ICSE Class 5 Science, Unit 3: Food and Health
From the CISCE curriculum. 8 key concepts, about 4 days of study at 20 to 30 minutes a day.
What this unit aims at
In the previous classes, children learnt about the significance of various components of food for healthy living. In this theme, children will learn about diseases related to food habits / lifestyle, along with deficiency diseases. Harmful effects of junk food and ways to avoid them will also be covered in this theme.
Your child should be able to
- discuss various components of food required for healthy living
- give reasons of the need for a balanced diet
- enlist healthy and junk food items and differentiate between them
- suggest/find out some ways to make diet healthier
- give reasons for some deficiency diseases and find out ways to prevent/reduce them
- develop awareness regarding adulteration in food items
- find out diseases related to life style, including those related to food habits
- state symptoms of some lifestyle diseases such as obesity, anaemia, diabetes, blood pressure
- suggest some ways to avoid these diseases
- infer why sprout food and fermented food is good for health
Key concepts in this unit
- Revisit previous learning.
- Components of a balanced diet, importance of eating a balanced diet.
- Junk food: meaning and examples; adverse effects of eating junk food.
- Ways to make diet more healthy (e.g. sprouting, fermentation).
- Diseases related to food habits, life style (obesity, anaemia, diabetes, blood pressure); and symptoms of the diseases in simple terms.
- Prevention of these diseases in non-technical terms.
- Deficiency diseases - some common deficiency diseases (Kwashiorkor, marasmus, night blindness, anaemia, rickets, scurvy, beriberi, goitre); and ways to prevent them.
- Meaning of food adulteration; examples of some common adulterants (awareness level only).
Teach this unit at home
- A day-by-day plan from the CISCE concepts, so you know what to cover each day.
- A step-by-step script for each day, so you know what to say and ask (AI-written from the CISCE curriculum, so check it against your child's school book).
- A quiz at the end.
From the CISCE Curriculum for Classes I to VIII (2016). CISCE sets what is taught, not the textbooks, so schools use different books and there are no page numbers here. Adhian Gurus is not affiliated with CISCE.