KS2 PowerPoint presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to accompany the Food Detectives KS2 lesson plan, it features starter activities, a main activity and plenary.

These activities have been designed to be flexible – you can choose how to fit them into your timetable.

Try this!

Ask the pupils for ideas about how they could incorporate more fruit and vegetables into their day. Can they think of how they could swap sugary foods for healthier foods at breakfast-time? As an after-school snack? As a drink? As a pudding?

Curriculum

Supports the science, design and technology, mathematics, computing and English curricula:

Science

• Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data (including results) in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Recognise the impact of diet, exercise and lifestyle on the way their bodies function

Design and Technology

• Investigate and analyse a range of existing products
• Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet

Mathematics

• Read, write, compare and order numbers, solving problems
• Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Complete, present, read and interpret data/information in bar charts, pictograms and tables
• Solve one-step and two-step questions and comparison, sum and difference problems using information
• Presented in scaled bar charts and tables, and other graphs
• Calculate and interpret the mean as an average

English – spoken

• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes

In the classroom

In these activities, pupils become food detectives and find out all about the sugar in food. They identify fruit and vegetables as a great alternative to foods with added sugar, and carry out a hands-on investigation of different types of fruit and vegetables. They then use this research as a foundation for making more active and informed food and drink choices within school and at home.

The activities include:

• Spying on Sugar
• Sugar Towers
• Fruit and Veg Put to the Test
• Fruit and Veg Favourites

Learning objectives

By the end of these activities, pupils will be able to:

• explain why too much added sugar in foods is bad for you
• recall the new recommended daily maximum sugar intake for their age range
• identify how much sugar is contained in food and drink products by looking at labels
• compare the sugar content in a variety of food and drink products
• explain 5 a Day and why fruit and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet
• investigate the properties of fruit and vegetables, describing their appearance, smell, taste and texture
• select healthy alternatives to sugary foods, including fruit and vegetables