This You Tube Video from Parry Gripp is a bit of fun.The lyrics are all about liking vegetables and would be suitable for an Entry level group studying Healthy Eating.
Showing posts with label healthy eating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy eating. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Healthy Eating
Food a Fact of Life
has activities for teaching about Healthy Eating
Activities 1-4
What foods do you like
What is the eatwell plate
Do you need to eat lots or a little
how many fruit and veg do you need to eat in a day
Higher level Food group activity
There are also a range of worksheets covering various food and cooking
has activities for teaching about Healthy Eating
Activities 1-4
What foods do you like
What is the eatwell plate
Do you need to eat lots or a little
how many fruit and veg do you need to eat in a day
Higher level Food group activity
There are also a range of worksheets covering various food and cooking
Monday, 10 January 2011
Healthy Living
The Northern Ireland Curriculum has a very good theme called Knowing and Growing : My Body which includes Healthy Living. The unit is suitable for students with a learning disability. It includes work/activity sheets and PowerPoints as well as lesson plans. Online activities
This can be downloaded as a PDF and the PowerPoints saved to your computer.
The unit also covers puberty and body awareness.
There is also a short slide presentation from Symbol World called Healthy Living
For learners with a moderate learning difficulty
The thematic units Learning for Life and Work : Make it Happen for you
Also see my Blog entry on HealthyEating
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Healthy or full of fat and salt...?
Rate these foods: healthy /unhealthy ?
'the Food Standards Agency's has dropped its insistence that manufacturers use 'traffic light' colours as part of efforts to reduce obesity, heart disease and other diet-related illnessess'
This 'compromise' opens the gate for supermarkets to use much less transparent methods for identifying health /unhealthy foods for example, using percentages to show the amount of salt and fat in the food.
I've been exploring convenience foods with my students and we needed to have a simple way to know if the food was healthy.
We started with McCains chips. (cooking schedule to download)
McCains use the easy to understand traffic lights system and we could all understand that green meant yes its good, amber be careful and red don't eat it very often.
Download our information sheet
Download our worksheet
We had made a good start but we weren't so lucky with our future purchases and we just couldn't tell if the microwave meals were healthy or not.
The full implementation of the food labelling traffic light system from the Food Standards agency would have been a great tool to help everyone make healthy choices. We all need the traffic lights!
- Jordans Country Crisp
- Fox's Butter Crunch Crinkles
- Danone Activia intensely creamy yogurt
- Kellogg's Cornflakes
- Heinz Baked Beans
- McVitie's Hobnobs
'the Food Standards Agency's has dropped its insistence that manufacturers use 'traffic light' colours as part of efforts to reduce obesity, heart disease and other diet-related illnessess'
This 'compromise' opens the gate for supermarkets to use much less transparent methods for identifying health /unhealthy foods for example, using percentages to show the amount of salt and fat in the food.
I've been exploring convenience foods with my students and we needed to have a simple way to know if the food was healthy.
We started with McCains chips. (cooking schedule to download)
McCains use the easy to understand traffic lights system and we could all understand that green meant yes its good, amber be careful and red don't eat it very often.
Download our information sheet Download our worksheet
We had made a good start but we weren't so lucky with our future purchases and we just couldn't tell if the microwave meals were healthy or not.The full implementation of the food labelling traffic light system from the Food Standards agency would have been a great tool to help everyone make healthy choices. We all need the traffic lights!
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Healthy Lunchboxes
BBC News has an article comparing healthy and unhealthy lunch boxes
There is also an interactive activity from the Food Standards Agency
Make a healthy lunchbox
.
Here are two resources to help in the discussion about healthy foods
Five a Day is a PDF available to download from TES
Sugar Stacks is a website where you can compare amounts of sugar in different foods. Lots of pictures
There is also an interactive activity from the Food Standards Agency
Make a healthy lunchbox
.
Here are two resources to help in the discussion about healthy foodsFive a Day is a PDF available to download from TES
Sugar Stacks is a website where you can compare amounts of sugar in different foods. Lots of pictures
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Fruit and vegetables
Here are some Milestone level resources around the topic fruit and vegetables suitable for adults with a learning disability.
Thank you to my colleague Sophie for this resource.
From Sparkle Box Fruit salad recipe sheets A set of simple visual aids showing how to make a fruit salad in 7 steps.
The Great Grub Club website has a game What am I?
You have to guess the fruit or vegetable from close up pictures. You can zoom out,making guesses as you go.
There is also an Eatwell plate in the Print and colour section
TES has a fruit and vegetable PowerPoint. It was designed by a SEN teacher to help her students identify different fruit and vegetables.
