Swine Flu – worksheets for students at home

We are creating a series of free worksheets which you can download and use with students who need to work from home if the schools are closed.

These worksheets use The Nutrition Program to get information and each set takes about 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete.

The work is appropriate for Key stage 3 and 4 ( secondary school) and useful for students studying maths and food and nutrition.

Remember you can login and use the program on a trial basis if your school does not subscribe, but this is only for a day.

Email us if you would like more details. The worksheets are in the design stage.

What subjects can use the Nutrition Program?

The main subject areas using this program are Food Technology and Home Economics.

BUT – there are many other subjects and school areas which study nutrition, recipes, meals and diets, and their students could share your extra users.

1. Healthy Schools Initiative – use the program to look at school meals, tuck shop food, student diets.

2. School Meals – by September 2009, your school meals must meet government guidelines for nutritional standards. Our program provides the facility to check the meals.

3. Licence to Cook – analyse the recipes used on this course to see how healthy they are.

4. Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism courses – they need to analyse menus and provide healthy food.

5. Health and Social Care – BTECs and others learn about diet and health

6. PSHE – teaching about diet and health

7. Science – needed for KS3 and KS4 where they learn about balanced diets and nutrients

8. Physical Education and Sport – the GCSEs look at healthy eating and diet analysis and want students to do practical tasks.

9. ICT and Maths – both subjects need to use real data that is meaningful for students – and students really want to know if their diet is OK. There is a lot of Maths in the program and in my experience, students can’t understand the meaning of % and bar charts!

Click here to download examples of GCSE’s and other qualifications.

Jenny Ridgwell

Survey results

Click here to download the results of our latest survey.

DRVs, RNIs and GDAs

We’ve created a Help sheet to explain the terms DRV, RNI and GDA which are also found in the Glossary section of the program.

Help sheet on DRV, RNI and GDA

Guide to using the Nutrition Program

We’ve created a 8 page pdf to help you use the Nutrition program. You can download it here.

It includes examples of how to make a recipe including examples, how to make a food label, and how to make a healthier version of a recipe.