detective

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You are a health detective that looks at the type of food scraps in people’s bins using your x-ray goggles.

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_______________________________ Do you think it is easy to tell about a person by the way they eat? ________ Why / why not? __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Related Outcome: Students will use stereotypes to match types of people to the food that they eat. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food, Human Development. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Food Dilemmas Help solve these food dilemmas by writing an answer in the other speech bubble.

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Mum... I don’t want to eat this it’s horrible!

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Food Science 1

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There are loads of science experiments that you can do with food. Ask your teacher or librarian if they can help you find some more that you can do at home.

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What to do: X Place slices of apple on two plates. Y Squeeze lemon juice all over one plate of apple slices. Z Predict how long it will take for apples on each plate to start turning brown. [ Keep checking the apples and record how long each plate takes.

X Pour the milk into the glass.

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The apples go brown because of the oxygen in the air mixing with iron chemicals in the apple (like when objects rust). The lemon contains chemicals that reduce the amount of oxygen that reacts with the apple. Try other things to stop the apple slices going brown, such as water, baking soda, lemonade, plastic wrap. Record your observations.

Related Outcome: Students will conduct a range of scientific experiments on food and select one for writing a report. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; Science - Working Scientifically, Natural and Processed Materials. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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Food Science 2 Now try these egg-speriments!

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What to do: X Hold the egg in your palm and wrap your fingers evenly around it. Y Slowly and gently start to squeeze the egg, gradually getting firmer. Z You could be surprised at how much pressure the egg can take!

The domed shape of the eggshell makes it very strong — how else could a hen sit on it and not break it? The egg only breaks if you put a lot of pressure on ONE part of it, like when you tap it with a spoon. Even the uneven pressure of a ring on your finger can break the egg if you squeeze it.

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• Food with the same texture: apples and pears, lemons and oranges, carrots and celery, avocado and bananas, olives and grapes, apples and onions. What to do: X Cut the food “pairs” into small pieces. Y Blindfold a friend and ask them to pinch their nose. Z Give them one food on a spoon and then ask them which of the pair it is, e.g. “Is this an apple or a pear?” [ How often do they get it wrong? \ Repeat without holding their nose and see if their score improves.

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Our sense of taste strongly relies on our sense of smell. We “taste” a food by smelling as well as our taste buds sensing sweet, salt, bitter and sour. Write a full science report on one of the experiments you have done. Related Outcome: Students will conduct a range of scientific experiments on food and select one for writing a report. Subject Area/s: Health - People and Food; Science - Working Scientifically, Natural and Processed Materials. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

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The Scrap Muncher

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Do you put your food scraps in the bin? Do you have a hungry dog at home that just LOVES leftovers? Use your imagination to design the ultimate SCRAP MUNCHER for your home. Will it be a machine, a creature or a robot? Will it have different sections for different types of scraps? Where will the scraps go after they are “munched?”

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The Art of Food Imagine an art gallery filled with food. What different shapes and colours of food would make great art?

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Canteen Kids

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Imagine that you and your friends were allowed to run the school canteen for a week. What changes would you make, and why? CHANGES

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SNACK - TIVITIES Sample some of these bite-sized tasks for fun.

FINDING OUT • Write a letter to your favourite food company, asking all of the questions you have ever wanted to know about the foods that you love. Try to make your letter “stand out from the crowd”— how will you get noticed?

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• Make an A - Z picture book of foods for a small child. Can you find a food for each letter?

• Make a fruit mobile by drawing and cutting out fruit on coloured card and hanging from two twigs in a cross pattern. • Think about a television advertisement for a food that you like. What are the things about this ad that you would change? Make up a new television ad for the food by drawing a “storyboard” (like a cartoon strip).

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SNACK - TIVITIES USING (cont.) • Conduct a survey in your school playground about new HEALTHY foods that they would like to be sold at the canteen. Look at the results and write them up in a letter for your canteen manager. • Draw pictures of five different ways that you could eat your lunch.

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• Write a list of twenty foods that you can think of. Cut the list up and then pull five out of a hat. Make up a wacky dish using these five ingredients as the main part of the dish.

• Use recycled materials to design the ultimate lunchbox. Decorate your creation with a colourful pattern. • Invent a mechanical sandwich maker. Draw and label your design.

• Find two food products made by different companies, e.g. two different types of muesli bar. Make up a scorecard with different categories on it, e.g. crunchiness, packaging, appearance, taste, size, etc. Compare the results of the two products.

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• Imagine that one day, it rained popcorn instead of rain. Make a list of all the things that might go wrong as a result.

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Answers Page 14 - A MUDDLED MEAL

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The correct recipe for FRIED RICE. 1 carrot 1/2 an onion 1 cup of corn 1 cup of rice 3 strips of bacon 2 eggs A pinch of salt A splash of soy sauce

Chop up all ingredients into small pieces. Boil the rice. Fry the onion and bacon first. Add the eggs to the onion and bacon. Add the rice and other ingredients. Stir in a pinch of salt and a splash of soy sauce before serving.

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Frogs legs, croissants, baguettes

Japan

Sushi, sashimi, teriyaki

USA (America)

Doughnuts, hot dogs, hamburgers

Australia/NZ

Damper, Vegemite, pavlova, meat pies, Anzac biscuits, BBQ

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