Topic Box has a link to Sort the fruit and Vegetables. An online self checking activity but ideal for the whiteboard. Fruit can be sorted by colour or peel/don't need to peel.
Counting fruit a PDF to download is from The Down Syndrome Foundation of Orange County
Fruity words is from the Birmingham Grid for Learning
Also view my other Healthy Eating blog entries
Thank you to my colleague Sophie for this resource.
From Sparkle Box Fruit salad recipe sheets A set of simple visual aids showing how to make a fruit salad in 7 steps.
The Great Grub Club website has a game What am I?
You have to guess the fruit or vegetable from close up pictures. You can zoom out,making guesses as you go.
There is also an Eatwell plate in the Print and colour section
TES has a fruit and vegetable PowerPoint. It was designed by a SEN teacher to help her students identify different fruit and vegetables.
Topic Box has a link to Sort the fruit and Vegetables. An online self checking activity but ideal for the whiteboard. Fruit can be sorted by colour or peel/don't need to peel.
Counting fruit a PDF to download is from The Down Syndrome Foundation of Orange County
Fruity words is from the Birmingham Grid for Learning
Also view my other Healthy Eating blog entries
Sunday, 12 October 2008
Healthy Eating 5 a Day
I was shopping in the Co-op this weekend and picked up a
very good leaflet (well I picked up 10 actually!)
on eating 5 fruit and vegetables a day .
It opens into an A3 wall chart.
.
I shall use it with my Entry 2 Retail students ...
Last week one of my young students ate 4 packets of crisps for her lunch and bought 5 chocolate bars for the afternoon.Another student made do with three huge chunks of Mars Bar chocolate crisp cake! It is shocking and worrying to see how little nutrition they are getting!
For some links to resources for teaching healthy eating to students with learning difficulties you can read my blog entry Healthy eating 1
Skillsworkshop web site also has a list you might want to explore in the
Realia - recommended sources of 'real' texts for whole text work
very good leaflet (well I picked up 10 actually!) on eating 5 fruit and vegetables a day .
It opens into an A3 wall chart.
. 
I shall use it with my Entry 2 Retail students ...
Last week one of my young students ate 4 packets of crisps for her lunch and bought 5 chocolate bars for the afternoon.Another student made do with three huge chunks of Mars Bar chocolate crisp cake! It is shocking and worrying to see how little nutrition they are getting!
For some links to resources for teaching healthy eating to students with learning difficulties you can read my blog entry Healthy eating 1
Skillsworkshop web site also has a list you might want to explore in the
Realia - recommended sources of 'real' texts for whole text work
Monday, 1 September 2008
Healthy Eating 1
working April 2020
If you want your resources free there is a PDF to download of a black and
white balance of good health blank plate and teaching ideas on how to use the mat (it is not specific to students with learning difficulties)working April 2020
The Eatwell plate is free to download from the Food Standards Agency updated link april 2020
working April 2020
Sensory World also has a healthy choice activityworking April 2020
Crick web has 2 drag and drop games. You match the name of the fruit or vegetable to the picture. It doesn't self correct or tell you when the game is finished but the photos are good . A good whole class/small group activity.working April 2020
Black and white clip art of food is available hereWith my pre entry students I have been concentrating on good foods,bad foods and special treats .
I've made pairs games to help learn names and signs of fruit .We have done a lot of tasting and cooking using healthy foods.
Some signs to use for this topic including good,bad,chocolate and bread can be found at the BSL site . Many BSL signs are shared with Makaton/Signalong/Total Communication
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
More from the makers of Shape up
If you liked Shape Up (mentioned in my blog on healthy eating) you might like to look at some other DVDs that Somerset Work Preparation Services has on offer: 
Germ Academy,a film about Food Safety is 23 minutes long and can be previewed on
You Tube (not the full version ).
They also have a DVD called Listen to
Us which consists of 4 short films
We all need friends
We all need a break
Listen to us
I want to complain .
The ones with a live link can be viewed on You Tube .
All the DVDs are £10.00 plus vat and p&p from Debbie Lee .Email: DXLee@somerset.gov.uk
Germ Academy,a film about Food Safety is 23 minutes long and can be previewed on
You Tube (not the full version ).
They also have a DVD called Listen to
Us which consists of 4 short filmsWe all need friends
We all need a break
Listen to us
I want to complain .
The ones with a live link can be viewed on You Tube .
All the DVDs are £10.00 plus vat and p&p from Debbie Lee .Email: DXLee@somerset.gov.uk
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