Food Groups, Nutrition and Food Tests Save the School Principal Escape Room KS3

Finish and reinforce a middle school module on breathing and the respiratory system or revisit it prior to exams with this innovative, enjoyable and challenging escape room lesson.

Prior Knowledge Required

• Carbohydrates provide energy
• Proteins needed for growth and repair
• Lipids (fats) provide energy and insulation
• Minerals needed for a healthy body – examples iron for red blood cells and calcium for teeth and bones
• Vitamins – enable body to use other nutrients more efficiently – examples Vit A for eyesight, Vit C prevents scurvy, Vit K for blood clotting
• Roughage (fiber) moves food through the gut.
• Why roughage helps prevent bowel cancer explained.
• Importance of water in the diet.
• Examples of foods containing the five nutrients and roughage.
• Excess carbohydrates and fats are laid down under the skin.
• A balanced diet explained.
• Energy in food and energy needed for activity are measured in kilojoules (kj).
• Working out the energy in a meal.

Students have to work their way through the clues to find the code to a combination lock on the school exam paper store in which the substitute teacher has been accidentally locked in the stationery store.

The pack contains:

• PowerPoint – scene setting and instructions (sound effects and built-in timer);
• crossword;
• word search;
• dominoes activity;
• worksheet;
• code breaker sheet;
• answers;
• lesson plan.

If time is limited just the crossword, word search and domino can be used. The worksheet is the most challenging clue to solve and this can be omitted completely for less able classes.

Both 3 and 4 number combination locks can be purchased very cheaply online or the teacher can pretend to phone the school office for the staff to attempt to release the teacher.

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