Unit Project

Link to our video: NEW School Nutrition Video


Our lesson plan:

Lesson Plan:

Name: “ What is ‘healthy’?”  Makenzie hernandez, Paige Dieckmann, Audrey DeVenuto, Alyssiana Hugel

Date presenting:11/4/16

Grade Level: 6th & 7th

Length: approx 45 minutes

Leave from high school at 10:15

Leave from middle school at 1:30

Topic: Nutrition and the importance of good eating habits

I. Objective:

To teach students about the importance of healthy food and snacks and to try to steer them away from their usual sugary and non-nutritional foods

Purpose:

To teach students about the importance of healthy food and snacks and to try to steer them away from their usual sugary and non-nutritional foods

Materials:

• Dixie cups

• Blender
• Large bowl
• One bag of crushed Ice
• 1 large Banana
• A pack of strawberries
• 1 Avocado
• Dino kale
• A pack of blueberries
• 32 oz of all natural  greek yogurt
• A mixing tool
• Ice chest
• Z bar
• Quest bar
• Empty starbucks cup
• 12 oz coca cola
• Milk chocolate kisses
• A bag of mini carrots
• Two small bowls
• Whole grain gluten free bread
• Unsalted organic almond butter

List teacher references

Mr. Shebest

Mr. Sullivan

III. Procedure

1. Lay out a bowl of milk chocolate kisses and another next to it with carrots and see which one kids go to ( take about 5 minutes)
2. Show the flipped classroom video to explain why the kids went to the sugary option and then explain why the carrots are the healthier option and why children and even adults should start choosing the healthier options more (takes about 15 minutes)
3. Show the kids the needed amount of sugar and then show them the amount they consumed per day in 2008 and explain to them how it’s 2016 now, 8 years later ( takes about 5 minutes)
4. Show the physical representation of the starbucks cup, soda, luna bar and Z bar ( takes about 5 minutes)
5. Explain the benefits of this quick and easy snack vs what they would normally eat ( takes about three minutes)
6. Now prepare a smoothie, with ½ a cup of strawberries, ¼ cup of blueberries, 4 leaves of dino kale, ½ avocado, 1 large banana, ¼ cup of greek yogurt, and ¼- ½ of soy milk depending on the thickness (takes about 10 minutes), 1 handful of ice.
7. Give a dixie cup sample of the smoothie to each kid (takes about 3 minutes)

     10.)Explain the benefit of this healthy and yummy snack ( takes about three minute)

     11.)Final step is to hand out the recipes

A. Anticipatory Set:

You need to water plants for them to live. If you water a plant with sewage water, it will die. Just like if you eat junk food now until adulthood, your organs will fail.

B. Body of the Lesson/Input:

The body of the lesson is our flipped classroom video and a lab.

C. Closure:

We will have a paper printed out for them full of questions to answer about the lesson to see what they retained from it and a short evaluation on how they think we taught the lesson this way we could get some feedback on our project. We will save a slot of time at the end for any questions or clarifications they need.

D. Follow-up activity: Independent Practice, Enrichment or Reinforcement:

We will be handing out a piece of paper with pretty broad questions on it such as, “What did you learn today?” and “Will you be changing your eating habits and/or pay more attention to them after this lesson?”


To wrap up the nutrition unit, we were assigned a unit project and my group went over to the Middle School to teach 6th and 7th graders about nutrition. We discussed the importance of eating habits as an adolescent and gave them tasty snacks to try after our presentation and video.

First, we asked the kids to come up and choose either a carrot or a chocolate; whatever they felt like eating in the moment. Once we tallied up the results, we asked the kids why they think the majority of kids chose chocolate over carrots. Their responses were all similar, "Because chocolate tastes better and is sweet!" We took these observations and presented them with a video explaining the importance of good eating habits.

After the video finished, we explained the main take-away's and asked the kids questions like, "Before this video what did you consider healthy?"

Overall, the majority of the kids' perceptions of what to eat had been altered in a positive manner.

Then, we made the kids a healthy smoothie and explained the process to them so they can make it at home.

We asked what they thought of the smoothie and the majority of the kids really enjoyed it. As you can see in the picture above, this girl loved it!

Overall, this project was an amazing experience and I loved working with these kids and teaching them about nutrition.