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 make
choices on
on our health
what to eat.
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 example consume more healthy
of healthy and food and cut down
unhealthy food? eating unhealthy food?

How can we make

What are the effects of people understand and
eating unhealthy food? start a good 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.