Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 10
- Year 10
Nutritional awareness
I can recognise how correct nutrition can aid training.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: fitness training with correct form will burn off calories from specific food items.
- Think: awareness of how a balanced diet supports growth, development and training.
- Feel: burning off unused, empty calories from sugar can give a sense of achievement.
- Connect: discussing nutritional habits fosters empathy and support, showing investment in each other's well being.
Keywords
Nutrition - The process of providing or obtaining the food needed for health and growth
Macronutrients - the nutrients needed in large amounts by the body, including carbohydrates, proteins and fats
Micronutrients - the vitamins and minerals needed by the body in small amounts
Common misconception
Everyone needs exactly the same nutritional plan.
Different people have different nutritional needs, at different times in life, especially when training for different activities.
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Nutritional awareness, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Nutritional awareness, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
Explore more key stage 4 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: commitment to a personalised training plan unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Additional materials and worksheets printed. pencils, stopwatches, exercise mats, skipping ropes, benches
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
