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  Senior High School Home Economics (Public Health)
Teacher: Ms Kieko Kashiwabara
School: Kamimura Gakuen Senior High School
Use of IT in Class
Place □Regular classroom ■Computer room □Special classroom □Gymnasium
□Athletic Field □Outdoors □Others〔 〕
Type of Lesson ■Class ■Group □Pair/Individual □Follow-up □Others〔 〕
Phase ■Introduction ■Development ■Conclusion □Others〔 〕
Main user of IT ■Teacher ■Student □Others〔 〕
Objectives ■To introduce the topic ■To motivate students ■As illustrative material used by the teacher ■As illustrative material used by the student □To master through repetition □To present a model □To recollect past experiences □To compare ■To examine what has been done/studied □To provide second-hand experience □Others〔 〕
Equipment ■Computer ■Projector ■Screen □Electronic Whiteboard □Visual Presenter □Digital Camera □Video Player ■Internet □Digital Contents □CD-ROM □Speakers □Others〔 〕

Point of Interest
Students can browse various materials, not available in textbooks, on the Internet.They can easily obtain accurate figures in nutrition calculation without taking time. Also, they can enjoy reviewing their dietary habits with presentation software.

Unit
Dietary Habit to Prevent Lifestyle-related Diseases
Contents: based on curriculum guidelines
Contents (3) Diseases Prevention and Health Management: A lifestyle-related diseases and health management for the elderly
* In this lesson, Home Economics contents are dealt with in Social Welfare Training.


Teaching Objectives
To provide students with an opportunity to review their dietary habits as well as to understand that late-life health is an extension of the current dietary habit.
The practical lesson will enable students to have accurate knowledge about lifestyle-related diseases and use it for their daily health management.

Lesson Plan
(1) Explain the overview of this lesson using presentation software and a projector.
Title “nutrition and health” -> Life and diet -> Meaning of diet at home -> Guidelines for dietary habits to prevent lifestyle-related diseases -> Dietary life of the elderly -> Lifestyle-related diseases and diet -> Review of the cooking lessons in the first term -> PFC(protein, fat, carbohydrate) ratio -> Problems of modern diet habits -> Food composition table -> Nutrition calculation method -> Other food classifications
(2) Confirm the nutrition analysis data obtained in the cooking lesson with spreadsheet software (and a projector).
This is to later compare the nutrition analysis done in the cooking lesson for lifestyle-disease control (diabetes, anemia, hypertension, osteoporosis) in the first term with the nutrition analysis of a hamburger.
(3) Use a hamburger as an example to consider the problems of modern diet habits. In order to calculate the calories and nutrient factors, a hamburger is broken down into each ingredient, which is weighed and entered as data onto a worksheet of spreadsheet software for automatic calculation. In addition, have the students make a PFC pie chart, overwrite the file onto the pre-distributed floppy disk and submit it to the teacher.
 
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Students are examining the contents of a hamburger. The nutritive value is being analyzed with a personal computer.
   
(4) Visit the official website of a hamburger company to confirm if their calculation results correspond to the publicly announced data.
 
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Students are comparing their analysis results with the information on the nutritive value of a hamburger disclosed by a private enterprise on the Internet.
   
(5) Introduce ”Nutrition Analysis Navigator”(Glico Co., Ltd.), another website where students can easily calculate nutritive values.
(6) Using presentation software and a projector, encourage students to think about lifestyle-related diseases, food classification, and dietary life for the elderly.

Preparation/Consideration
Since students will handle food and computers simultaneously, warn them at the beginning of the lesson to be careful not to spill any food or drinks. This lesson does not aim to persuade students not to buy food that are popular among young people such as hamburgers, French fries, and coke. Be careful not to create biased views against such food.

Reference
Care Worker Training Course, ‘Introduction to Home Economics’, Chuohoki Publishing, Ltd.
Junko Shimada et al. eds., ‘Nutrition and Cooking’, Medical Friend Co., Ltd.
Yoshiko Kagawa, supervising editor, ‘Food Composition Table, 4th edition’ Kagawa Nutrition University Publishing Division
‘Preparation for the National Exam for Certified Care Workers, 2005’, Welfare Education Collage
‘New Visual Home Economics’, Jikkyo Shuppann Co., Ltd
‘Home Economics: Complete Teaching Materials for Instructors (Let’s plan your dietary life and practice)’, Taishukan Co., Ltd.
McDonald’s Japan official website
http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/
Glico Co., Ltd official website
http://www.glico.co.jp/index.htm

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