Release week Dec. 10, 2006:  Eating Right

Standards

• Health: Students will identify food references in the newspaper.
• Health: Students will examine their own diets and plan healthy changes.
• Health: Students will share a healthy potluck lunch.

Activities

• Use the News:  How many references to food can you find in the newspaper?  Read reports and articles first, and then look at the advertisements.  Can you tell whether they deal with healthy food choices?  Are the majority of advertisements about food or nonedible products? 

• List a typical day’s menu for yourself.  What do you usually eat at breakfast, lunch and dinner?  Also include any between-meal snacks.  Next, research and record the nutritional information about your average day’s food intake.  How many calories do you consume?  How much fat?  Do you eat a variety of foods?  Which food group do you consume the most of?  Finally, make a plan for how you can make healthy changes to your diet.  Are there any obvious changes you need to make?  What might be the most difficult change to make? 

• Have an “Eating Right” potluck lunch day.  Bring a healthy food to school to eat and share with your classmates.  You may want to divide the class into food groups.  Calculate the calories and fat, and then compare them to your usual lunch diet.

World of Wonder meets many state educational standards.  This guide helps teachers identify standards and related activities generally intended for grade 6, but teachers can modify activities to the appropriate grade level.