Nutrition Lesson Plan

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March 19, 2007

March is National Nutrition Month!
Parents often have a difficult time avoiding the golden arches. But there's no reason to give up fast-food eating completely or feel guilty about grabbing an on-the-run fast-food meal or snack. Luckily, most fast-food places now give you healthy choices. Here are some simple ways to make healthy fast-food choices:
http://www.helium.com/tm/219241/parents-often-difficult-avoiding

Journal
Use this worksheet to make your own healthy recipe
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/science/food/writing2/
Language arts

Alphabetical order. Arrange the following list in alphabetical order.
raspberry grapefruit peach raisin

kiwifruit blueberry apricot mango


apple orange cherry banana


Build your own food pyramid: http://www.healthychoices.org/pdf/ch4-pg13.pdf
Find the healthy snacks and make your way out of this maze: http://www.healthychoices.org/pdf/ch4-pg14.pdf
Kitchen Safety : http://www.healthychoices.org/pdf/ch4-pg16.pdf

Science
Find the science in ice-cream with this tasty experiment!
http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/findsci.html


More hands-on science.
Drinking is not the only source of water. People take in water in many foods they eat. How much water is in some foods? Test different foods such as a small slice of apple, banana, potato, and celery. First weigh each slice and to record that weight on a chart. Leave the food slices under a lamp overnight; the light source should be about 1-1/2 feet above the food. The next day, weigh your foods again. Did the foods gain or lose weight? Why? (They lost weight because they lost water.) Which food lost the most weight, or water? The least? (Probably the apple lost the most and the banana the least.)

Math
Popcorn math (K-1 grade)
http://www.popcorn.org/images/pdf/pi5.pdf

Popcorn math (2-3 grade)
http://www.popcorn.org/images/pdf/pi2.pdf


Don’t Forget the Math Challenge! http://homeschoolingk.blogspot.com/2007/03/math-challenge-march-19.html


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