Applying knowledge and understanding of subject topic of
different ingredients, i.e. fat, sugar, salt and fibre, in a
classroom courtroom to show how these ingredients affect us. By
developing an understanding of healthy living and the issues
associated with west of Scotland's poor health record, young people
will work in teams (as prosecutors) with an ingredient each (a
defendant), the rest of the class will be the jury, they have the
task of designing a poster and doing a presentation to show what
their ingredient is doing to our health. The rest of the class
decide whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. This will
form the basis of a presentation for parents.
Broad Outcomes of learning
• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced e.g. healthy eating,
dietary disease, nutrition
• Enterprising skills improved by developing creativity,
confidence, self awareness, positive attitude; increasing
motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions;
consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising
achievement and fostering ambition
• Developed employability skills: communication, planning,
organisation, time management, researching, co-operating,
contributing, negotiating, analysing, reporting, presenting
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons
demonstrated by working in teams, designing their own poster and
presenting their own case to the rest of the class
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making
decisions about their poster and their presentation which they have
to present to the rest of the class
• Learners have developed 4 capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
• Supports CfE Health and Wellbeing
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on healthy eating is relevant
to work and life in Scotland and how this subject knowledge is put
into practice in a real situation, our own diets
Applying knowledge and understanding of subject topic of
different ingredients, i.e. fat, sugar, salt and fibre, in a
classroom courtroom to show how these ingredients affect us. By
developing an understanding of healthy living and the issues
associated with west of Scotland's poor health record, young people
will work in teams (as prosecutors) with an ingredient each (a
defendant), the rest of the class will be the jury, they have the
task of designing a poster and doing a presentation to show what
their ingredient is doing to our health. The rest of the class
decide whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. This will
form the basis of a presentation for parents.
Broad Outcomes of learning
- Subject knowledge gained and enhanced e.g. healthy eating,
dietary disease, nutrition
- Enterprising skills improved by developing creativity,
confidence, self awareness, positive attitude; increasing
motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions;
consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising
achievement and fostering ambition
- Developed employability skills: communication, planning,
organisation, time management, researching, co-operating,
contributing, negotiating, analysing, reporting, presenting
- Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons
demonstrated by working in teams, designing their own poster and
presenting their own case to the rest of the class
- Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making
decisions about their poster and their presentation which they have
to present to the rest of the class
- Learners have developed 4 capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
- Supports CfE Health and Wellbeing
- Relevance of how curriculum topic on healthy eating is relevant
to work and life in Scotland and how this subject knowledge is put
into practice in a real situation, our own diets