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Approach:  Station Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus:  Thinking critically about the intentions of visual messages.
Resources: Poster, 3 stickers.
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Questions/instructions:

Look carefully at the poster. It gives important messages.

What messages is the poster trying to give?

Try to think of 3 key messages it is telling you.

Write each message on a sticker.

When you have finished stick the stickers on the black and white poster.


% responses
y4
y8
Key messages relating to balance:
important to balance diet/foods we eat
10
40
important to balance food and exercise
1
4
Other messages:
food and exercise affect our heart
1
2
exercise matters
36
58
food matters
50
69
exercise is fun
1
1
food is fun
0
0
exercise gives energy
0
0
food gives energy
0
2
 
Total score:
4–11
4
15
 
3
4
22
 
2
29
38
 
1
23
16
 
0
40
9
Student Examples
     
Commentary:
Most year 4 students and many year 8 students missed the focus on balance entirely. Those who did focus on balance tended to mention only balancing foods eaten, not balancing food and exercise.
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