NUTRITION EDUCATION AND THE TECHNOLOGY LEARNING AREA PART C A FOCUS ON THE TECHNOLOGY LEARNING AREA

UNIT 5: HEALTHY FOODS MAKE HEALTHY PEOPLE Target audience: Lower secondary Technology strands: Designing, making and appraising; Materials Design situation: Food for use in the community to promote healthy food choices

Technology process	Sample learning experiences	Learning process for nutrition education
Investigating	For a target group (eg students buying from the school canteen) investigating which food products are nutritious as well as addressing a range of factors such as social, cultural and economical.	Gathering, analysing and evaluating information
Devising	Exploring options and developing plans to produce the food products.	Setting goals Identifying barriers and enablers
Producing	Producing the food product	Acting
Evaluating	Evaluating the food products in terms of the extent to which they address the nutritional, cultural, social and other factors identified as important for the target group.	Reflecting.