Healthy Classroom Courtroom

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

 

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