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Healthy London -pressure on water supplies
As the London population has grown over time, pressure on water supplies has increased. This lesson, which sets the scene for the unit, considers changing sources of drinking water and the relationship that our domestic use of water has to the water cycle that students will have learned about in primary school....
Healthy London Air
This resource from London Curriculum explores how statistical techniques are being applied to help solve the problem of air pollution in London. The resource consists of five lessons, covering Venn diagrams, graphs, correlation, representing data and careers:
Lesson 1: Using statistics to understand why air...
Healthy London Chemistry Visit Activities
Learning Objectives
- Students will explore a site of relevance to the topic water quality. This may be to conduct some individual inquiry work on the quality of a local water source, such as a pond, lake or river.
- Alternatively the visit could be to a site involved in the water...
Healthy London Living
Drawing on a number of leading London medical and science centres, sporting events and venues, this unit introduces the topics of nutrition and digestion, health and the skeletal and muscular systems. Each lesson offers students the chance to develop the skills required to work scientifically and to develop their...
Healthy London Living Visit Activities
These activities explore how Londoners maintain and improve their health
Learning outcomes
- The learner can compare and contrast the health benefits of given activities seen on the visit both contemporary and historical.
- They should be able to explain how their chosen...
Healthy London Water
One of the major challenges in protecting the health of people in a city is to be able to provide water that is fit to drink. With an increasing populations we are faced with difficult questions:
Would people be happy to drink water that has been recovered from sewage directly?
Do we know or care what...
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This collection offers a cross curricular approach to diet, sustainable food production and how human activity impacts upon our environment. It may be used as a workshop or as individual activities. The approaches used will enable students to come to decisions regarding their diet based on many factors including...
Healthy People, Healthy Planet
This resource, aimed at primary level, looks at diet and sustainable food production. Designed as a cross curricular workshop it links to the topic areas of the senses, healthy eating, sustainability and how human activity impacts upon our environment. Children identify some common foods using their sense of smell...
Healthy School Food
In this video from Teachers TV, Mike Baker and Sheena McDonald discuss the government's initiatives to encourage healthy eating in schools. They look at new nutritional standards for school meals as well as the introduction of compulsory food technology in schools where facilities are available.
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