Food Fact Finder
This teaching idea could be linked to a study about food and nutrition in Health and Physical Education.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Data acquisition, Data interpretation |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P01
Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories |
| Keywords | Data, Defining problems, Functional requirements, Nutrition, Data representation, Inquiry, 5Es |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Mathematics |
| Organisation | Weebly |
| Copyright | Dabbling in Data. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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