Teacher Name: Kim Provencher
Grade taught; Kindergarten
School name: John Fuller School Pine St. No. Connway
School telephone number 356-5381
Teacher e-mail: proven@landmarknet.net
Subject matter: Nutrition, Food Preparation, and Distribution
Externship: Memorial Hospital, Nutrition Dept.
Key questions to be explored:
Students will understand the importance of a healthy diet and they will be more conscious of their diet.
Students will understand the major food groups.
Students will understand the process of food distribution in their community.
Students will understand the process of food preparation in a restaurant.
Activities
1. Children can cut up pictures of food from magazines or store coupons and paste them on a paper plate. The pictures will be of food that would make a balanced meal for breakfast, lunch, or supper.
2. Students can make a fresh fruit salad. Ask parents to send fruit in to the class. Children can cut up the fruit with special knives (pumpkin carving knives). Mix together with yogurt and granola. Children learn that a healthy snack also tastes good.
3. The students can also dehydrate the cut up fruit using a dehydrator.
4. On a bulletin board have a list of all the children in the class and keep a tally of kids that brings in a healthy snack.
5. On a large triangular piece of pa.per. divide up the triangle to look like the food pyramid. Label the areas -- bread group, milk group etc. Students will cut up pictures of food from magazines or coupons and glue them in the appropriate places. Arrange the triangles with blank triangles to make one large triangle on a bulletin board with the title Eat the Pyramid Way.
6. Students can make juice using a juicer. For a math activity they can estimate how much juice they made.
7. Visit a local restaurant to see how they provide food for a large number of people. At Pizza Hut they allow the children to make their own pizza.
8. Visit a grocery store so that the students will see what is involved in distributing food to everyone in our community. Upon returning fram this field trip set up you own grocery store in your classroom. Cup up a large refrigerator box to have Only three sides with no top or bottom. In one side cut an area for the "cashier". Set up a bookcase with actual groceries. Students will price the groceries and they can play store by adding up the groceries they buy.
9. Dietician or nurse can come into the classroom and talk to the children about nutrition.
10. Students can make a favorite healthy 'meal" book. They can draw, pictures of their favorite meal and write a description of it.
11. Given a selection of healthy and non-healthy food, the children will select a certain number of healthy and non-healthy foods upon direction of the teacher. The student will then add up the total number of foods they have.
How will this lesson be reviewed and evaluated?
1. Students will identify the four major food groups and be able to place a food item in its respective food group.
2. Students will identify food that is healthy and not healthy for them. They will also know why it is healthy or not healthy for them.
3. Students will understand the concept of a balanced meal.
4. Students will identify the origin of food-i.e. milk comes from a cow not from a grocery store.
5. Students will realize the necessity of a healthy diet.
6. Students will understand the role of the grocery store in our community.
7. Students will understand what is involved in food preparation in a restaurant.