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  Introduction

It is important to eat a healthy, well balanced and varied diet and do a variety of physical activity. Variety keeps us interested but the biggest challenge is to identify what food and physical activity is best for you and your body. How much you eat and drink, and the amount of physical activity you do are also important for your health.

A good place to begin finding out about types of food and physical activity is to group them into the 5 Fun Ways categories. This is called classifying.

 
 

Task

As a class you will be classifying a selection of foods and physical activities and matching them to the 5 Fun Ways Wheel.

1. Start by trying the online interactive Everyday Habits 5 Fun Ways Wheel activity to build up where different foods and physical activity may fit within the 5 Fun Ways Wheel.

Match the pictures with the 5 Fun Ways themes. Drag the pictures onto the 5 Fun Ways Wheel under the them you think they belong to. You can only place 2 images under each theme. Try to select a nutrition and physical activity picture for each theme. Once you have finished this activity, print your wheel and share your choices with someone.

Did you find it hard to classify some of the foods and activities? Talk to some of your class mates about your choices and compare them. Remember that some of the activities you have chosen might fit into one or more of the 5 Fun Ways Wheel categories. For example playing a game of elastics with your friends could provide some variety or could be a new thing if you have never tried it before. Your reasons for classifying a certain activity might be different to others in your class.

2. Now it's time to create your own 5 Fun Ways Wheel to display in your classroom.

As a class you will be asked to brainstorm a list of a variety of foods and physical activities
  Download the 5 Fun Ways Wheel template
  Now that you have a good list of food and activities, see if you can find picture in magazines or in clipart and insert them on your 5 Fun Ways Wheel. Or you may even like to draw them

3. A few of you may want to work together to develop a 5 Fun Ways Wheel poster to present to other classes about the importance of eating a variety of foods and doing a variety of physical activities.

Continue to add to the class physical activity list especially those that can be used in physical education.

Develop your own list of activities that will provide some variety for you outside of school.

 
     
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Discussion

Display the 5 Fun Ways Wheels around the classroom and discuss why you have put the particular foods and physical activities in a particular category or categories. Do you agree? Why/why not?

Does your Wheel show a good variety of food and physical activities?

Here's a warm up activity for each day of the week that might add some variety to your PE sessions.

If you need to investigate foods and nutrition to build up your ideas of good food choices, try the weblinks provided.

 
     
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Weblinks

Kids Health
http://kidshealth.org/

Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/strateg/food/guide/

Nutrition for Child Health Nutrition (South Australia) - Your Food
http://www.cyh.com/cyh/kids/

Kelloggs Nutrition - A key to healthy living http://www.kelloggs.com.au/displaypage.asp?SectionID=1

Kids Food Club
http://www.kidsfoodclub.org/

 
     
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