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=Nutrition in the classroom=

Pre-Field Trip Activity

 * 1) Write and Draw what you love to eat at lunch.
 * 2) What are your favorite foods?
 * 3) What do you like to drink?
 * 4) Give an example of a "healthy" food
 * 5) Give an example of an "unhealthy" food
 * 6) As a class create a survey of potential questions to ask the other students about their lunches.
 * 7) Analyze students responses about "healthy" and "unhealthy" foods.
 * 8) Discuss with the class what foods are "healthy" and what foods are "unhealthy" and why.[[image:vegies-about-1.gif]]

Activities during the field trip.

 * Have the students draw and write the foods that they see in the lunchroom. Have the students label the foods and if they don't know what the food is label their drawing with a question mark next to the food.
 * Use the survey to find out the preferable food choices of the students in the lunchroom.

Post field trip activities.

 * Put students in groups of 3 or 4.
 * Have each group come up with an "ideal" lunch full of nutritional foods to make up a "healthy" meal.
 * Make a comparison chart of what foods were served in the lunchroom to the ideal healthy meal groups made up

**Reading.**

 * Read the book __Yummy Rhymes__ by Jon Goodell
 * After reading the book have the children create their own yummy rhyme with the nutritional foods they enjoy.

**Math**

 * Provide the students with a sample nutrition label with the calories circled.
 * Discuss why nutrition labels are important for healthy lunches.
 * Model a calculation of calories in their lunch for that day.
 * For homework have the students calculate the calories they ate for dinner that night.

**Social Studies**

 * "Diets around the World"
 * Put the students into groups of 4
 * Give each group a different country: Mexico, Italy, China, America, Ireland
 * Have the groups draw a picture of the foods that come to mind when they think of their given country
 * Each group will present to the rest of the class.

**Art and Music**

 * [|Teach the class the "lets go shopping song"]]