Level 2 Food and Nutrition
FAN200: Level 2 Food and Nutrition
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Course Description
At Level 7 of the curriculum, students will demonstrate an understanding of family, sports nutrition and local community issues affecting food and nutrition needs across the lifespan. They analyze attitudes and values affecting food choices and sustainable food practices. While completing the theory work they gain an increasing independence in their practical applications of their knowledge and cooking skills.
Topics covered: • Evaluate sustainable food related practices in the local community. • Analyze beliefs, attitudes and practices related to a nutritional issue for families in NZ. • Analyze the relationship between well-being, food choices and determinants of Health. • Analyze issues related to the provision of food for people with specific food needs.
Prerequisite
This subject could be taken for the first time at this level subject to Literacy and Numeracy of Level 1 or at the discretion of the TIC.
Completion of Level 1 Food and Nutrition is recommended.
Assessment
Assessments will be a combination of theory and practical work, especially in and with the local community. One external examination will be sat in November.
Next steps
Level 3 Food and Nutrition
Course contributions
Parents are asked to contribute a fee towards the cost of food eaten in class.
“Food and Nutrition is more than just cooking food. Most people in my class this year have taken for granted all of the information that our teacher supplied us with and some of them are just there for the food. But Food and Nutrition is more than what those boys in my class believe: It’s a life-long skill that you can take with you outside of school and beyond and a bonus is you can pass down to future generations. It’s about the four dimensions of Hauora and how Hauora affects our daily lives, this is a very topical topic. However we also study cooking practices, food literacy, attitudes, values and beliefs, analyse the real world and the problems currently happening that are mainly involving food, it's about sustainability and how we can help the environment by making meals out of whole foods and how to make that food go further. It's not just about our class’s food related habits, we look at our family’s, our community's, and our society's food habits. But yes, there is also at least some cooking involved, related to what we are currently studying”.
Liam Griffin Level 2 FAN student 2020
FAN200 Assessment Statement 2023.pdf