Food, Mood and Health Game - Lesson Plans PSHE Food Education
These lesson plans and certificate support the Food, Mood & Health Game, which you can find here: http://www.foodmoodandhealth.co.uk/
The video and case study show how the game can be used for PSHE and food education.
Suitable for aged 9+ (upper KS2 and KS3), The Food , Mood & Health Game is an educational board game designed to help children explore the impact food choices and media influence can have on our physical and emotional health. Lesson plans suggest follow on activities to consolidate learning after playing the game. Topics covered include:
Healthy eating and related issues such as healthy weight
Body image
The effect of food on emotions, and the effect of mood on our food choices
Media influence, including airbrushing, advertising
Factors influencing food choices, such as cost, local availability
Learning objectives:
1. Pupils understand what factors can influence people's food & health choices, e.g. media, peer pressure, cost.
2. Pupils understand that food can affect their physical and emotional health, and that their feelings/mood can affect food choices.
3. Pupils can share ways to help others think about their health & body image in a positive way.
Scotland: Food, Mood & health Game supports CfE, Health & Wellbeing
• I make full use of and value the opportunities I am given to improve and manage my learning and, in turn, I can help to encourage learning and confidence in others.
• I am developing my understanding of the human body and can use this knowledge to maintain and improve my wellbeing and health.
• I can explain the links between the energy I use while being physically active, the food I eat, and my health and wellbeing.
• By investigating the range of foods available I can discuss how they contribute to a healthy diet.
• By applying my knowledge and understanding of current healthy eating advice I can contribute to a healthy eating plan.
• Through exploration and discussion, I can understand that food practices and preferences are influenced by factors such as food sources, finance, culture and religion.
• Having explored a range of issues which may affect food choice, I can discuss how this could impact on the individual’s health
• When preparing and cooking a variety of foods, I am becoming aware of the journeys which foods make from source to consumer, their seasonality, their local availability and their sustainability.
• I am discovering the different ways that advertising and the media can affect my choices.
• I can understand how advertising and the media are used to influence consumers.
