Healthy Eating HabitsA Bank of Ideas and Activities

PPT prepared byOra Freitzis

An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away:Healthy and Unhealthy Eating Habits

• Cut out healthy and unhealthy items from food packages or magazines and paste them under the appropriate heading .

• What 5 questions would you ask if you had to interview the advertisers about their products.

• You are doing a survey on shoppers in a supermarket: What would you ask the shoppers?

• Compare two commercials about dairy products. (Yotvata chocolate milk, Tnuva cheese). What is the difference between them and how do they sell their products?

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

(Benjamin Franklin)

• Prepare a report about what people in your class eat for breakfast and compare it to breakfasts in other parts of the world.

• Write a letter to Hungry Jack explaining why you think their advertising is false and misleading.

• Design a healthy menu that you think most people will enjoy using the healthy eating guide.

• Design a “Cafeteria of the Future” that will only sell/serve healthy food. What sort of signs and logos would it use? (Cut Down on Fat – Not on Taste!)

The best six doctors anywhereAnd no one can deny it

Are sunshine, water, rest and airExercise and diet

• Sequence amazing facts about foods according to your own hierarchies, using the sites:– Did you know that…? – More amazing facts about food

• Prepare PPTS, Glogters or traditional posters with proverbs and sayings about healthy life style (draw pictures to illustrate the proverbs)

• Find out about the origin of common foods (pizza, sandwich, MacDonalds, etc.)

• “Convince Me!” Game: If they could talk, what would they say? Students choose items that “speak” and convince us of their benefits.

Examples from 6th graders: If they could talk what would they say?

We are tasty, but not healthy!

Healthy food brings happy

mood!

Yellow Power, full of energy.

I am soft and sweet. I will keep you strong

and help you live long.

Put us on and start to run.

It’s healthy and great fun.

Running, jumping, playing ball.

Exercise a lot, that’s all.

Some useful Sites

Games• Mission Nutrition Game • Food Flight - Game• Explore the food guide

pyramid - Game• Health Search Kids can

make a Trivia Game based on the material in this site

Sites with podcasts • Go, Slow and Whoa Foods - A Kid’s

Guide to Eating Right

An Apple A DayA Poem by Taylor Mali