Breakfast Around the World (Educator)

LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY

BREAKFAST AROUND THE WORLD

By Nik Peachey

LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY

BREAKFAST AROUND THE WORLD

This lesson is based on an infographic about the different things that people eat for breakfast around the world.

In the lesson students will develop an awareness of the importance of having a good breakfast and they will also have the opportunity to do online research into facts about food and create their own questionnaires. At the end of the lesson they can write a short article about what they have learned from their research.

By Nik Peachey

LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY

BREAKFAST AROUND THE WORLD

By Nik Peachey

BREAKFAST AROUND THE WORLD

INTRODUCTION

In the lesson students will find out about the different things people usually have for breakfast in different countries and they will develop an awareness of the importance of having a good breakfast.

Aims:

• To develop students’ abilities to think critically and form informed opinions.

• To develop students’ abilities to understand statistical information.

• To develop students’ abilities to check the credibility of online information.

• To develop students’ abilities to carry out and create online research and to represent their findings visually.

• To develop students’ abilities to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings.

LESSON PLAN

Resources

• You can access the trainer’s version of the presentation here: https://bit.ly/2OA6wLP

• You can access the students’ version of the presentation here: https://bit.ly/2OEnKI5

• The infographic can be accessed through the presentation or at: http://tinyurl.com/o7edeft or by clicking or scanning the QR code.

How to use this plan

The materials in this plan can be used in different ways. The first four tasks can be used independently as a simple reading and discussion lesson.

The final four tasks can be used selectively as follow up task or you can use all four tasks as an ongoing project over the course of a number of lessons.

This lesson contains eight tasks:

• A discussion task that gets students thinking about the food they eat and food from other countries.

• A reading task that develops students’ abilities to scan read text for specific information.

• A reading task that encourages students to read for deeper comprehension and to check information.

• A discussion task that gives students the opportunity to respond to the information more personally.

• A social research task that gets students to create a questionnaire to find out about the breakfast habits of the their friends.

• An online research task that encourages students to check the accuracy of information they find online.

• An online research task that gets students to find out more about food and create an online quiz.

• A writing task which gives students the opportunity to consolidate their learning in the form of a blog article.

Discussion Task - Food in your home

• The aim of this task is to get students thinking about foods from other countries and the food they like to eat.

Start the lesson by putting the students into pairs or groups and giving them the discussion questions. This should help to get the students thinking, talking and sharing their knowledge of different foods.

Once they have finished talking you can do a brief plenary session with the whole group.

The seventh question is on the next slide of the presentation which shows the students images of the food and they can try to identify them.

Discussion Task - Food in your home

Ask and answer these questions.

1. Which is your favorite meal of the day? Why?

2. What do you usually have for breakfast?

3. Who makes breakfast in your home?

4. What things do you like to cook?

5. Do you eat to live or live to eat?

6. What foods do you like from other countries?

7. What do you know about these dishes?

• Tagine

• Natto

• Vegemite

• Appam - Hoppers

• Tarhana

• Boerewors

• Yerba Mate

• Nasi Lemak

Reading Task - Understanding statistics

• The aim of this task is to develop students’ abilities to scan read for specific facts and information.

Give the students the reading task. Ask them to look at the statistics and try to find out what they refer to in the infographic.

Once they have had some time to find the information, put them in pairs or small groups and ask them to compare their answers and share what they have discovered. Have a short plenary session and confirm and clarify their answers.

Reading Task - Understanding statistics Study the infographic.

1. What do these statistics refer to?

• 22 million

• 6 hours

• 1,688 feet

• 11 pounds

2. Find five reasons why eating breakfast is good for you.

Answers:

1.

• 22 million = The number of jars of vegemite produced each year.

• 6 hours = The length of time beans are steamed to make natto.

• 1,688 feet = The longest boerewors.

• 11 pounds = The amount of yerba mate consumed by each Argentinian in a year.

2.

• 34% less likely to develop diabetes

• Less likely to become obese

• Eat more healthily through the rest of the day

• Score higher in maths tests

Reading Task - Ingredients

• The aim of this task is to develop students’ ability to read for deeper understanding and to find specific information.

Give the students the reading task. Ask them to read and find out which of the ingredients goes into each dish.

Once they have had time to check the information, put them in pairs or small groups and ask them to compare their answers and share what they have discovered.

Have a short plenary session and confirm and clarify their answers.

Reading task - Ingredients

Read again and match these ingredients to the different dishes.

Discussion Task - Your breakfast

• The aim of this activity is to get the students to think more deeply about the information and how it relates to their own lives and to share their responses to it.

Give the students the discussion task and put them into small groups to interview each other.

Once they have discussed the questions in their groups you might want to have a whole class plenary session.

Discussion Task - Your breakfast

Ask and answer these questions in pairs.

1. Which breakfast is most like your own?

2. Which breakfast would you most like to try? Why?

3. Which breakfast would you least like to try? Why? 4. Which breakfast do you think is most healthy? Why? 5. Will you be more likely to eat breakfast now?

