SCIENCE,
GEOGRAPHY AND ICT
Unit Overview
Healthy Eating –
Are We What We Eat?
Healthy Eating
Do you know your
carbohydrates from
your proteins? Your
healthy food from
unhealthy food?
This unit is going to build on work which you will
cover in your Science and Geography lessons –
and it will use ICT to help you to learn about the
nutritional content of food, so that you can
become more healthy!
Unit Objectives
By the end of this unit, you should be able to…
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Create and use a database effectively
Create and use a spreadsheet effectively
Present summary information effectively
Understand nutrition and to be able to judge
the nutritional content of different foods
Understand the effect of food miles when
choosing meals
Work out the nutritional content of meals and
decide which are healthy options
How your ICT work will be marked…
Level 4 - With help, you are able to use software to store data and to
make calculations. You can search data to find useful information. You
can understand why this work links to Science and Geography.
Level 5 - You create systems using the computer, which store data and
calculates the nutritional content of meals. You can describe how and
why your works links to your Science and Geography lessons.
Level 6 - You create systems and can use them to help you to plan for a
healthy menu. You use your Science and Geography work to help you
when building the systems and when deciding upon a healthy menu.
Level 7 – You are able to test your systems to prove that they work
effectively and accurately. You create a user manual so that others
can use your systems. You can present your work and evaluate it to say
how you could improve it further. You can write sensibly about the use
of ICT, Science and Geography in this unit and what effect this work
could have upon society as a whole.
Your Task
Just imagine…
…you are in charge of the school canteen…
…you are about to open a new restaurant…
…or you just want to become a more healthy person!
You might have a good idea of what is healthy and
unhealthy, but how could you create a system which
will help you to work out exactly how healthy a
particular meal is…?
To begin, in pairs, write a list of the different ways in
which food content can be measured – to help you,
think of your science work on nutrition!
Creating Your Database
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Once you have completed your data
capture form, you can begin to design
your database which will store the data.
Use the categories of data from your
data capture form – these will become
the fieldnames in your database
Once you have set up the fieldnames and
decided upon the format of the data
type, you can then store data about
food and drink in your database!
Creating Your Database – Data Types
To help you to set up your database, there is an
interactive quiz to teach you about data types.
Inputting Your Data
There are two different ways to enter data into a
database in Microsoft Access…
The table (above) and
the form (left) are
linked together and you
can use either to enter
the data.
Which one is better,
and why?
SCIENCE,
GEOGRAPHY AND ICT
Unit Overview
Healthy Eating –
Are We What We Eat?