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Healthy Eating (South Africa, 2011, p.55) - Coggle Diagram
Healthy Eating (South Africa, 2011, p.55)
Natural Science
Food groups (South Africa, 2011, p. 55)
The food pyramid: How carbohydrates take up the second biggest chunk of the food group as shown in the food pyramid provided by Safefood (n.d.) and how they help give our bodies stored energy.
Activity: Food Detectives! Classify different mystery foods into their different food groups by sorting them on a food pyramid and then arranging the groups from most important all the way up to least important.
Nutrients in food and the importance of vitamins (South Africa, 2011, p.55)
The functions of different types of vitamins for the body: Vitamin A= Vision, Vitamin D and K= Bone health, Vitamin C= prevents colds and flus, etc. (Helmenstine, 2025).
Activity: More Vitamin C for me! Learners predict which fruit juice contains the most Vitamin C out of all the fruit juices and then experiment using iodine solution to record their findings. This idea was inspired by The Homeschool Scientist (2022).
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Social Science
ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2026) was used to generate this sub-topic: Where food comes from
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Activity: Farmers not keepers! Learners investigate where different foods come from by matching food pictures to their natural sources and discuss how humans use the environment to produce food.
ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2026) was used to generate this topic: Food availability
Understanding how farming, transport and weather affect the availability of different foods in different communities.
Activity: Place [Theme taken from Naudé, M and Meier, C. (2025)]: Food Availability Investigation! Learners use real food items and scenarios about droughts, rain and transport delays to investigate how each situation affects the supply of food at local shops.