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Topic:
Nutrition
Grade
Level: Third
District
Health Standard: Develop a healthy personal food plan using the
Food Pyramid
Lesson
Summary: The learner will be able to identify the sections of the food pyramid and
make a balanced meal.
Textbook
Connections: Health,
McGraw-Hill, Chapter 5, “Nutrition,” pages 101-128.
McGraw-Hill
Web-Linked Activities
Materials:
Model foods, Picture cards,
Food Guide Pyramid, battery-operated
toy car, (model/poster), student
textbooks, various restaurant menus,
school lunch menu
Technology:
KidPix, Paint,
Computer with Internet connectivity, Printer
Instructional
Input:
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Using a
battery-powered object, ask students what powers the device.
Teacher leads discussion on what makes the object work and then
compares it to the human body and its need for food as a source of power.
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Introduce
vocabulary and discuss meaning: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fiber,
vitamins, nutrients, and energy.
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Show students
the food guide pyramid poster, (McGraw Hill Health, p. 110) or go to (http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/Fpyr/pyramid.gif)
Name each section of the pyramid, describe
the kinds of foods that appear in each, and tell the serving amounts
for each food section.
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Examine several
meals from lunch menus. Check to see if the meal is
balanced. Check fast food menus. Check for balance. Make a sample
meal with the class, using pictures or a drawing. Check
to see if the meal is balanced, and discuss the results.
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Have students
complete the Web Quest. The
students will, among other things, draw a balanced meal. (To
facilitate the use of the computers for the WebQuest, provide learning
centers for the students.
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Centers: Computers
where they complete the WebQuest and the front of the worksheet.
Designing a Balanced Meal where they draw, label, and write about
the balanced meal that they have created. Building Pyramids
where the make a food pyramid from construction paper and magazine
pictures. Dictionary where they write the word,
illustrate it, and write a short definition. (Use 1/4 sheets of
paper. Do as many as time provides. Alphabetize
them. Make a cover page. Staple together).
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Have each
student share the meal
they created with the class.
WebQuest: Planning a Balanced Meal Using the
Food Pyramid
Click here
to view and print out the
worksheet
that students need to complete the WebQuest.
Websites:
BreakFast
and Jump to It
http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/activities/breakfast.htm
Food
Pyramid
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/Fpyr/pyramid.gif
Food
Pyramid Game
http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/activities/pyra_main.htm
Pyramids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/
Reading
Text Connections:
Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
(Scott Foresman Reading, 3rd grade, Vol. 1)
Connected
Stories or Books:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judy
Barrett
Gregory, the Terrible Eater, Mitchell Sharmat
The Milk
Makers, Gail Gibbons
Pancakes, Pancakes!, Eric Carle
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Jon Sciezka
Stone Soup, Marcia Brown
Authors:
Anita Duncan, Susie Kaufman, Michelle
Wilkes, Steve Thornton
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