London School of Science: Nutrition's Role in Student Health Report

This report examines the crucial role of nutrition in health and wellbeing, focusing on students aged 7-18 at the London School of Science and Technology. It highlights the importance of nutrition education to combat junk food consumption and promote healthier lifestyles. The report details various learning steps, including understanding the significance of nutrition, age-specific nutritional needs, and the impact of nutrient deficiencies or excesses. It also outlines the teaching plan's delivery, utilizing seminars, group discussions, and resources like laptops and word documents, to cover topics such as nutritional components and their effects on health. The plan's evaluation involves questionnaires to assess student learning and the effectiveness of the implemented activities, aiming to improve overall student health and wellbeing.

THE IMPACT OF
NUTRITION ON HEALTH
AND WELLBEING

Topic: The Impact of Nutrition on Health and Wellbeing
By the end of the session students should be able to:
 Understand importance of Nutrition for an individual
 Understand health and wellbeing concept
 Identify ways in which nutrition can impact health and wellbeing of an individual.
 Identifying role of nutrition in recovery of an individual from any disease or accident.
Learning steps to achieve this include:
 Provide importance of nutrition
 Provide understanding of ways in which nutrition at different age can be maintained by an
individual.
 Providing information of different components of nutrition and ways in which lack of or
excess components can impact an individual
 Analyzing ways in which nutrition can impact health and wellbeing of an individual at
different age group
Class profile (including individual students’ specific need)
 London school of science and technology setting identified students’ needs of knowing
importance of nutrition.
 This will target students of age group of 7-18 students. The main aim of selecting this age
group of students is improving their overall health. This age group of students eat junk food
and it has negative impacts on them. So by making them aware about importance of Nutrition
along with ways in which excess and lower consumption of specific food can have on their
wellbeing.
 It is one of the best way though which students can understand importance of nutrition and
ways in which they can bring improvement within their overall health
Health and Safety considerations:
 Explain ways in which excess consumption low under consumption of a specific food or
beverage can drastically impact wellbeing of an individual
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Time Student
activity
Teacher
activity
Resources Evaluation of
learning/Assessment
Implementation
5
mins
Listen Introduce the
topic
Speaker By developing
group session.
15
mins
Listen and
understand
Explain
importance of
Nutrition for
an individual
Laptop, word
document with
details and
speaker
Ask questions to
students
With the help
of laptop in
group session.
15
mins
Listen,
understand
and ask
questions
Explain
health and
wellbeing
concept
Laptop, word
document with
details and
speaker,
brainstorming
Are resource helpful
in making students
understand
By developing
seminar on the
topic of health
and wellbeing.
25
mins
Listen,
understand
and ask
questions
and answer
questions
asked by
teacher
Explain
different
components
of nutrition
and ways in
which it can
impact health
and wellbeing
of an
individual
Laptop, word
document with
details and
speaker,
brainstorming
Judge teaching
method and resource
used
In seminars and
group
discussion it
will be done.
Learning needs of chosen group: Selection of students for this study and providing education is
age group of 7-18. The main reasons of selecting this age group of students is making them
aware about nutritional values. This education teaching plan can increase their knowledge in
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knowing ways of maintaining hygiene and improving health. Students of this age group of
people have junk food rather than having nutritional food. So, by making them aware health of
people can be improved as they can increase knowledge of their relatives and family members
and encourage them of focusing on health.
Meeting learning needs: Learning needs of increasing awareness about nutritional values of
food and overall health and well-being, some group tasks will be conducted. Seminars and
presentation in the class can help in meeting learning needs of students. It can also help teachers
in accomplishing their goals of improving overall health of students. For this purpose, different
seminars will be developed in which topic introduction, explantation of importance of Nutrition
for an individual will be discussed.
Delivery of teaching plan: For delivering teaching plan or accomplishing goals of making
students aware about impacts of Nutrition on Health and Well-being different activities have
been done. All these activities and session covers each topic related to the nutritional value and
well-being. By making use of appropriate tools and resources like laptop, work document all
topics have been covered. Students can know all about nutritional values and ways of improving
overall health. Different components of nutrition and ways in which it can impact health and
well-being of an individual is the main topic that can take time and deliver objectives.
Evaluation of the plan: For evaluating this plan questionnaire will be developed and will be
asked some questions. On the basis of answers of questions like did you enjoy activities? What
did you learn? How this seminar and activities helped you in developing your knowledge? BY
asking all these questions. Plan will be evaluated. It can help in knowing effectiveness of the
plan.
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