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Dietary Fiber Lab
Pupils bake a variety of cakes experimenting with the amount of fat and fiber in each. They sample the cakes and compare the effects of differing ratios.
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Carbohydrates
Students listen to a lecture on carbohydrates focusing on the differences between complex and simple carbohydrates. They complete a demonstration and worksheet.
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Eating a Low-fat Nutritious Lunch
Students describe healthy and delicious lunch foods to replace junk foods. They make and eat lunch foods.
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Recommended Daily Food Intake Vs. Actual Intake
Students see how their daily food intake compares to the recommended daily intake. They will use computer skills, math skills, and develop or reinforce nutritional facts about eating healthy. After compiling their data, students discuss...
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Testing for Vitamin C in different drinks and foods
Students develop an awareness of the use of Vitamin C in helping our environment and gain exposure to chemical procedures and techniques. Students analyze and interpret data by keeping a data sheet and making a bar graph.
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What Can We Do To Help End Hunger?
Pupils identify the responsibility and ability of individuals to act to fight hunger and malnutrition and ensure food security. They identify specific actions we can take to help end hunger.
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Stats on Reduced-Fat
Students demonstrate an understanding of the Five-Number Summary and Box-Plots after analyzing data from nutrition labels, forming a hypothesis and supporting it. They decide if there is a significant difference between reduced fat and...
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Visual Representation of Reduced Fat
Students demonstrate their understanding of the Five-Number Summary and Box-Plots by analyzing different nutrition labels from regular and reduced fat items using graphing calculators.
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Dysfunctional Eating
Sixth graders write a 1.5 page paper explaining how to make their favorite nutritional snack. They need to assume that the audience has never seen or heard of the snack before.
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Chefs of the Week
Students, as members of a team, are asked to prepare one meal to feed one person in a day. They analyze their meal and their daily menu for the nutritional content and explain this during an oral presentation.
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Happy, Healthy Me
Students become taste testers and experience an alphabet of nutritious snacks. They also discover more about their muscles and bones and the importance of exercise.
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Internet Nutrition
Students use different Internet websites to help get an idea of daily calorie intake and fat grams intake from a normal fast food meal.
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Nutrition Fitness
Middle schoolers review the number of servings of each section of the food pyramid appropriate to eat per day.They work in small groups to place food in the correct locations on the food pyramid. They complete the process to music.
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Ancient and Modern Diets
Students investigate the ancient Egyptian diet and compare it to the contemporary American diet.