SAMPLE OF SUGGESTED LESSON PLAN

Topic: 7.0 Plant And Animal Nutrition

Subtopic: 7.4 Balanced Diet

Prior Knowledge: Students have learnt about balanced diet, Unit 11: Knowing Your Food (Balanced diet and Unbalanced diet) in
Primary 4, “Go With Science Textbook”,

Links to:
Home Science (nutrition), English Language & Bahasa Melayu subjects

Keywords
Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, roughage (fibre), water, balanced diet, unbalanced diet

Misconceptions

• Many students thought that the effect of unbalanced diet is obesity only, they ignore malnutrition (underweight)
• Some students thought that fats does not play an important role in the seven classes of food
• Students think that vitamins can only be obtained from pills and not from foods.

Time Allowed: 2 periods

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7.4 Balanced Diet • Ask students to do a simple activity: “What did you eat for dinner?” In this activity • Worksheet:
they will need to list down all the food and drinks they had for the dinner the night “What did
Students should be before and then state for each food component which food type it belongs to. Then you eat for
able to: students need to conclude whether their dinner was a balanced diet or not and they dinner?”
should be able to give reasons how they arrive at the answer.
• Explain the need • The “must do” group may need to be given flash cards or word list (key words) e.g.
for a balanced diet protein, carbohydrates, etc.
• Give students about 15 minutes to do this activity individually and teacher should go
round the classroom to help the “must do” students.
• Then, teachers can select 1 student from the “must do”, “should do” and “could do”
and ask them to stand in front and explain their answers in the worksheet. This will
give students the opportunity to practice several skills i.e. speaking in English
language, improve confidence in making presentations.
• Teachers may want to give a small token of appreciation e.g. chocolates, pen, etc to
these students so that other students will be motivated to speak in front of the class
when they are summoned by the teacher in the future.
• Then teacher can give students another follow-up activity. Here students are asked to
plan a balanced diet for their breakfast, lunch or dinner by listing down all the food
and drinks.

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• State the effects Lesson 1 • Worksheet:

of unbalanced diet • In order for students to understand the effects of unbalanced diet, it is essential to “Healthy and
with reference to explain to students that there are healthy and unhealthy foods and explain why the Unhealthy
obesity and foods are healthy or unhealthy. foods”
coronary related • The teacher can do this by showing a short and simple video clip on food (not more • Casttv.com/
conditions than 15 minutes). This can be followed by giving students a list of healthy and search/
unhealthy foods with reasons given. Teachers can discuss with the whole class why obesity/1
the foods are healthy and unhealthy. • Refer to
• Teacher needs to use good questioning skills during the discussion in order to allow sample
students to think. worksheets
• Then, let students work in groups of not more than 4, to classify foods into healthy • www.insider
and unhealthy food and at the same time should be able to state the reason why it is medicine.com
healthy or unhealthy. To make it more interesting for the students, teacher can • www.web
bring real food items for them to classify. They can list it down on the worksheet. md.com
• Now it should be easier for students to state the effects of obesity and coronary • www.medic
related conditions. i
• If time permits, teacher can show free video clips on obesity which can be obtained nenet.com/
from the internet. heart_dise
• Teacher can teach these facts by using guided discovery approach and tier the ase
worksheet in terms of level of difficulty.
• For the “could do” group, if they can be given enrichment activity, if time permits it.
For example, teacher can give them to read an article on effects of obesity and
heart diseases and then answer relevant questions on the article.
Lesson 2
• In order for students to experience of a balanced diet, get them to prepare a
healthy food. Teacher should give clear instructions on how to prepare the food. Let
students work in groups and each group can prepare a different recipe. At the end,
students can get together and taste the different healthy foods. Examples of
healthy food that can be prepared in the classroom are sandwiches, fruit juice,
salads, etc. Be aware that this activity may take the whole 2 periods including
cleaning up after preparing and eating the foods.
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