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Anne Frank: Nutrition -- Anne Frank and Me
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Utilizing Anne Frank's Diary students predict some of the possible health consequences of this situation. The focus of the lesson becomes the conditions and diseases related to nutrition or food deficiencies.
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Counting Calories
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In this lesson, students will evaluate and discuss the health benefits of breakfast foods. They work in pairs to help create and solve word problems using cereal nutrition data. For homework, students are expected to solve additional problems formulated in class and write short essays commenting on what they have learned.
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Counting Calories: Creating Word Problems about Cereal Nutrition
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In this lesson, students will evaluate and discuss the health benefits of breakfast foods. They work in pairs to help create and solve word problems using cereal nutrition data. For homework, students are expected to solve additional problems formulated in class and write short essays commenting on what they have learned.
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Eat Plenty of Fruits Vegetables and Grains
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Students will be able to realize the large variety of fruit, vegetable, and grain foods from which to choose.
Students will be able to identify the number of recommended servings for the Fruit, Vegetable, and Grain Groups.
Students will understand how to increase their own consumption of fruits, vegetables, and grains.
Students will become familiar with and attempt to reach the 5 A Day goal of consuming at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
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Eat Your Veggies
Finicky Feasts: Examining the Nutritional Needs of Zoo Animals and Creating Sample Diets for These Animals
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In this lesson, students learn how zoo nutritionists determine various animals' diets. They then research the specific nutritional needs of a zoo animal, design a sample diet for that animal, and compare the nutritional content of the animal's diet to their own.
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Five a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
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The students will be able to understand which foods are healthy and identify the parts of the Food Guide Pyramid. Conclude that foods provide nutrients, which maintain and promote health.
Identify the serving sizes and number of daily servings needed from each food group of the Food Guide Pyramid
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Food for Thought: Investigating Nutritional Components of Food in the Science or Health Classroom
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In this lesson, students explore various nutritional components found in foods to analyze their sources, effects on the human body, and relationship to a healthy diet. Each student researches a different nutritional component and then creates an informative poster incorporating the research.
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Healthy Eating
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The purpose of this lesson is to have the students gain an understanding of good nutrition. The student will learn the five basic food groups and what each one consists of. The student will develop an understanding of why eating healthy is important. The students have background knowledge in healthy eating due to the exposure in previous health lessons.
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My Body Helps Me Get Food
Nature's Superheroes: Bringing to Light New Research on Vitamins and the Human Body
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
Nutritious Foods Keep Me Healthy
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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Using an Egg Hunt to Teach about Nutrition
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Unhealthy foods are frequently advertised to children. Parents and teachers desire to encourage children to choose healthy alternatives to snack foods containing high sugar and fat content. Students in early elementary grades can learn about nutrition through story-telling, songs, and a familiar hunting game.
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Where's the Beef? Investigating the Benefits and Challenges of a Vegetarian Diet for Young People
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In this lesson, students create and conduct a community survey to evaluate the demographics of vegetarians in their community. Students compile data, create graphs, calculate percentages, and draw conclusions about their survey data. Students create an informational awareness pamphlet for other young people about the benefits and challenges of a vegetarian diet.
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Winning Combinations
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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