Native America: Understanding the Past through Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.04.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Observations
  3. Things
  4. What things can tell us
  5. What people eat and how we know
  6. What do we eat
  7. Good nutrition and good food
  8. Where do we go from here
  9. Resources
  10. Bibliography
  11. Appendix
  12. Notes

Things, Foods, and How We Know

Jennifer B. Esty

Published September 2006

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What do we eat

This section of the unit explores frightening topic of the modern American teenager's diet. In this section, the students will be asked to keep a detailed record of the foods that they eat for a week. Every day when the students come in to class, they will update their collection of food sheets. The students will use the same food sheets to record their food intake that they used to record the information from their study of the indigenous cultures. The USDA National Nutrient Database contains nutritional information on many modern packaged foods as well as information on whole foods, so the students should not have too much trouble finding the nutritional information on their own diets.

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