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'Got Milk?' or 'Not Milk!'? - That Is the Question! Critically Analyzing Information about Dairy Products on the Internet
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In this lesson, students critically analyze Web sites that present different sides of the controversial milk debate (good for you/not good for you). Students will
brainstorm a list of common foods and their known health benefits and risks.
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A Dairy Treat Day
Building Body-Building Snacks and Meals
Choose Health Snacks
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In this lesson children understand the important role nutritious snacks play in their daily diet. Students will become familiar with using the Food Guide Pyramid when selecting snacks.
Students will be able to identify the characteristics of a healthy snack.
Students will become aware of the diverse factors that affect food choices.
Students will become familiar with proper safety and sanitation practices when preparing food
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Eating Over the Rainbow: Learning How Color is Considered in Choosing a Healthful Diet of Fruits and Vegetables
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In this lesson, students first examine their own diets, and then redesign the USDA's Food Pyramid to reflect nutrition experts' latest advice. Students examine the USDA's Food Pyramid; redesign the pyramid to reflect their typical diets. Learn about how nutrition experts are stressing the importance of a diet's variety of colorful fruits and vegetables by reading and discussing "The Color of Nutrition: Fruits and Vegetables." Research the different color categories of fruits and vegetables; identify recipes that feature these fruits and vegetables.
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Five Dairy Cows
Fruitful Questions: Posing and Answering Food Science Questions
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In this lesson, students examine a fruit-related Q & A Science Times article. Students then write their own food science questions and then answer them in the same format as the article. For homework, they analyze their fruit consumption according to U.S. nutrition guidelines.
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Junk Food Jungle
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This lesson familiarizes children with the nutritional value of foods advertised on television and in magazines. The lesson begins with a class discussion about different types of foods and where snack food fits into a healthy diet. Students then compare TV's version of a great meal to the kinds of foods that their mothers would recommend, and categorize the foods they enjoy according to whether or not they would be considered part of a healthy diet. In groups, students survey television and magazine food ads to determine what types of foods are promoted most often.
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Learn About the Meat Group
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Students identify foods in the Meat Group and learn that these foods build strong, healthy muscles.
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Name at least three foods that belong to the Meat Group
State how foods in the Meat Group keep them healthy
State the function of strong muscles and the relationship between exercise and strong muscles
Classify Meat Group Food Cards according to personal criteria
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Make Friends with the Fruit Group
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In this lesson students learn which foods are in the Fruit Group and learn that these foods help their bodies heal cuts and bruises. They identify fruits they like to eat. Name at least three foods in the Fruit Group
State how Fruit Group foods help keep them healthy
Students name different types of plants on which fruits grow
Classify fruits according to personal criteria
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Make Tasting Passports
Making a Sandwich
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This lesson is designed to help Special Needs students in self-contained classroom learn the basic life skills of making a sandwich. Self-care, self-direction, and home skills will be enforced in the lesson.
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Meet the Milk Group
Money Management: Grocery Shopping for a Family Profile
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Students work in groups to create menus and shopping lists based on the financial and dietary restrictions of a profiled family.Students will plan a menu based on a family profile; that profile includes details about the family's financial and, in some cases, dietary restrictions.
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Nutrients by the Numbers: Using Math to Explore Nutrition
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In this lesson, students strengthen their percentage and fraction skills in comparing the nutritional values of similar food products. They then individually calculate their daily intake of various nutrients and compare their diets to recommended daily percentages.
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Nutrients in Our Foods
Nutrition 2: Good Food, Good Health
Packaging Tricks
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This lesson introduces students to the ways in which packaging is designed to attract kids. Students compare similar food products based on packaging and on taste; assess the nutritional value of the foods and beverages they enjoy; and participate in a field trip to a local grocery store to see how packaging and placement affect consumer choices.
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Popcorn Nutrition
Selling Obesity
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In this lesson, students look at the health issues that are associated with our fast food culture, and the advertising of it. Students begin with a snack-food survey to assess their own eating habits. Through class discussion, they explore North American fast food culture, and the role that marketers play in promoting these types of foods to children and teens. At the end of the class, students choose from a number of activities that help them understand this issue in greater depth.
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Sugar-Coating the Facts: Examining the Food Industry's Influence on Nutritional Habits and Analyzing Nutrition Charts
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In this lesson, students explore the food industry's influence on American children's nutritional habits and analyze the nutrition charts found on food packaging. They then synthesize their knowledge by designing "warning labels" to be placed on products that are targeted to children to better represent the contents' nutritional value.
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Visit the Vegetable Group
We're Going Bananas!
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The students will view commercials, print advertisements, and nutritional labels to make inferences and draw conclusions about how media affects our food choices and eating behaviors. Students will create their own advertisements and jingles for healthy foods.
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You Are What You Eat: Evaluating the Nutritional Components of One’s Diet
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In this lesson, students evaluate their eating habits, focusing on the ways in which one assesses whether or not his or her diet is nutritious. Students work in small groups to design a menu for a healthy lunch and write a paragraph justifying their choices. For homework, students maintain a food diary over the course of a week and write a reflective essay discussing their food intake and proposing ways to make their diet healthier.
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