Topic Area: Consumer health, food choices and body image
Rationale: Students live in a world largely influenced by pop culture and media that can harm their health and wellbeing, as the media manufactures the ideal body images. Students use their knowledge of healthy food habits to communicate their beliefs and attitudes and make decisions on healthy eating, diets and body image to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Students critique the validity of the media’s portrayal of an ideal body and learn to make their own decisions for their health. Students also develop their communication, planning and interacting skills as they refine their debating abilities.
Outcomes: 5.6 – A student analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people.
SLA:
• Healthy food habits
– Sources of nutritional information
– Disordered eating and body image
– Diets, dieting, exercise and energy balance
– Socio cultural influences on food choices
– Nutrition and fluid replacement for physical activity
SLT:
• explore the relationship between body image and gender, and the impact of the media on the manufacture of the ideal male and female body types
Skills: communicating, interacting, planning, decision making.
Learning experience:
Students are divided into 2 groups with a ‘for’ and ‘against’ side in each group. Students use the handouts (resources 1 and 2) which are cut-outs from magazines of “the perfect body” as a reference point for a debate on:
1. What the ideal body types is for males and females. One team will argue that the ideal body image is similar to that portrayed in the handouts; the opposing team will argue the ideal body consists of a healthier body type.
OR
Rationale: Students live in a world largely influenced by pop culture and media that can harm their health and wellbeing, as the media manufactures the ideal body images. Students use their knowledge of healthy food habits to communicate their beliefs and attitudes and make decisions on healthy eating, diets and body image to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Students critique the validity of the media’s portrayal of an ideal body and learn to make their own decisions for their health. Students also develop their communication, planning and interacting skills as they refine their debating abilities.
Outcomes: 5.6 – A student analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people.
SLA:
• Healthy food habits
– Sources of nutritional information
– Disordered eating and body image
– Diets, dieting, exercise and energy balance
– Socio cultural influences on food choices
– Nutrition and fluid replacement for physical activity
SLT:
• explore the relationship between body image and gender, and the impact of the media on the manufacture of the ideal male and female body types
Skills: communicating, interacting, planning, decision making.
Learning experience:
Students are divided into 2 groups with a ‘for’ and ‘against’ side in each group. Students use the handouts (resources 1 and 2) which are cut-outs from magazines of “the perfect body” as a reference point for a debate on:
1. What the ideal body types is for males and females. One team will argue that the ideal body image is similar to that portrayed in the handouts; the opposing team will argue the ideal body consists of a healthier body type.
OR
2. The impact of the media on the manufacture of the ideal male and female body types.
One team will argue there is an impact and the opposing team will argue the media does not influence body type.
Students write, rehearse and perform their arguments in the form of a debate. The debate will have 3 speakers to a team with the remaining group members taking notes for reference by their team speakers.
Stimulus
- Magazine collage Handouts (resources 1 and 2)
- debate
Discussion Points:
-Disordered eating and body image
-Diets, dieting, exercise and energy balance
-Socio cultural influences on food choices
-the impact of the media on the manufacture of the ideal male and female body types
-the relationship between body image and gender
-Debate form and technique
-What a healthy body image is
-Where to find nutritional informationCorrect fluid replacement.
-Disordered eating and body image
-Diets, dieting, exercise and energy balance
-Socio cultural influences on food choices
-the impact of the media on the manufacture of the ideal male and female body types
-the relationship between body image and gender
-Debate form and technique
-What a healthy body image is
-Where to find nutritional informationCorrect fluid replacement.
Resources
(Freedman,2005)
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