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

UNIT 3 LET’S GET HEALTHY Target audience: Lower secondary Technology strands: Designing, making and appraising; Materials Design situation: Food preparation to support personal management systems to enhance personal diet

Technology process	Sample learning experiences	Learning process for nutrition education
Investigating	Analysing and evaluating personal diets and making recommendations for change.	Gathering, analysing and evaluating information
	Investigating which food products would support their goals for a health-promoting diet, addressing a range of factors such as social, cultural and economical, as well as nutritional factors.	Identifying enablers and barriers
Devising	Exploring options, priorities and constraints of food dishes that would support their dietary goals. Learning new skills to enable them to make the dishes of their choice. Developing criteria for evaluating suitability of goals.	Planning
Producing	Producing food products to support their personal goals.	Acting
Evaluating	Evaluating the food products in terms of the extent to which they supported their goals.	Reflecting