Transcript Food Fits Everywhere- Successful Ingredient Substitutions

Making the Connections
Linking Nutrition Education
with
Academic Standards
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Main Objectives
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Discuss benefits of using food and
nutrition as a teaching strategy
Brainstorm ideas for supporting
core curricula through nutrition
education
Review resources available for
incorporating nutrition concepts
and skills
The pressure is on!!!
I’m too busy to teach
nutrition!
Language
Arts
Math
Health
& P.E.
Nutrition
Visual &
Performing
Arts
Science
Social
Science
Building a support
network…
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How can child nutrition staff
support a lesson or thematic unit
in the cafeteria?
How might a teacher work with
child nutrition staff to support a
lesson or thematic unit?
The benefits of
teaching nutrition
for...
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Students
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Teachers
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Families
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Communities
Process of
Instructional Planning
Standards Based
Student-Centered
Learning Oriented
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Select standards
Design assessment
Determine learning opportunities
Plan instructional opportunities
Use data from assessment for
feedback
Nutrition
Competencies for
California’s
Children
Nutrition
Competencies for
California’s Children
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10 competencies
Pre-kindergarten through grade 12
Learning activities
Assessment tools
Curriculum links
Nutrition
Competencies for
California’s
Children
Learning Activity (Grades 1 - 3)
Before lunch, guide students in
sorting foods on the school lunch
menu for the day into the Food
Guide Pyramid groups.
Nutrition
Competencies for
California’s
Children
Assessment Tool (Grades 1 - 3)
After lunch, students tally the
number of Food Guide Pyramid
groups represented by the foods
they actually ate for lunch and
compare with Food Guide
Pyramid recommendations.
Nutrition
Competencies for
California’s
Children
Curriculum Links
 LA = California English-Language Arts Content Standards
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Math = Mathematics Content Standards
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CS = Challenge Standards for Student Success/Health Education
Nutrition
Competencies for
California’s
Children
Form groups.
Assign competency to each group.
Review competency, learning activities, assessment
tools, and curriculum links.
Discuss and select one activity to share with entire
group.
Provide overview of competency; share one activity;
identify curriculum links.
Brain-based
Learning
What drives
learning and
memory?
emotional system
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attention system
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learning
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memory
Seven Intelligences
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Verbal/Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Musical/Rhythmic
Visual/Spatial
Body/Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
For additional information: Howard Gardner, Multiple
Intelligences: The Theory in Practice (New York: Basic
Books, 1993)
Memorable
learning
experiences...
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“Hands on” experience
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Personally relevant or interesting
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Simulated a real-life experience -“being there” experience
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Tapped into emotions
Connecting
Nutrition to...
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Language Arts
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Math
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History/Social Science
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Science
The Tortilla
Factory
written by
Gary Paulsen
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Grades K - 2
Learn process for making homemade
corn tortillas; practice listening,
speaking, and sequencing skills.
 Language Arts Content Standards
(Listening & Speaking 1.1 - 1.4, 2.2)
 Nutrition Competencies 1 and 5
Kids…Get Cookin’!
Developed by
Elk Grove Unified School District
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Grades 4 - 5
Practice reading informational text
Based on question stems from “The
Language of Instruction” (reading
comprehension and vocabulary)
 Nutrition Competencies 1 and 2
Everybody Cooks Rice
Literacy Unit
Developed by
Healthy Kids Resource Center
www.californiahealthykids.org
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Grades 5-6
Practice language arts and math skills
while learning about rice and nutrition
 Language Arts Content Standards:
Reading (1.0)
 Nutrition Competencies 1 and 2
Nutrient Rate A Recipe
Activity
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Establish groups of four.
Each group member:
selects one of the four ingredients
displayed at the table; and
 graphs the amount of each
nutrient (Vitamin A, Vitamin C,
Iron, Calcium) found in their food
item on the group graph.
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Language Arts
Primary Grades
Healthy Choices, Healthy Me!
Dairy Council of California
Upper Elementary Grades
Potato Patch
Creation Station! CD-ROM
Dairy Council of California
Pyramid Power
Food Time: An Integrated
Approach to Teaching Nutrition
Developed by
USDA Team Nutrition &
Scholastic Inc.
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Grades 1 - 2
Sort and count
 Math Content Standards: Statistics,
Data Analysis, & Probability (1.1)
 Nutrition Competency 1
Finding Fat on Food Labels
Changing the Course
Developed by
American Cancer Society
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Grades 4 - 5
Students are introduced to the Nutrition
Facts label with specific attention to
grams of fat
 Math Content Standards for Statistics,
Data Analysis, & Probability (1.0 - 1.2)
and for Reasoning (2.3, 3.3)
 Nutrition Competencies 1, 2, and 3
Finding Fat
on
Food Labels
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Establish groups of four or five.
Each group member selects a dairy
food model from the items
provided.
Complete steps 5 and 6 of lesson
plan provided.
Making the
Connections
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Science
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History/Social Studies
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Physical Education
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Visual & Performing Arts
Strategies for
Success II
Enhancing Academic
Performance and Health
Through Nutrition
Education
Resource Manual for Educators and
Child Nutrition Programs
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Nutrition
Education:
Success for
Everyone!