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Lesson
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Student activity Understanding Resources
3 Engage Students observe food brought in Contextualises
learning
Different types of food (Item of
interest) containing
Carbohydrates (including
sugars)
Protein
Vitamins
Minerals
e.g
Lollies, chips, bread, fruit,

4 Explore Dialogue: Why do we need food? Food is required for
energy, growth,
reproduction

15 Explore
Explain
Dialogue: What are some of the components of the
foods you see here?
Students start a table in books created together on the
white board (see below)
Components of
food (carbs, lipids,
proteins, vitamins,
minerals)

45 Explain
Elaborate
Students continue to complete table using information
on pg 48 and 85 and additional information handouts
(on disease)
(Students encouraged to work collaboratively but fill in
their tables individually)
Subunits, sources in
diet, uses in body,
where digestion,
absorption occurs,
deficiency diseases

Text book
15 Evaluate Students re-group and share information
PPT showing diseases
PPT (Item of interest)
2 Engage What are some lifestyle choice diseases?
Blank table

Component of food Subunits Where digestion
occurs
Where absorption
occurs
Uses in the body Deficiency diseases Examples Example source






Completed table

6 Explore Dialogue: Students suggest diseases which result
from poor lifestyle choices

Component of food Subunits Where digestion
occurs
Where absorption
occurs
Uses in the body Deficiency diseases Examples Source
Complex
carbohydrate
(polysaccharides)
Simple sugars 1.Mouth (saliva)
2. Small intestine
(Duodenum)

Small intestine
(Ileum)
Broken down to
produce energy,
energy store
Glycogen, Starch Bread, rice, pasta
Protein Amino acids 1. Stomach
2. Small intestine
(Duodenum)

Small intestine
(Ileum)
Structural
components of
cells, hormones,
enzymes,
antibodies,
muscles
Haemoglobin,
muscle filaments
Meat, eggs, dairy
Lipids Fatty acuds and
glycerol

1. Small intestine
(Duodenum)

Small intestine
(Ileum)
Cell membranes,
energy store
Fats, oils Fish, meat




Vitamins - Large intestine
(Colon)
Required in cell
chemical
reactions
Scurvy- Vitamin C
Rickets- Vitamin D

Vitamin C Oranges
Minerals - Large intestine
(Colon)
Required in cell
chemical
reactions
Oesteoporosis
Calcium
Aneamia Iron
Goiter- iodine
Dairy
Red meat
Seafood, dairy
products


10 Explain Teacher hands out assignment
sheet and explains assignment
task (See task sheet below)
(Appendix C newspaper articles to
get students thinking)
5 Explain Teacher describes HW tasks :
1. Review notes (Discuss 1
study technique)
2. Choose a topic for
assignment
3. Watch and take notes on this
video on digestion
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=s06XzaKqELk
Video (item of interest)
*Note: Students will need access to
computers and the internet for this
homework task check if this is going
to be a problem.
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