Senior course readiness criteria and pre-requisite
B in Year 10 English.
What is the course about?
Food & Nutrition is the study of food in the context of food science, nutrition and food technologies, considering overarching concepts of waste management, sustainability and food protection.
What will students learn?
- In studying Food & Nutrition, students will learn about:
- food science of vitamins, minerals and protein
- food drivers and emerging trends
- food science of carbohydrate and fat
- food solution development for nutrition consumer markets.
What skills will I learn through Food and Nutrition?
- recognise and describe food and nutrition facts and principles
- explain food and nutrition ideas and problems
- analyse problems, information and data
- determine solution requirements and criteria
- synthesise information and data
- generate solutions to provide data to determine the feasibility of the solution
- evaluate and refine ideas and solutions to make justified recommendations for enhancement
- make decisions about and use mode-appropriate features, language and conventions for particular purposes and contexts.
Course Content
Unit
| Unit Description
|
Year 10
Sem 2
| Preparation course
|
Year 11
| Unit 1 Food science of vitamins, minerals, and protein. - Introduction to the food system
- Vitamins and minerals
- Protein
| Unit 2 Food drivers and emerging trends. - Consumer food drivers
- Sensory profiling
- Food safety and labelling
- Food formation for consumers
|
Year 12
| Unit 3
Food science of carbohydrate and fat.
| Unit 4
Food solution development for nutrition consumer markets.
- Formulation and reformulation for nutrition consumer markets
- Nutrition consumer markets
|
How will students be assessed?Students will complete the following assessments:
- examination (25%)
- project — folio (25%)
- food and nutrition solution — folio (25%)
- examination (25%).
Subject type
| Assessment
| QCE credits
| Contributes to ATAR
|
General
| Internal assessment (75%)
External assessment (75%)
| Up to 4
| Ye
|
*QCAA: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority – www.qcaa.qld.edu.au