Table 1 CHANGE! Themes, lesson titles and content summary
Theme | Lesson titles | Content summary |
|---|---|---|
Introduction | Healthy Living | Lifestyle options, choices and consequences; eatwell plate |
Introduction: What is PA and where do we do it? | Map maker | PA definitions, intensities, guidelines for health, opportunities in local environment [mapping], types of activities |
Monitoring and goal setting | Go for goal | Simple monitoring of PA [diary/pedometer], goal setting principles |
Reducing sedentary time | Power down | Â |
Impact of technology | Identifying sedentary behaviours, when they occur, how technology has changed our lifestyles, goal setting for reducing screen time | Â |
Components of fitness | Muscle mysteries | Â |
The human heart | Simplify the concept of fitness as representing ‘heart health’, ‘muscle health’, ‘body composition’; incorporate FITT principle as means of enhancing fitness, basic physiological principles to demonstrate effects of PA on body [e.g., pulse rate, etc.] |  |
Energy balance | Keeping the balance | Fuel; intake; expenditure; balance; negative/ positive; monitoring; nutrient functions and sources |
Carbohydrate | Carb smart | Types; processing; starchy foods; why important; fibre; good sources |
Sugar | Sugar water | Â |
Beverage buzz | Terminology & types; requirement; labels; sources - hidden; amounts; added sugar; consumption calculations | Â |
Fat | Hunting hidden fat | Terminology & types; requirement; labels (graphing activity); sources; effect of cooking; fish oils |
Fruit & vegetables | Menu monitoring | Benefits (source of variety of nutrients); portions; preparation; variety, storage; cooking; access; other foods containing fruit & vegetables, menu planning |
Breakfast | Brilliant breakfast | Benefits (energy); portions; choices; sugar; salt; nutritional comparison of different types of breakfast |
Snacks (fat/sugar/salt) | Snack attack | Â |
Snack decisions | Frequency of eating; swaps; snacks at bedtime; requirements; hidden sources of fat/sugar/salt; amounts | Â |
Variety | Balancing act | Â |
Keeping the balance | Why variety needed; balanced diet & eatwell plate; nutrient functions and sources; food swaps; access; monitoring task | Â |
Awareness | Foods around the world | Food production – growing; local specialities; history; access; food miles; mapping locality. |
Summary | Have you CHANGE!’d? | Summary of principles of healthy living |