4.9 Who Wants to be a Healthy Centurion – Guidelines

Activity title: Who Wants to be a Healthy Centurion
Curriculum area: CPSHE
NC objectives: CPSHE: 3a)

Main learning objective:

To understand the benefits and needs of a healthy and active lifestyle.
Timing Lesson plan and supporting resources
   
Introduction
10 minutes
  • As a class hold a quick discussion about healthy and unhealthy foods and meals.
  • Discuss why a cricketer needs to keep to a healthy diet and what this might include.
  • Discuss all of the types of foods we need to create a balanced diet (Vitamins, Fibre, Carbohydrates, Proteins, Minerals & Fats) and why we need a balanced diet. Look at each individual food type and identify why each one is important in its own way.
  • Use the ‘A Balanced diet – Supporting Material' sheet to aid discussion. Identify one missing feature from the diet (water) and how this is equally important.
   
Main Activity
40 Minutes
  • Open the ‘Who Wants to be a Healthy Centurion Quiz – Activity' and work through the answers as a class or in teams (organisation to be decided by the teacher).
  • Work through the questions and after each answer discuss it as a class.
  • Start back from the beginning when answering incorrectly to reinforce understanding.
   
Plenary
10 Minutes
  • Move around the class and discuss that quiz and the answers. Get the pupils to list all that they have learnt from the quiz or from the day so far.
Interactive Resources
  • The following resource(s) are available as interactive activities within this module. Click on the links below to access them from the Supporting Material section. Alternatively you can download this material in non-interactive document form from the Downloads section.

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