Post-basic skills module : food and nutrition / Big kids, v. 4

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ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER WORKBOOK

MODULE: FOOD AND NUTRITION UNIT: BIG KIDS

TOPIC: NUTRITION EDUCATION

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WORDS TO KNOW

Talk about the meanings of these words with your tutor. To help you remember them} pick out words from the box to say what each one means.

recipe means prepare means breakfast means cranky means

concentrate means vitamins means minerals means calcium means tiredness means

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getting things ready wanting to go to sleep

the meal people eat early in the morning telling how to cook a meal

the mineral which helps to make good strong teeth

something in plants and fruit which keeps us safe from sickness easily getting cross and angry

listening hard to lessons in school

nutrients found in the ground and in some foods

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Put words from the WORDS TO KNOW in the empty places to make the sentences right.

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a) Eggs and fruit are good foods to eat for

b) A ^~~~~~~~will tell you how to make a meat stew.

c) Our bodies need. - - - - from milk to make strong bones.

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d) Small children who are tired and hungry become

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e) Sick children in school cannot during the lessons.

f) Vitamins and help stop our bodies getting sick.

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ACTIVITY 1

Look at the Food Groups posters. Pick out foods to make three good breakfasts. Don't forget to pick foods from each group.

Breakfast 1 Breakfast 2 Breakfast 3

ACTIVITY 2

Here are some breakfasts which people might eat. Write GOOD or POOR beside each food.

Potato Crisps Fried eggs Bananas

Tea with milk Bread Sweet biscuits

Orange Coke Water

Mi 1 k Cornflakes with milk Rice

Damper Pawpaw Milk coffee

Jam Boiled eggs sugar

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ACTIVITY 3

Visit the store and write the names of all the MILK PRODUCTS which have CALCIUM in them.

Finish this sentence.

All these foods help to ACTIVITY 4

Read these sentences. Write TRUE or NOT TRUE beside each one.

1. Big kids should have breakfast before they go to school.

2. Potato Crisps and Coke make a good breakfast.

3. Foods from the three Food-groups should be eaten for bre~~fast.

4. Butter and bread have enough calcium for big kids.

5. Big kids need calcium to make strong teeth and bones.

6. Foods with lots of sugar in them are not good.

7. Drinking only sweet tea is good for big kids.

8. Kids who don't eat breakfast can't learn properly in school.

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ACTIVITY 5

a) Ask two big kids about what foods they eat during the day, b) Write their names and what they ate and drank yesterday,

c) Divide the food in to the three Food-groups,

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d) Decide whether each food gets .OR OR

e) Write down other foods which are better than the foods.

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ACTIVITY 6

Pretend that you have bought these foods in the store -

beef or steak., potatoes., onions., bananas., milk powder., oil., flour} oranges.

Write down how you would prepare a good meal for a big kid from these foods.

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ACTIVITY 7

When you tell the children about the three Food-groups, what will you call these foods?

a) rice, damper, yams, margarine, honey, bread

b) fish, wallaby, beef, milk, beans, peanuts

c) mango, oranges, cabbage, lemons, pawpaw

Write what each group of foods does for the big kids.

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ACTIVITY 8

When you tell the children about the foods which are good for our bodiesJ what will you say about the stars?

means means means

How many stars would you show the children to put for each of these foods?

powdered milk tinned SOUP

fresh pineapple frozen vegetables

milk chocolate tinned peaches kangaroo

camp Pie

watermelon

soft(cool) drink chewing gum

fish

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ACTIVITY 9

Get a large sheet of paper or card. Make up a chart showing the three Food-groups to use when you are talking to the schoolchildren. Show the foods which you can get in your own community, Show fresh foods and foods from the store.

ACTIVITY 10

Arrange for 3 or 4 big kids to work with you to prepare a good evening meal. Do these things with them -

1. Plan the meal. Talk to them about why those foods were Picked.

2. Go to the store and buy the foods you needJ orJ get them from the garden.

3. Read the recipes with them.

4. Help them to prepare the food and cook it.

5. Let them eat the meal they have cooked.

Write down here a recipe you knowJ orJ one you have found in a bookJ which you could show the big kids how to prepare.

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ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER WORKBOOK MODULE: FOOD AND NUTRITION

UNIT: BIG KIDS

TOPIC: SCHOOL SCREENING (WEIGHT FOR HEIGHT)

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ACTIVITY 1

Choose five school children from your community, Using the scales in the Clinic~ weigh each one and write their weights (to the nearest .Skg).

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*Soy here whether you think each one is the right weight~ too heavy or too light.

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ACTIVITY 2

Measure the heights of the same five children and write the mecsurements Cto the nearest .5cm).

NAME HEIGHT

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ACTIVITY 3

Here are the records of some children's heights and weights and what the Dietitian said about them.

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WEIGHT

45kg 25kg 29.5kg 30kg 33.7kg

HEIGHT

146cm 148cm 148cm 138cm 142cm

too· heavy for his height very low weight for height weight too low for height

weight a little bit low for height weight right for height

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Now pick out the right words to finish these sentences to soy what you might do about each child.

A This child a) needs less food and more exercise.

b) should eat more food.

c) is eating the right kind of food.

B This child a) needs less food and more exercise.

b) hos plenty of food.

c) may hove some kind of illness.

C This child a) is eating properly.

b) needs more 3-star foods.

c) needs less food.

D This child a) may be getting too much food.

b) may not be getting enough food.

c) may be eating too many sweet things.

E This child a) may be sick.

b) needs to eat more sweet foods.

c) is eating properly.

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ACTIVITY 4

You have sent the School Screening records to the Regional Dietitian. She has told you that one child's measurements show that she is not heavy enough for her height. You know that the child does not have breakfast before she comes to school and buys only Chips and Coke for lunch. Write down what you might tell the mother to help that child put on weight.

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ABORIGINAL HEALTH WORKER WORKBOOK

MODULE: FOOD AND NUTRITION UNIT: BIG KIDS

TOPIC: SCHOOL SCREENING (ANAEMIA)

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ACTIVITY

Make a poster for the Clinic or for display on a Community Notice Board, which shows all the foods from the store and from the bush which have lots of iron in them.

You could make a heading like this :-

THESE FOODS MAKE.STRONG BLOOD