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Pack a healthy picnic!

Science Year 2
This unit is part of Year 2 Science Healthy Animals

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Objectives

Invite another class to join you on a healthy picnic in the school grounds. Make healthy snacks before you set off and share all that you have learned about what makes a well balanced healthy lunch box.

Science Objectives
i) Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Identify and classify.
  3. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  4. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

Other Curriculum Areas
Design and Technology

  • Design: design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria.
  • Make: select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.
  • Evaluate: evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria.

Extended Writing Opportunity
Information text: Make an information leaflet, for your parents/carers, about what makes a well-balanced lunch box.

You Will Need

Additional Resources

  • Healthy lunch foods from each category (carbs - enough bread for the class - protein, fruit, snack, vegetables)
  • Margarine
  • Water and cups
  • Chopping boards and knives
  • Paper plates
  • Sandwich bags
  • Sticky labels
  • Serviettes
  • Trays

Weblinks
Ideas from the NHS about healthy picnics and lunch boxes from www.nhs.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Understand that washing your hands before eating is part of a healthy, hygienic lifestyle.
  • By drawing on previous knowledge, select healthy sandwiches to pack in the picnic.
  • Record the healthy picnic in photographs and talk about their learning with their guests.
  • Interview their guests about their picnic experience.

Activities

  1. Understand the role of hygiene in food preparation.
  2. Understand which foods to select for a picnic in order to create balanced, healthy sandwiches.
  3. Be able to talk about their learning with their guests and evaluate their sandwich making.

Investigation - problem solving
Design a balanced lunch box on paper to serve as a reminder of how much of each food group is required for a balanced lunch. By drawing on previous knowledge of healthy food, select healthy sandwiches to pack in the picnic. Record the healthy picnic in photographs and talk about their learning with their guests.

Vocabulary
Fruit, vegetables, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, milk, dairy, food high in fat, sugar, meat, fish, egg, beans

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