Project Based Learning (PBL)

Year 5: Food and Health

Using Padlet to Create “My
Food Diary” for Staying
Healthy

by Chong Jin Hui, Ng Si Rong, Loo Jia Yi

Introduction

What impact
Everyday, we do these
all make choices
choices on make on our
what to eat. health and
the future?
 Real World Problem
• Poor eating habits
• Junk food and fast food
• Persist in older adult life
 OUR PROJECT
Use a web platform, Padlet to create
“My Food Diary” to help students to
keep track on the food they eat daily.
CURICULUM QUESTIONS
Essential question:
Imagine if you often eat unhealthy
food that contains high calories,
fats, and sugar.
Do you know it will lead you to
health problems such as
overweight or tooth decay?
CURICULUM QUESTIONS
Unit Question:

What food should

we consume to
prevent these health
problems?
CURICULUM QUESTIONS
Content Questions:
Why should we
What are the consume more
example of healthy healthy food and cut
and unhealthy food? down eating
unhealthy food?

How can we make

What are the
people understand
effects of eating
and start a good
healthy food?
eating habit today?
How do we carry out our PBL?
• Time frame: 3 weeks
• Three phases:
Beginning of the project Development Closure

Phase 1: Phase 2:
Brainstorm idea Record our food Phase 3:
(solving questions) diary for 7 days Reflection
Create an Padlet
account to start Showcase
“My Food Diary”
 Padlet
(My Food
Diary)
Why we choose Padlet?
We can share
We can write It won’t
about what we
down the food disappear
ate with our
that we ate. easily.
friends.

We can install
We can insert and create our
pictures of food. diary in mobile
phone.
Is Padlet effective to help students to
create a healthy eating habits?

Yes!
We can change
We can follow
the eating habits
someone who
by looking at our
eats healthily.
recent meal.