How We Learn and Healthy Eating

Digestive System

As part of the Who We Are Inquiry students are learning about the digestive system - how food turns to energy in our body.  They are studying text and pictures, discussing with their teacher and class mates how food moves through our body and how eventually food gives us energy we need to learn, play and be healthy.

Learning in Different Ways

They students will then 'Show What They Know' using the 4 main learning styles.  

Verbal, Visual, Tactile and Kinaesthetic learning. 

After completing all four activies the students will be lead to reflect on which learning style was most fun, effective for learning and if they prefer one over the other.  

In the end - it is best for everyone to learn in a variety of ways.

Healthy Eating

Having studied how food turns to energy in our body, they will then be challenged to analyse their own eating habits and make recommendations to improve current diet.

To do this the students will then keep a record of the food they eat in a week and compare it to each other and to the traditional Khmer/Asian Food Pyramid.

The Inquiry will then lead onto to 'What changes can we make?'

They will apply the Thinking Hat to the idea of Soksan International School having a Break Time Cafe - run by community members in collaboration with teachers and students.

Ah, the joys of an uninhibited curriculum.