Sophie's Sugar Smart Day PowerPoint presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to accompany the Food Detectives KS1 lesson plan, for the Sophie’s Sugar Smart Day activity.

A fun and engaging story to get children thinking about how they can make swaps to healthier alternative throughout the day.

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A fun and engaging story to get children thinking about how they can make swaps to healthier alternative throughout the day.

Curriculum

Supports the design and technology, science and English curricula.

Design and Technology

• Explore and evaluate a range of existing products

Science

• Say which part of the body is associated with each sense
• Describe the importance of eating the right amounts of different types of food
• Perform simple tests
• Identify and classify
• Identify and name a variety of everyday materials
• Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials

English – spoken

• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes
• Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints

In the classroom

Read through the story in the presentation and ask the pupils to decide what Sophie should eat and drink from breakfast through to bedtime. They have seven choices to help Sophie make – encourage them to share their views as a class. You could take a vote each time, so that all the pupils feel involved in the decision making.

The story features four different swap moments throughout the day:

• Breakfast swap
• Drinks swap
• After school snack swap
• Pudding swap

Learning objectives

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

• explain why fruit and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet, are a good sugar swap and why they are important to their 5 a Days
• understand and compare the sugar content in a variety of food and drink products
• select lower-sugar alternatives to high-sugar products