Goals
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To create student awareness of the great importance of good nutrition in order to be healthy and productive in school and at work.
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To introduce the concept of grouping foods according to their classification.
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To enable students to categorize food according to the four groups and to familiarize them with the number of servings they need daily from each group.
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Materials
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Posters with colorful pictures of food
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A basket with real food from the four groups
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Film: “Our Foods and Where They Come From” (If available)
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Paper and pencil
Procedure
After a review of the previous lessons on nutrition the teacher will formulate different questions such as: What type of food do you prefer for lunch? Which types for breakfast? Which food is your favorite? Name three vegetables. Name three foods that are made from milk products. Later the teacher will give the students forms with four columns each one headed by the name of a food group:
The milk group
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The vegetable and fruit group
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The meat group
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The bread and cereal group
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Students will be asked to write in each column the names of the foods in the pictures and the foods from the basket.
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Students will be asked to classify food for breakfast for lunch and for dinner from the basket.
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Do you know which group each food belongs to? Draw a line from the food to the group it belongs to
Milk group
Meat group
Vegetable and fruit group
Bread and cereal group
(figure available in print form)
Name __________________________
Write the group name in each group of food.
bananas
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milk
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apples
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cheese
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raisins
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yogurt
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orange
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butter
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peach
chicken
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potatoes
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meat
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corn
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hamburger
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celery
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steak
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onions
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bread
corn flak
cake
3. Plan menus for two days using the food groups from the food charts. Each menu should include breakfast lunch and dinner.