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Topic: Nutrition

Grade Level:   Fourth

District Health Standard: Explain the role of nutrients (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, vitamins, and minerals) and fiber in a healthful diet.

Lesson Summary: This nutrition lesson helps the students understand why proper nutrition is important to their health.  It is an interactive story designed to specifically use the vocabulary words, which will teach students the vocabulary, while they are learning how nutrients play a vital role in a healthful diet.

Textbook Connections: McGraw-Hill Health, Chapter 5, Pages 103-130
McGraw-Hill Web-Linked Activities

Materials: Instructional Story: Nutrition Lesson

Technology: Computer with Internet connection.

Instructional Input: 

1. Go to the WebQuest below.
2. Have students read through Instructional Story and click on vocabulary words to learn more.

3. Be sure to have students click on the quizzes along the way.  

4. Note:  This is an alternate way for the students to learn about nutrition.  There are quizzes and games along the way to help the teacher assess students’ knowledge.  If the teacher has access to the McGraw Hill Health book listed above, the Chapter 5 test may also be used to assess students, as the instructional story is directly related to this chapter.

WebQuest:
Click here to learn more about food safety and nutrition!

Websites:

http://www.cspinet.org/kids/10b&w.htm

http://www.dole5aday.com/

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/educate.html#kids (food safety)

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/html/wash__hands.htm

http://www.health.org/gpower/girlarea/Bodywise/index.htm

http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/On-line.Educational.Activities/Menu/index.html

http://www.healthyfridge.org/

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/index.html

http://www.schoolmenu.com/

http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/wwwac/eatsmart/contents.htm

http://www.fi.edu/biosci/healthy/pyramid.html

http://www.vh.org/Patients/IHB/Dietary/PyramidPower/FoodPyramid.jpg

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0100.html

http://www.nppc.org/cgi-bin/pyramid/

http://www.etc.colstate.edu/sowega.html

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/default.htm

Reading Text Connections: 

Connected Stories or Books:
The Bernenstein Bears and Too Much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstein  
The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons
How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman
Why the Sky is Far Away by Mary-Joan Gerson
Fruit by Gallimar Jeunesse and Pascale de Bourgoing
How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal Kaur Khalsa by Clarkson N. Potter
Riddle Soup by Valiska Gregory
Garden Partners by Diane Palmisciano
Morning Milking by Linda Lowe Morris
The Vegetable Thieves by Inga Moore
When the Rooster Crowed by Patrician Lillie
Heartland by Diane Siebert
What Happens to a Hamburger by Paul Showers
If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Joseph and Nellie by Bijou Le Tord
The Strength of the Hills: A Portrait of a Family Farm by Nancy Price Graff
Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne Disalso-Ryan
My First Cookbook by Fena Coyle
Peanut Butter, Apple Butter, Cinnamon Toast: Food Riddles for You to Guess by Argentina Palacios
The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day by Loreen Leedy
Today is Monday by Eric Carle

Authors: Robin Surland,  Lauri Cash, Brenda Vague