Kay Cantwell's List: Year 3 resources term 1

# A healthy lunch box
# Balanced diet
# Breakfast - a great way to start the day!
# Chewing chewing gum
# Cooking up a storm - recipes for kids to make
# Eating healthy food
# Eating out (see: Eating healthy food)
# Fast food
# Food - eating and sport
# Food - food groups
# Food labels - what do they mean?
# Fuel for your body
and heaps more

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Although some activities limited to WA only many great ideas and resources are here

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These photos might be useful when talking about food advertising ....

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A German website, Pundo3000.com, has conducted a study of 100 different products by comparing the look of the products as shown by the packaging with the actual contents inside the boxes. Quoting the website, which is in German: “All products were purchased, the packaging photographed and the contents prepared and photographed too. All products were then eaten up.” and also: “The purpose of the project is not to discredit any brands or products but to critically compare the packaging advertising with the inside contents”.

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This whole website is devoted to helping kids become media smart, however this specific activity is geared especially towards food advertising. The rest of the site is worth a look also. Unfortunately from America.
# Recognize techniques used to make food look appealing on television and in advertising
# Understand that media messages and products are composed of a series of separate elements

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A science experiment that looks at the role of saliva in tasting food.

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The purpose of this WebQuest is to introduce you to the Food Guide Pyramid and food labels. At the conclusion of this WebQuest you will be able to explain the items that are contained on a food label and their significance.
You will also be able to plan a balanced meal based on the Food Guide Pyramid.

Even if the webquest is not used in this form there are great activity ideas and also links to useful websites.

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There are a number of online games and also interactive activities linked to this page. In addition you can download an entire scholastic unit based on healthy eating if you click on the link and go the 'The Amazing Food Detective' page.

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Active-Ate is a collection of resources developed by the Queensland Health Tropical Public Health Unit Network to promote physical activity and nutrition in primary schools. It was developed to contribute towards improved health and wellbeing among Australian schoolchildren. The documents available include teacher resources, fact sheets, information for parents, and 15 minute physical activity lessons for different age levels. It includes the 'Food for smiles' activities.

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A hard-cover, large-format, full-colour primary project book focusing on an investigation of rice. Two students, Emma Barnard and Tom Cho, undertake a class project and along the way discover that rice brings many surprising histories and connections to the countries of Asia.

Via a series of interviews with people in their community and explorations in libraries and on the Internet, Tom and Emma collect Fact Bites, Did You Know information, stories, recipes and anecdotes to enrich their knowledge of rice and its history in our region. In the process they gain a greater understanding of the cultural richness to be found within their own community.

The Really Big Food Project will support SOSE/HSIE, English (literacy) and Health outcomes and has been written by award-winning author and illustrator, Sally Rippin.

There are accompanying activities on this website to go with the book

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This lesson introduces students to the ways in which advertising can affect their food choices. Working from television and magazine ads, students discuss the techniques used by advertisers to engage kids with products. Specifically, they assess the importance of "spokescharacters" and jingles as effective ways to build relationships with kids. As a class exercise, they create jingles and spokescharacters themselves for the foods they enjoy.

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This interactive unit is designed to help kids between the ages of 5
and 8 recognize the marketing techniques used on commercial
Web sites that target children.

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Cinderella story is used to teach the parts of a narrative. Excellent for IWB

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