Food+and+nutrition+education+for+secondary+schools

What theWorld Eats - photo essay Time magazine (online) taken from Peter Menzel's book 'Hungry Planet'.

The Time Magazine online has an extract from Peter Menzel's book 'Hungry Planet'. It is a photographic essay of families around the world and what the foods they eat in a week. This would be great way to engage students and get some interesting discussion about the global changes in diets as well as food security issues. Families featured range from refugees in camps living off US$1.23 to a German Family of four spending US$500+. Each photo shows the family, their home and features the week worth of food on display, a visual analysis of each photo students can identify products that they recognise and also gives a great snap shot of their dietary intake for the week.

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Peter Menzel's web page where you can buy teacher resources, such as his book, posters, dvds and power point presentation on 'What the World Eats.' [] (Priscilla Tuohey)

Place the title or name of your resource/strategy for food and nutrition education on this page then create a linked page from the title to add your description and critique of your resource/strategy.

[] Dieticians Association of Australia brings an interactive game aimed at lower secondary students. This site features a virtual grocery store called Rainbow Supermarket, which requires students to use and read nutritional information on food labels to make healthy food choices for individuals and family. This game also provides shopping tips, meal preparation tips and provides basic information surrounding nutrition labels. The game involves selecting a shopping list, and answering multiple choice style questions to test student’s ability to read and understand nutrition labels. Along the way it provides nutrition tips surrounding the products selected on the shopping list. This virtual game can be used for students who complete their work early or can be embedded within curriculum to asses students ability to read food labels.
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[] Analyse your Diet Online is an easy to use nutrient analysis tool which can be used when teaching students about nutrition. This online tool is user friendly, and easy to read making it suitable to include in Year 9/10 curriculum when teaching about healthy eating. The online tool generates graphs and provides an analysis of food groups and nutrients enabling students to see not only what nutrients they may be deficient in but also which food groups they may be over or under consuming in. A potential disadvantage of the online tool is that students are required to select their foods from a pre generated list. This may cause problems if foods consumed are not listed. Additionally, by signing up diet recommendations can also be provided.
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[] This website is a student friendly site that allows students to explore the topic of nutrition. It includes interactive games and information for students. It also has i formation and resources for both teachers and parents. This is a good inclusive resource for teachers and students. This is a good website to allow students to explore individually knowing that they are within a safe environment online. This website is well suited to the middle years, so is therefore also suitable for upper primary students. (Michelle Blume)

[] Nutrition Australia is a non-government, non-profit, community based-organisation that promote the health and well-being of all Australians. Its focus is giving Australia nutritional information. This website included information and resources for Australians. Some parts of this website are not suitable for secondary school students however teachers may find this website helpful for finding information and resources. VCE students who are studying Heath and Human Development will also find this website a great resource as Nutritional Australian is covered in the Health and Human development study guide. This website gives its audience a large amount of reliable and informative information. (Michelle Blume)