5+ a Day

Internal Assessment
Level 3

Investigate a Nutritional Issue

affecting New Zealand Society
The Under-consumption of
fruit and Vegetables in New
Zealand

ACHIEVEMENT

Investigate a Nutritional
issue affecting the well-being of New
Zealand Society
Investigate involves:
Explaining the nature of the nutritional issue
Using qualitative and quantitative
information to support an explanation of
trends or patterns and their causes
Explaining how the issue affects the wellbeing of New Zealand society.

MERIT

Investigate, in depth

Investigate,

in depth, involves:
Analysing the interconnections between the issue
and contributing factors,
Determinants

of health

(educational historical economic political cultural

technological social determinants lifestyle environmental.)
Attitudes
Values
Key

stakeholders.

EXCELLENCE
Perceptively

perceptively investigate

investigate involves:
Critically analysing the attitudes and
values relating to the issue
Critically analysing the implications of
the issue for the well-being of New
Zealand society and for equitable
outcomes.

BIG PICTURE
What

is the issue?
Whys it an issue (Cause)
What is the effect of the issue
Well-being

(personal)
Group (Families)
Society

DAILY LESSON PLANS

WEEK 6-10

WEEK 6 OVERVIEW
DUE FRIDAY 11 MARCH

Set up a Google Document - Share with MRS WHITE

Include a Bibliography (APA Referencing)

Write Body paragraph 1

Explain the issue - Summarize the statistics from Z Nutrition surveys over the past 20
years.(Use 2 handouts from vegetables.co.nz)

Compare males & Females

Compare adults and children survey results

Compare ethics data

Conduct a Class survey & Collate Data

Conduct an Interview with a family member from a different generation

WEEK 6: TUESDAY 8TH March

What

What is the issue?

Summary of 20 year trends

WEEK 6: TUESDAY 8TH March

What What is the issue?

Summary of 20 year trends
The under-consumption of fruit and vegetables in NZ is well documented
through the key results of Ministry of Health national nutrition surveys over the
last 20 years.
Although some improvement in intakes has been shown across this period, there
are still large discrepancies between recommended and actual intakes. Female
intake of both fruit and vegetables is above males intake with 70% of females
reaching the recommended consumption of fruit and 75% of vegetable
recommendation a day. Males are consistently lower with 50% of males reaching
Fruit recommendation and 60% Vegetable recommendation a day.
The data also shows youth (5-24 years old) are struggling to consume vegetables
with only 40% reaching the recommended 2 servings a day. Likewise, Maori and
Pacific populations are consuming less fruits and vegetables than New Zealand
European populations. These results are concerning as they will have long term
effects on the well-being of New Zealanders

WEEK 6: WEDNESDAY 9TH March

RESEARCH What are people eating in our communities?

Qualitative

Research (Discussion)

Exploratoryresearch.

It is used to gain an understanding

of underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations.

It

provides insights into the problem or helps to develop

ideas or hypotheses

Quantitative

Research (Data)

To

quantify data and generalize results from a sample to

the population of interest (Verdon College)

To

measure the various views and opinions in a chosen

sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8UFS5PE_Mw

WEEK 6: WEDNESDAY 9TH March

GROUP A
Qualitative Research (Discussion)
TASK: Write a number of questions
you could talk to people in your life
about consumption of fruits and
Vegetables

GROUP B
Quantitative Research (Data)
TASK: Write a Classroom Survey for
the class to give to a sample group at
Verdon college

EVERYONE:
Use Group A questions to conduct a 1-2 discussions with a parent,
Grandparent, neighbour about 5+ a day
Summarize the results from the survey

WEEK 6: WEDNESDAY 9TH March

GROUP A Qualitative Research (Discussion)

Questions you could talk to people in your life about consumption of fruits and Vegetable

Discuss how patterns or lifestyles have changed over the years

Do

you think you consume enough fruit and vegetables in your diet?

How

has your work/life/relaxation time changed over your life?

What

influence your food choices especially your fruit and vegetable

consumption. Has this always influenced your diet?

How

do you normally prepare vegetables? Has this changed over your life? Why
why/not?

Do

you prepare meals like your mother/grandmother used to?

During

your lifetime have your grown and eaten food from your garden? Has this
changed? Why? Why not?

Throughout

your lifetime have you preserved fruit, made sauces etc? How has this
changed over your lifetime?

How

has Food packaging/preservation changed over your lifetime?

Where

do you buy vegetable and fruit? Has this changed throughout your lifetime?

WEEK 6: WEDNESDAY 9TH March

Group B Quantitative Research (Data)

Questions for Classroom Survey for the class to give to a

sample group at Verdon college

What do you need to know? Age?

Do you grow fruits and Vegetables at home?

What fruits and vegetables do you grow at home?

How many times a week do you eat fresh fruit?

How many times a week do you drink fruit juice?

How many times a week do you eat prepared or raw vegetables?

How often do you eat vegetables or salad?

How often do you eat fruit (except fruit juices)?

How often do you eat vegetables or vegetable salads (except vegetable juices and potatoes)?

Scale you could use: Twice or more per day / once a day / less than once a day, but at least 4
times a week / less than once a week / never / does not know /refused.

