After listening to Russell Hoban's story "Bread and Jam for Frances", students will illustrate their favorite food and add it to the Food Pyramid Graph.
In this lesson students will learn that the food they are eating contain a variety of things such as nutrients, vitamins, fats, and sugars.
The activities in this lesson help students understand how physical activity burns calories.
This unit can vary according to the teacher, the children and the time allotted. It can take up to two weeks or as short as 1 week. Each step can lead to other avenues. Feel free to eliminate or use what would be successful for your children.
In this lesson students will create a Food Foldable to be used as a study guide.
In this lesson students will complete a variety of activities to learn about the Food Pyramid and the importance of eating a variety of healthy foods.
Food and Nutrition: Personal Nutrition Unit
FN 110
Personal Nutrition
Description
Explores personal food habits and beliefs. Emphasizes practical application of nutrition knowledge to enhance general health. Includes analyzing one's present diet and evaluating it according to latest nutritional guidelines. Covers basic nutrition and little or no science background is necessary to succeed.
This activity will help students learn to make healthy food choices.
After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.
This shared reading activity focuses on the importance of eating good food.
In this lesson students will write and illustrate a picture of their favorite food. Their completed product will be a page for a class book.
In this unit, students examine the question: How does access to a specific diet (nutrition) impact human rights? As students explore biological information on how the human body uses food as a source of energy, they will explore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) document, to examine the crucial question of how access to a proper diet is related to a person’s rights.
In this lesson students will practice comprehension skills as they make predictions while listening to the story and recall and sequence events. They will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.