Pre-planning
Carolyn has found the Healthy Food Guide a good classroom resource, and comments that she often observes students reading it. The magazine has an Extreme Makeover section, in which a popular recipe is made into a healthier version. She thought this could be the basis of a good unit and, giving students the knowledge and skills to adapt recipes and make them more wholesome, an important life skill.
Carolyn contacted the magazine's editor Niki Bezzant and suggested that she might like to visit and work with the Year 11 class on an Extreme Makeover unit, explaining how this type of involvement helps make a project more real for the students. Niki was happy to oblige and said that the magazine management considers this sort of collaboration an important part of their work.
This unit was delivered in 2007 to a mixed-ability class.
