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Lesson 5: Healthy body, healthy brain: Diet and dental health

Explore the importance of a healthy, balanced diet, looking at what each food group does for the body and how this can impact mood.

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Learning objective

National curriculum

Success criteria

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Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Should work in mixed ability groups so they can support each other and play to their strengths.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should make sure that everyone in the group is involved with the task. Can describe what food groups contain and what effects these have on the body.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Elaine Bousfield,

Wellbeing specialist

Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…

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