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=Welcome= This wiki has been set up to help revise the Go4Grains Kids' Design Challenge for years 5, 6, 7 and 8.

**Please write your name and feedback on the draft documents below. The documents are linked into the menu on the right.**
STAGE 4 In the Stage 4 Challenge, the writer investigated several possibilities to include a teaching and learning sequence on packaging. The inclusion of this proved to be quite difficult without making a bigger sequence, spanning over more time to enable a proper investigation into the strategies needed to teach and learn about sustainable packaging. After several discussions with the KDC manager and writer it was decided to have the smaller teaching and learning sequence on a promotional poster.

Please read stage 4 draft unit and folio and add your feedback below:

In recent years, Australia has seen increasing levels of overweight and obesity in children and young people. We now have a situation where one in four children is overweight or obese. This is a serious issue as overweight and obesity increases the risk of a number of immediate and long-term health problems. Weight gain is usually a result of eating too much food, or the wrong type of food, combined with doing too little physical activity. (From the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy) The school canteen can provide healthier food choices that are tasty, interesting and affordable.
 * ** Stage 4 Context **

Your task is to design and produce a grain based food product for teenagers that can be sold in the school canteen. You must describe the development of the food product by documenting its progress in an eportfolio. You must provide evidence that the food product has been thoroughly tested and changed to suit the needs of the target audience. It must:
 * Design Brief **
 * 1) be suitable for breakfast, recess or lunch
 * 2) contribute to the recommended serves per day of grain based foods
 * 3) fall within the recommendations of the Australian Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents and the Fresh Tastes @ School NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy criteria, ensuring that the final product would not be deemed an ‘Occasional’ RED food.
 * 4) appeal to the target audience, that is teenagers at school
 * 5) include a nutrition panel
 * 6) fit into the cost and time constraints for the canteen. ||

Record all the steps and processes of designing and developing the food package in an electronic portfolio (referred to as folio). The electronic portfolio can be submitted via email kdc@det.nsw.edu.au for judging by 25 September 2013.

STAGE 3 Please read stage 3 draft unit and add your feedback below:

The suggested Stage 3 challenge context and brief is below. Please contribute your changes as soon as possible.
Healthy eating is important for children of all ages, particularly when growth and development is so rapid throughout childhood. Grains play an important part in a healthy diet. They are tasty, nutritious and easy to make into delicious meals and snacks.
 * Stage 3 Scenario **

Health experts and educationalists need your help to prove to kids how important it is to eat grain-based foods as part of a balanced diet.

You will have to investigate the nutritional benefits of grain-based food and how much kids need to eat per day in order to have a healthy diet. You will also need to investigate the types of food that appeal to children in your age group. Muesli bars, breakfast cereals, bread and pasta are some examples.

Design an advertising campaign that raises awareness of the importance of eating healthy grain based food and encourages children to make healthy choices in their diet. To successfully design the advertising campaign you will need to conduct research and scientific investigations about grains and your target audience.
 * Design brief **

As a result of your findings, produce an advertisement that clearly explains nutritional benefits and appeals to children of your target age group. The advertisement may be a poster, flyer, email, PowerPoint presentation, TV / radio advertisement or web tool. In all cases, the advertisement must be in electronic form and take no longer than 30 seconds to view. File size must not exceed 20 megabytes.

Advertisement and group learning folio (see template) needs to be submitted for judging by no later than **20 September 2013. **