KS3 ~ Year 8 ~ Unhealthy Diet

This lesson is designed for the KS3 Year 8 Science course, specifically the B2 1.1 Health & Lifestyle.

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This lesson begins with images of people who are obese, underweight or have a vitamin deficiency (e.g. rickets). Students are asked to ‘Think > Pair > Share’ their ideas about whether these people are malnourished or not? Students should have a few minutes to discuss their ideas, before sharing the class. The PowerPoint then moves on to identify that each of the individuals are malnourished, as they are either taking on too much/too little nutrients.

Students are now asked to consider how people might lose weight, students can create a mind map in their books. Once students have had a chance to discuss their ideas with the class, some ideas can be revealed so students can mark and correct their own work. This then follows into a ‘copy and complete’ task, where students should complete a set of sentences to summarise what they learned so far this lesson. This work can also be self-assessed using the mark scheme available.

Students should now complete the mid-lesson progress check, which is a ‘true or false’ activity. Students are given a set of statements, they should indicate using mini whiteboards/write down their answers in their books, the answers can then be revealed for students to check their answers.

Next, students are given a task which allows them to work out how much fat they are eating each week. Students can consider a list of statements, identify how many apply to them and add them up to give a rating out of 5, the higher the rating the more unhealthy their diet is.

Lastly, students are asked to write a letter to a person who is overweight/obese to give them some information about the health problems which are associated with being overweight and explain some methods which they could employ to help them to lose weight.

The plenary task is an anagram challenge, students are given a set of anagrams which are words associated with what they have learned this lesson.

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