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What Shapes the Food You Choose?

  • Grade 6
  • Physical and Health Education
  • 53 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC6-PH-05

A plate labelled "your food choice" sits in the middle, and four common influences appear around it one at a time, each with an arrow pulling on the plate: family (the meals you grow up with), culture (traditions and celebrations), cost (foods that fit the budget) and ads (make foods look tempting). It adds that friends, taste and time count too, shows that noticing these influences helps you make healthy choices, and ends on the recap that family, culture, cost and ads all shape your food choices.

Concept: What shapes the food you choose: family, culture, cost and ads

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

What shapes the food you choose to eat?

Many things around you shape each food choice you make.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What shapes the food you choose to eat?

Many things around you shape each food choice you make.

Let's look at four common ones.

Family matters, because we often eat the meals we grow up with.

Culture shapes what we eat through traditions and celebrations.

Cost matters too, because people choose foods that fit their budget.

Ads try to make foods look tempting, so we want to buy them.

Other things count too, like friends, taste and time.

When you choose a food, notice what is pulling on your choice.

Noticing these influences helps you make healthy choices.

Family, culture, cost and ads all shape your food choices.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 6

Physical and Health Education, Healthy and active living: influences on food choicesBC6-PH-05

Previous: Your Body Adapts to What You Train: The SAID PrincipleNext: Finding Health Information You Can Trust

British Columbia, Grade 6

Applied Design, Skills and Technologies, Food studies: factors that influence food choices, including cost, availability, and family and cultural influencesBC6-AD-25

Previous: Food Safety: Clean, Separate, Cook and Chill

British Columbia, Grade 7

Physical and Health Education, Healthy and active living: factors that influence personal eating choicesBC7-PH-08

Previous: What Different Activities Do for Your Heart, Lungs, Muscles and BonesNext: Finding Health Information You Can Trust

British Columbia, Grade 7

Applied Design, Skills and Technologies, Food studies: factors that influence food choices, including cost, availability, and family and cultural influencesBC7-AD-23

Previous: Food Safety: Clean, Separate, Cook and Chill

This lesson is also listed in Grade 7.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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