Good Feeding Habits (Primary 1)

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PREVOCATIONAL STUDIES

THIRD TERM  

WEEK 

PRIMARY 1

THEME – FOOD AND NUTRITION AND HEALTH 

PREVIOUS LESSON –

TOPIC – GOOD FEEDING HABITS 

LEARNING AREA

1. Good Feeding Habits

2. Practice Good Feeding Habits

3. Cleaning After Eating

4. Effects of Poor Eating Habits

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and should be able to –

1. mention good feeding habits.

2. practice good feeding habits.

3. clean up the eating place.

4. mention the effects of poor eating habits.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

Washing hands before eating.

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

1. Colorful posters and charts of persons suffering from the effects of eating too much food, drinking too much fluids.

2. Cardboard, crayon, sheets of paper for them to draw their own pictures.

METHOD OF TEACHING – Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. Scheme of Work

2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

CONTENT OF THE LESSON  

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES 

Teacher’s Activities – Asks the pupils, what is expected of them before and after eating? Note their points on board.

GOOD FEEDING HABITS 

1. Washing hands before and after eating.

2. Taking a small quantity of food at a time.

3. Chewing the food properly.

4. Talking if (you have to) without food in the mouth.

5. Clean up the eating place.

BAD FEEDING HABITS 

1. Talking while eating.

2. Eating too much.

3. Drinking too much fluid.

 

EFFECTS OF POOR HYGIENE 

1. Inability to grow well.

2. Weakness of the body.

3. Body odour.

4. Mouth odour.

5. Sickness and Diseases

 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Teacher’s/Pupil’s Activities – Discuss good feeding habits.

3. Teacher’s/Pupil’s Activities – Demonstrate good feeding habits.

4. Teacher’s/Pupil’s Activities – Discuss the effect of poor eating habits.

Pupil’s Activities – Tell stories of the effects of:

• Talking while eating.

• Eating too much.

• Drinking too much fluid.

CONCLUSION

• To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

• Next Lesson –

LESSON EVALUATION 

Pupils to:

1. mention two good feeding habits.

mention two effects each of:

2. Talking with food in the mouth.

3. Over eating and

4. Taking too much fluids.