Healthy Eating
How canned food can contribute towards a healthy diet

The Lessons: An Overview

Aim: To introduce the idea of healthy eating and to show how canned foods can play an important role within this.

Age Group: Key Stage 2 - Year 5/6

Curriculum Links:
QCA Science Unit 5A - 'Keeping Healthy'.
Literacy Strategy - Instructional texts, descriptive writing, designing/ writing a leaflet.

LESSON 1
In this lesson, children learn about the different food groups. They are introduced to the idea of a ‘Healthy Eating Plate’ and learn that to achieve a health and balanced diet they need to eat different amounts of food from each group. They collect labels from canned foods and decide where these foods would come on the ‘Healthy Eating Plate ’.

LESSON 2
The children are introduced to canned foods and learn some facts about them. They think about the canned foods they eat and some of the fresh alternatives. They learn all about the benefits of canned foods and use this information to design and create an informative leaflet.

LESSON 3
Using some of the free recipe ideas from Canned Food UK as inspiration, the children have to plan a healthy, balanced three-course meal, incorporating canned foods in each of the courses. They write an instructional text explaining how each part of their meal is made and then design and write a descriptive menu card for their meal.