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Life skills

Grade 1

Healthy living

Module 5

Healthy food

Food pyramid

  • Paste a picture of the different kinds of food in the correct space.

Draw or paste some of your favourite foods on the cover page.

My lunch box!

Draw or paste pictures of everything that is in your lunch box.

Assessment

LIFE ORIENTATIONLO 1
HEALTH PROMOTION The learner is able to make informed decisions regarding personal, community and environmental health.
We know this when the learner:
1.1 identifies nutritious choices from a range of commonly available foods and drinks;
ARTS AND CULTURELO 1
CREATING, INTERPRETING AND PRESENTING The learner is able to create, interpret and present work in each of the art forms.
We know this when the learner:
1.9 visual arts – engages in creative art processes.
LO 3
PARTICIPATING AND COLLABORATING The learner is able to demonstrate personal and interpersonal skills through individual and group participation in Arts and Culture activities.
EMSLO 2
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT The learner is able to demonstrate an understanding of reconstruction, sustainable growth and development, and to reflect critically on its related processes.
We know this when the learner:
2.3 names ways and the importance of using limited classroom materials without waste.
TECHNOLOGYLO 1
TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND SKILLS The learner is able to apply technological processes and skills ethically and responsibly using appropriate information and communication technologies.
We know this when the learner:
1.2 design – chooses suitable material or substances to make simple products to satisfy a given need ;1.3 make – makes simple products from different materials;1.4 evaluate – expresses and explains own feelings about the product made.

Memorandum:

Module 5 deals with the importance of a healthy lifestyle. This includes healthy eating habits, personal hygiene, exercise and ways to prevent communicable diseases.

Healthy eating habits

Explain the food pyramid in a simple way to the learners.

Use a poster or pictures to explain to the learners how food can be divided into the following three broad groups:

  1. Food that help our bodies to grow strong, i.e. proteins in meat, fish, cheese, milk, eggs and nuts.
  2. Foods that give us energy, i.e. carbohydrates in cereals, pasta, bread, sugar, jam and honey. (When we say we are full of energy, we thus mean that we are ready to move fast or do a lot of work!).
  3. Foods that help us to stay healthy and fight germs and illnesses, i.e. vitamins and minerals in fruit and vegetables.

We need food from each of these groups on a daily basis to help us stay healthy. It is, however, important to eat only a limited amount of sugar and fat, as too much of these foods can make us overweight.

Learners now complete the worksheet. They must draw or cut pictures from magazines to fill the lunch box with healthy foods. They must include something from each of the different groups. Learners can take this worksheet home and ask their parents to prepare them something similar for the next school day. Encourage them to bring healthy food to school every day.

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Source:  OpenStax, Life skills grade 1. OpenStax CNX. Sep 21, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11103/1.1
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