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Adventures in Advertising
Dr. Algae talks about the way advertising affects our buying choices, especially foods and beverages. Dr. Algae provides some examples to illustrate how some advertising promotions use special techniques to make products look attractive.
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How Much Should I Eat
Dr. Algae talks about the correct proportions of food groups your student should be eating at each meal. He gives an overview of the calorie requirements for a growing body, and how to ensure that your student is getting the proper...
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Energy In, Energy Out
Food Detective Berry Blue explains the concept of balancing the energy we take in with the energy we burn. She describes the way food produces energy through calories.
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Helping to Make Healthy Choices
Food Detective Berry Blue encourages the student to become a food detective and to find as much information as possible about making healthy food choices. She then offers several sources of finding information about healthy foods.
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How Do You Choose What to Eat?
Food Detective Berry Blue explains how advertising influences our decision to buy and consume foods. She also notes that our friends often influence our food decisions.
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Healthy Snacking
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains how to choose healthy snacks and describes some healthy habits to remember when it’s snack time. Food Detective Berry Blue and the student then play a healthy snack food game called, “This or That.”
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Why Do We Need to Eat?
Food Detective Berry Blue talks about how our bodies convert food into energy and why it’s important to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet to produce all the energy that our bodies need.
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What Did You Eat Today?
Miss Palomine introduces the Student to Food Detective Berry Blue. The detective talks about one of her recent cases, the case of the forgotten fruits and vegetables. The detective then encourages your student to conduct his own...
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Italian Sub on a Stick
Coach Socrates shows Miss Palomine how to make a healthy and delicious Italian Sub on a Stick.
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Fruits Group
"Fruits Group" introduces the five fabulous food groups and focuses on the fruits group, discussing nutritional value, examples of healthful fruits, and recipes using fruit.
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Muscle-Building Meats
Dr. Algae talks about the importance of choosing healthy foods to eat. He revisits The Fabulous Five Food Groups and focuses this lesson on the meat group.
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Start Your Day the Right Way
Food Detective Berry Blue answers the question, “Why is breakfast the most important meal of the day?” She then gives examples of a variety of healthy breakfasts.
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Making Healthy Choices Away From Home
Food Detective Berry Blue talks about eating meals away from home. She discusses the best strategy to use to make healthy food choices when you don’t have food labels available to help you make those decisions.
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What’s in Our Food?
Food Detective Berry Blue compares two breakfast cereals by comparing their labels. The Food Detective explains which are healthy ingredients and which are not. She then asks the student to choose the healthier breakfast cereal.
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Meat Makes Muscles
Food Detective Berry Blue completes her discussion of the Fabulous Five Food Groups by talking about the meat group. She describes the benefits we receive from protein, but cautions us to eat smaller portions of meat to avoid fat intake....
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The Great Grain Group
Food Detective Berry Blue focuses on the grains group of the Fabulous Five Food Groups. She gives examples of foods made from grains. She describes the lifecycle of a wheat plant. Finally, she explains the nutritional value of grains in...
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Vitamin-Filled Vegetables
Food Detective Berry Blue talks about why vegetables are such an important part of the Fabulous Five Food Groups. She explains the way vegetables grow and how they can be purchased fresh, canned, or frozen. She raves about the...
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Let’s Review Our Healthy Choices
The Food Detective Berry Blue reviews the information your student has learned about eating a healthy diet. Food Detective Berry Blue recaps what we’ve learned by providing answers to the important questions of why, what, how, when, and...
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I Want That
The Food Detective Berry Blue shows some of the methods advertisers use to trick us into buying merchandise. She then explains how you can make sure that, when it comes to buying food, you’re buying the healthy, nutritious food that you...
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Make Dinner a Winner
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains how to use the Fabulous Five Food Groups to make your dinner a winner. She and the student will play a healthy dinner food game called, “What’s Missing?”
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Let’s Learn About Lunch
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains why lunch is an important mid-day meal, and then encourages your student to play a healthy lunch food game called, “What Will You Choose?”
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Let’s Talk About Breakfast
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains why breakfast is such an important meal, and then plays a healthy breakfast game called, “What Will You Choose?”
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The Marvelous Milk Group
The Food Detective Berry Blue talks about the milk group. She explains that in addition to providing protein, milk is one of the best sources of calcium.
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Meat or No Meat
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains why protein is such an important component of our diet and then plays a “find the protein game,” called “Meat or No Meat.”