FOOD AND NUTRIENTS
Subjects: Science/English
Teacher: Federica Brandner
School: Primary “Piero Bertolini” Zola Predosa
(Project: Indicazioni Nazionali IC Monte San Pietro 2014)
Sub-topic
What’s in the human body?
It’s pizza time!
Content objectives
• identifying food properties (nutrients) and their role in a
healthy diet
• identifying elements our body is made of
• identifying principles of a healthy diet
• being aware of the importance of a healthy diet
• inventing a new pizza according to given criteria
Linguistic objectives
• naming nutrients and their role in our diet
• speaking about likes and dislikes; healthy and unhealthy
food
• reading for information
• writing simple sentences
• describing and sequencing stages to make pizza
• listening and understanding instructions
Language (functions and
lexis)
“I remember that there is/are the 67% of water in the human
body”; Green it’s ok! Red isnot!; proteins/carbohydrates….give/
make/help my body….; Is it healthy? I think….; I like/I don’t like; my
favourite…
Food words; proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, fibres, fats, water,
lipids, percentage; human body; I made a pizza with…; slice, take,
add, bake, eat.
Pre-knowledge
Basic information about the human body and food education
Stages Steps Materials
PRE-TASK
Tuning in
Activating prior- knowledge
Brainstorming. The students, in groups of
four, recall some knowledge they acquired
about the content by using a discussing grid
(see annex 1): “I think/remember that there
is/are 67% of water in the human body”.
Annex 1
TASK
1. Finding out
2. Sorting out
- The students check their hypothesis by
reading a text (see annex 2) and colour in the
human body according to the percentage of
each substance: If we could assemble the
human body’s substances all in one we’d
realize this drawing.
- The teacher leads the discussion to
nutrients and activates students’ prior
knowledge by using the Placemat strategy.
Each group is given a placemat with a
different nutrient written in the centre and a
short definition of it (proteins,
carbohydrates, vitamins, fibres, fats); each
student has to think individually and
draw/write in its own space on the placemat
the foods that give that nutrient to the body;
then the group has to share the ideas and
choose which foods have to be placed in the
centre of the placemat in order to share
ideas with the class.
- Students check predictions by reading fact-
files - they discuss about principles for a
healthy diet
- What do you eat when you eat pizza? Pizza
is part of our Mediterranean diet. It gives
carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins/fibre if
you add vegetables. Give the students annex
4 and ask to sequence the stages of the
process of making pizza.
- Ask the students to invent a new kind of
pizza containing all the nutrients.
- Organize a pizza lunch with different kinds
of pizza made by the students
Annex 2
Annex 3
Annex 4
- Creating diets for different needs (sport,
celiac, allergies, etc.)
3. Reflection
Green is for ok – red is not ok!
Students highlight the sentences in red or
green according to principles for a healthy
diet.
Matching words to definitions. Students have
to cut out the cards, match words with
definitions, glue them on the exercise book
and draw some foods in each nutrient box.
Annex 5
Annex 6
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