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Feast or Famine.....The TRUTH About Nutrition!
Track #
54594
Annotations by:
Teresa Riggin
Track Category
Grade(s):
Middle (5-9)
Subjects(s):
Science
Health/PE
Last Modified:
Aug 15, 2003
Format:
Resource list
Track Description
Eat a balanced diet and become knowledgeable about proper nutrition. These 6th grade students will navigate through on-line activities to make healthier choices, enabling them to focus on lifetime wellness. Since students were unaware of basic nutritional knowledge and the main nutrients from everyday food consumption when discussing food nutrition through questions of the day, this unit was chosen to improve test scores and enhance student understanding of proper nutrition. The content standard addressed concerns in student understanding of the relationship of sound nutrition to total lifetime wellness. It is hoped that this unit will narrow the gap between 'street knowledge' of a balanced diet and actual scientific studies of proper nutrition. The students in this 6th grade class need more opportunity to use technology in their learning as witnessed in the survey and it is my intention to allow them a diverse method of instruction. The students will understand how the food pyramid can help to plan healthy meals, apply learned knowledge in a technological environment while recognizing good nutrition habits, apply, compare and contrast knowledge from the concrete to abstract.