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Course: Children eat healthy
The fundamentals of nutrition
Admission requirements
STEOP, at least 100 ECTS-CP, "Sports motor fundamentals" entrance exam
Semester: 8
Orientation
Movement
Focus
Exercise, sport and health
Aim
The aim of this course is to create awareness about the importance of balanced nutrition in the school setting. Nutrition is understood as a key area of sustainable development towards a healthy lifestyle. Basic knowledge is acquired on the basis of current nutritional science findings and nutritional recommendations in an international context. The nutritional goals of our society are discussed in an interdisciplinary context and considered holistically.
Content
- Importance of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals for the human body
- Metabolism, energy, and nutrient requirements
- Prevention of nutrition-related diseases
- World food supply
- eating disorders
- Possible solutions for the conflict situation parents - children - household
- Self- and socially responsible living
- Need- and demand-oriented sustainable use of resources
show detailsshow lessLearning outcomes/skills
The graduates ...
- have knowledge of human nutrition and its health-related significance
- are familiar with the functions of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals and their biochemical properties
- can correctly explain and use technical terms (enzymes, hormones, digestion, metabolism)
- can classify current nutritional findings in the existing knowledge network
- are able to calculate, analyse, and optimise energy and nutrient requirements (nutrient balances)
- can assess ecological, economic, and social consequences with regard to food choices
- can understand how personal, cultural, and social circumstances influence their own eating habits as well as those of others
- are able to interpret and apply the principles of food labelling
- can produce logically comprehensible explanatory patterns in relation to health and lifestyle appropriate to their age and use these purposefully in lessons and in school life
- are able to understand and apply sustainability and functionality as key evaluation criteria
- can teach selected contents of the module in the sense of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in the foreign language English.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Environmental education
- Health promotion
- English
Teaching and learning methods
- Seminar work with workshop character
Languages
German, English
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Focus
Type of course
Teaching/learning workshop (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance/seminar paper
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