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Overview: Primary students will work on choosing grocery items based on their knowledge of a healthy diet. This was used as part of an assessment activity at the end of the Healthy Eating theme that first grade students had been working on.
Booklink: Don't Forget the Bacon by Pat Hutchkinson, Reed Business Information, Inc., 1989 ISBN 080852691X
Science Activity Link: Students sort and classify pictures of food items from magazines according to their food group and then choose the ones they believe will make a healthy meal.
Objective: Students will classify magazine pictures of food into various food groups and describe the nutritional value of selected food items.
Science Processes and Content: Processes-classifying, communicating, cooperating, using prior knowledge, predicting, and inferring Content-food groups, creating a healthy diet, and identifying what foods our body needs and why.
National Science Education Standards: Unifying Concepts and Processes, (3) Life Science, (5) Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Materials: Paper, magazines, scissors, glue, pencils, crayons, photocopy picture of a shopping cart
Procedure:
1. Discuss with students what they have been studying in relation to the food charts/ pyramid. Go over basic vocabulary like vitamins, carbohydrates, fats, vegetables, fruit, proteins, fats, etc...
2. Review the idea of classification of food items, writing on the chalkboard some examples.
3. Discuss the idea of going shopping and what the students usually like to buy at the grocery store.
4. Read through the book Don't Forget the Bacon a few times. Have the students read it back to you. Have students classify the food items mentioned in the book. Ask the students what the boy could have done to help him remember all the food that his mother had asked him to buy.
5. Give students the magazines and have them sit at a table and cut out pictures of food they would like to buy. Working as a group look and discuss what they have chosen and why.
6. Ask students to choose food items from the different food groups and to organize them under the food group headings.
7. Have students then choose a few items from the different food groups to glue down on a photocopy of a picture of a shopping cart. Students should be told that these items need to be chosen to be part of a healthy meal.
8. Have students write down the names of their food items in the form of a menu or a shopping list for the boy in the story.
Safety: Help students use the scissors if necessary
Related Books:
Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, 1980. ISBN 0-02-782250-8 |
