Healthy pizzas

Learning level/s: Years 3 and 4

Focus area/s: Food and nutrition

Description: A cross-curriculum activity where students completed a range of tasks related to creating and selling healthy pizzas. They researched healthy pizza ingredients, designed their own pizza based on healthy ingredients, created a model pizza from different art materials, costed different ingredients for selling their pizzas, and designed a pizza business with their own pizza box. They used mathematics (fractions and money) to devise the cost of their pizzas based on whether it was a ‘home grown’ pizza, a pizza made with shop bought ingredients, or a pre-made pizza bought from a shop. Students examine the health content of homemade and bought pizza and worked out which one is healthier.

Measures of success: Students examine the cost of the pizza when you grow the ingredients, buy the ingredients or buy the pizza already made from a pizza shop. They demonstrate use of fractions to work out how many ingredients should be put on the pizza to keep it healthy. They can explain why pizza is a ‘sometimes food’.