Educative training program
Addressed to
- Fifth grade students.
Length
- Three one-hour sessions
- In the first two sessions we will work with the contents of the website.
- In the last one we will do the learning evaluation activity.
Aims
- To know the major food groups.
- To know the different kind of nutrients.
- To know the function of foods.
- To know the optimum distribution of nutrients and foods of a balanced diet.
Skills to work
- To identify correctly the elements of a balanced diet and their frequency of ingestion:
- Food groups
- Types of nutrients
- An optimum distribution of nutrients/foods in a balanced diet (food guide pyramid).
- Relationship between nutrients and types of foods.
- To know the advantages and disadvantages of a balanced/unbalanced diet.
- Fair distribution of nutrients.
- Disease prevention (due to either the lack or excess of nutrients)
- Healthy life
Methodology
This training action will be developed under an education program called Blended Learning. It combines both in-person sessions and online training.
We have activated a website to gain access to the contents and syllabus of the project, so that the student body can access either through an IWB while they are in class or when they are at home. These multimedia contents combine text, video, online exercises and activities to correct themselves.
The methodological strategy we have conceived for this project combines typical elements of constructivism, cognitive science and behaviourism, so that we can conform to the diverse learning styles – assimilating, accommodating or converging - that may predominate in each class.
Evaluation
In order to evaluate if the skills described above have been acquired, we have planned a school competition. It will take place in class and will be about drawing a picture of the topic as described in the requirements of the competition. Students and teachers will decide the drawing technique as well as the materials that will be allowed to use.