6. Who would you like to share the infographic with? Why?

7. What would you like to remember from this infographic? Why?

Social Research Task - Your breakfast

• The aim of this task is to develop students’ abilities to create research questionnaires and present their results.

Tell the students you want them to create a questionnaire to find out how important people think breakfast is and which foods are most popular for breakfast.

Get the students to think about the design of their questionnaire and the questions they will ask.

Once they have the questions ask them to create a questionnaire. They can use one of these tools:

• https://www.typeform.com/

• https://docs.google.com/forms

Ask them to share the questionnaire online through their social network contacts or through friends, family and other students in the class.

Once they have collected the responses ask them to create an infographic to show the results of their research. They can use one of these tools to create the infographic:

• https://genial.ly

• https://www.draw.io/

• https://www.visme.co/

Social Research Task - Your breakfast

Create a questionnaire to find out about breakfast attitudes and habits.

Think of ten questions you want to ask.

Create a questionnaire using one of these tools:

• https://www.typeform.com/

• https://docs.google.com/forms

Share the questionnaire with your classmates, family and friends.

Once you have collected the results you can create a presentation or infographic to share what you discovered.

You can use one of these tools:

• https://genial.ly

• https://www.draw.io/

• https://www.visme.co/

Research Task - The healthy breakfast

• The aim of this task is to develop students’ abilities to check the accuracy of information online.

Ask the students if they believe all of the health claims made in the infographic.

Tell them you want them to do some online research to find sources which support or contradict the information.

Tell them to make notes and keep a record of the sources of the information they find.

Once they have completed this work you could ask them to create a short presentation showing the results of their research. They could use one of these tools to do this:

• https://genial.ly

• http://presentationtube.com/

• http://www.classtools.net/qwikslides/

Research Task - The healthy breakfast

Try to find out if the information in the infographic is true.

Research some of the facts presented in the infographic.

Try to find sources of information that either support or contradict the facts.

Make notes of the information you find. Be sure to record:

• URL

• Name of website or publication

• Name of author

• Date of publication

• Your opinion of the credibility of the source.

Make short presentation to show the results of your research.

Online Research Task - Food trivia

• The aim of this task is to develop students’ ability to do simple online research.

Tell the students you want them to create a food trivia quiz to test people’s knowledge of food.

Tell them they should first do some research to find some interesting facts.

Give them this list of sites if you want to restrict where they search for the information:

Give some examples of questions:

• http://www.factslides.com/s-Food

• http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/

• http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/ sciencefacts/food.html

• http://www.mrbreakfast.com/ glossary_term.asp?glossaryID=152

If you would prefer them to have more freedom but still stay safe you can use an education specific search engine. Here are some options:

• http://www.kiddle.co/

• http://www.sweetsearch.com/

Once they have done their research ask them to create an online questionnaire using one of these tools:

• https://www.typeform.com/

• https://docs.google.com/forms

Once the questionnaires are ready they can then share them with each other and their social media contacts and friends.

Online research task - Food trivia

Create a food trivia quiz to find out what people know about the food they eat. You can use these websites to do some research first:

• http://www.factslides.com/s-Food

• http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/

• http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/ sciencefacts/food.html

• http://www.mrbreakfast.com/ glossary_term.asp?glossaryID=152

Once you have found some interesting facts, write ten questions to test people’s knowledge. Use your questions to create an online questionnaire using one of these tools:

• http://www.typeform.com/

• http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Share your questionnaires with other students or through social media and collect your results.

• Conclusion - explaining why it’s important to know about the food you eat.

Students could do the writing part of the task at home or in class.

Once the students have done a first draft you could give them a study partner and ask them to peer edit their texts.

They could then review the text before submitting it to you.

Here are some tips you could give the students on peer reviewing:

• Be positive and look for what you like about the text.

• Identify any spelling or grammatical errors.

• Identify anything you feel wasn’t clear.

• Think about whether the tone of the text is consistent and appropriate for the reader.

• Has the writer avoided mixing formal and informal styles?

• Has the writer completed the task with all five parts of the article?

If you want your students to be able to publish a final draft of their article you can use one of these blogging platforms:

• http://www.kidblog.org/

• http://blogger.com/

Writing task - Food facts

• The aim of this task is to develop students’ writing skills and also to pull together and consolidate what they have learned from the lesson tasks.

Tell the students you want them to write an article for a health blog. Tell them to give it the title ‘Food facts’.

Tell them to structure the article in five sections:

• Introduction - saying what the article is about

• Food facts - sharing some of the information you have learned

Or save their articles as PDF and then share them using one of these online publishing platforms:

• https://www.scribd.com/

• http://www.issuu.com/

Writing task - Food facts

Write an article for an online food magazine.

Give the article the title - Food facts

Structure the article with 3 main paragraphs.

• Introduction - saying what the article is about

• Food facts - sharing some of the information you have learned

• Conclusion - explaining why it’s important to know about the food you eat.

Find some images to illustrate your article.

Exchange the first draft of your article with another student and get and give some suggestions about how you can improve it.

Create a final draft.

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