Healthy Eating

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Healthy Eating
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• Each student completed a food diary for one week,
  to record their daily eating habits.
• The students then inputted their food diary
  information into a database throughout the week.
• I made multiple copies of the food diary database
  so each student had access to all the data at
  each computer.

Project
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• Each student highlighted their own food diary
  information from the database then copied it into
  their own spreadsheet.
• They learnt how to build formulas to find out
  the average and totals of their data.
• They all created a pie graph of their average
  daily servings.
• They typed in the ideal daily servings for each
  food type and created a bar graph to show their
  average food intake compared to the ideal.

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Thinking Hats

• The students used the 6 Thinking Hats to analyse
  their graphs comment on their eating habits, and
  possible changes they could make to have a
  healthier food intake.

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HEALTH
MATHS
HEALTHY EATING
THINKING HATS
ICT
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Inquiry Skills

• Defining - Collecting data.
• Organising/Synthesising - Using the Database and
  Spreadsheet to input and organise data.
• Selecting/Analysing - Using the 6 Thinking hats
  to analyse their graphs.
• Presenting- Creating their graphs.
• Evaluating - Using the 6 Thinking hats to
  evaluate their eating habits and comment on how
  effective the project was towards looking at what
  they eat, and compare it to the ideal.

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Reflection

• Working with half the class at a time made
  management a lot easier.
• I utilised students who were On to it as
  helpers.
• I did not use Pivot tables, as the students had
  learnt quite enough in 6 sessions.
• Next time I would get the kids gather 2 weeks
  data and input the average.
• Now that the students have the skills and
  knowledge, I hope they will use what they have
  learnt next year, possibly in their Science fair
  project.