1. Year 7 – PSHE
Topic 10 Healthy Life

2. Eating Well Lesson Objective
Develop a knowledge and understanding of the different food groups and what different foods do for our bodies
By the end of this lesson you will have …
Looked at your own diet and the types of food that you eat.
Planned a healthy menu.

3. Starter - Highlight healthy and unhealthy lifestyle choices in different colours.
Balanced diet
Bus to school
Lack of exercise
Smoking
5 fruit and veg per day
Non-drinker
High fat diet
Desk job
3 x 20 minute
jogs per week
Non-smoker
Outdoor job
Heavy drinker
Walk to school

4. Healthy or Unhealthy Foods?
Group Activity
On your worksheet you have 25 foods or drinks written on them.
In your group show which foods you think are are healthier than others.
Healthy
Unhealthy

5. Activity 2 - Which Food Group?
GROUPS
FOOD
Fruit &
Vegetables
Bread, other
Cereals &
Potatoes
Dairy
Milk &
Meat, Fish &
Alternatives
Foods & Drinks
containing
Fat & Sugar
Using the 25 foods/drinks again, place them in
groups on your table to show
which group they belong to.

6. What proportion of each group should make up a healthy balanced diet?
Fruit & Veg
Bread, cereals & potatoes
Milk & Dairy
Meat, fish & alternatives
Foods & drinks containing fat & sugar

7. What does a balanced diet look like?

8. How many food & drink companies can you recognise?

9. How many food & drink companies can you recognise?
Pizza Hut
Walls
McDonalds
Pepsi
K F C
Zywiec
Cadburys
Nestle
Coca-cola

10. Look at the evidence… ‘Supersize me’
Whilst watching this film write down 5 pieces of information that you didn’t already know. At the end of the film put your 5 new facts in an order of importance to you. Be ready to explain your order to a partner or the rest of the class.

11. Group Activity Design a weekly healthy meal plan for someone your age.
This should include breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Remember to include at least five portions of fruit and vegetables.
Remember to include food from all the major food groups.
Try to include as few sugars as possible.

12. On a scale of 1-10, how health is your diet?
Plenary
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