WEEK
7

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

1. Write body paragraph to:

Describe the results of the class survey - Give statistics an discuss any
trends/patterns from the students' written responses

Write about a conversation held with different generations within your

family/friends

2. Write Body paragraph to :Explain Causes & Factors contributing to Why NZers
are not eating their 5+ a day
Determinants

of Health

Attitudes

and Values

Influence

of Key Stakeholders

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW
DUE 18 MARCH
Write
Use

body paragraph
Quantitative Data to explain the trends and patterns

Describe

the results of the class survey - Give statistics an discuss any

trends/patterns from the students' written responses

What

are the trends?

How

do our survey results back this up?

How

do our survey results contradict this?

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Write
Use

body paragraph
Quantitative Data to Explain the trends and patterns

Describe

the results of the class survey - Give statistics an discuss any

trends/patterns from the students' written responses

What

are the trends?

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Write
Use

body paragraph
Quantitative Data to Explain the trends and patterns

Describe

the results of the class survey - Give statistics an discuss any

trends/patterns from the students' written responses

How

do our survey
results back this up?

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Write
Use

body paragraph
Quantitative Data to Explain the trends and patterns

Describe

the results of the class survey - Give statistics an discuss any

trends/patterns from the students' written responses

How

do our survey
results contradict this?

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Write Body Paragraph

Use

Qualitative (Conversations) Data to Explain the trends and

patterns
Write

about a conversation held with different generations

within your family/friends
Discuss
Meal

how patterns or lifestyles have changed over the years

preparation

Gardening
Food

practices

preservation

Grocery

shops etc

QUESTIONS FOUND ON
GOOGLE CLASSROOM

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

EXAMPLE

(Paragraph)

A survey conducted in our school with a selected group of students

produced similar results via both quantitative and qualitative data.
Our results show that only 69% of students are eating the
recommended 3 servings of vegetable although 88% said they eat 2
or more pieces of fruit a day. The increased use of convenience and
fast food and the decline in home cooking has contributed to fewer
meals being prepared from scratch, thereby providing less
opportunity to incorporate fruit and vegetables in family meals.
The results surprisingly showed that over half of the students
surveyed grew vegetables at home or consumed vegetable from a
friend or family members home.

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

2.

Write Body paragraph: Explain Causes &

Factors contributing to Why NZers are not
eating their 5+ a day
Read research articles on
www.involveme.weebly.com to discover
what the cause factors in NZ are
Use information to link these causes to
determinants of Health, Attitudes and
Values, Influence of Key Stakeholders

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Determinants of Health
Educational

factors:

Education

around Importance of fruit and vegetables Prevention of

disease/weight/mental health

Skills

around preparation and cooking of fruit and vegetable

bland/boring

Gardening

education?

Knowledge

of suitable choices Why do I need variety? Fried Potatoes

are vegetables right?

Ethical

factors:

Business

or access to good food? All of NZs top produce is exported?

Controversy

around suggestions that the government removes the GST

on fruit and vegetables

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Determinants of Health

Historical factors

Traditional attitudes to food choices

traditional meals compared to modern-day choices

Varieties/Seasonal available food

Meat & 3 Vege for dinner vs Takeaways vs packaged meals/salads

Economic factors:

Influence of poverty on peoples eating habits

Organic is better?? But expensive??

Quality is expensive?

Can only afford to grow vegetables limited variety

Can only get to supermarket once every 2 weeks

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Determinants of Health
Political
laws

factors:

and government policies;

legislation

related to advertising of food, additives, and

composition of food products, labelling, e

Cultural
issues

factors:
of personal identity;

values related to traditional food practices;

Family

eating times

sit around tv?

No

time to prepare meals

WEEK 7 OVERVIEW - DUE 18 MARCH

Determinants of Health

Social factors:

Family and community attitudes

Too hard to grow vegetables

We only eat vegetables at dinner time

Community/whnau support

Peer pressure

Eat out/make poor choices with friends

Eat salads because society is telling me to be skinny?

Time pressure

Community gardens support knowledge

Dont have time to prepare - Takes to long to preare a healthy meal

Stigma of parental failure I dont want my kids to miss out on treats like I did

WEEK
8

WEEK 8 OVERVIEW - DUE 24 MARCH

WHY?

- Why it is an issue?

Nutritional
Disease

Explain

Benefits

protection

how the issue is affecting NZers health

and well-being

WEEK 9 OVERVIEW
DUE 5 APRIL

1.

Write Body Paragraph

Analyse
What
Are

factors are intersecting in this issue?

these interactions helpful or harmful?

Give

2.

how the issues and the contributing factors interconnect

you view bases on what your have learnt and quote studies

Write Body Paragraph

Analyse

and challenge the attitudes and values around the issue You opinions and reasoning
Look

at the power & influence of Key stakeholder, who is advantages and

disadvantages, are there social justice issues, what needs to change?

WEEK 10 OVERVIEW
DUE 8 APRIL
1.

Write and Introduction - Go back and write an

introduction that covers your report
2. Write a conclusion - Reflect on finding and raw a
Conclusion

Check

your Bibliography is correct