Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.06.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Background Information
  4. Objectives
  5. Strategies
  6. Sample Activities
  7. Resources
  8. Appendix: Implementing State and District Standards
  9. Appendix: Nutrition and Exercise Survey
  10. Appendix: Multiple Intelligences Survey
  11. Appendix: Nutrition Multiple Intelligences Contract
  12. Appendix: Exercise Log
  13. Appendix: Food Log
  14. Appendix: Nutrients Chant
  15. Appendix: Vocabulary List
  16. Appendix: Extension Activities
  17. Notes

Feeding our Bodies, Fueling our Minds

Christina Marie Pavlak

Published September 2008

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Appendix: Nutrition Multiple Intelligences Contract

  1. Linguistic:
  2. Write a letter from the point of view of a food item telling about their travels through the digestive system.
  3. Create a cookbook of at least 5 healthy recipes.
  4. ) Logical-Mathematical:
  5. Write and solve a series of math word problems having to do with our study of nutrition.
  6. Calculate what percentage of your daily intake of food for a selected day came from each food group and graph that data.
  7. Calculate what percentage of the school lunch for a day came from each food group and graph that data.
  8. I) Intrapersonal:
  9. Reflect on your own eating habits and set personal goals about ways to improve your health.
  10. Answer the following question, "If you could be a piece of food, what would you be and why?" You can write about it, draw about it, or express yourself in any other safe way. J
  11. ) Interpersonal:
  12. Interview family members about their food choices.
  13. Survey other sixth grade classes about their knowledge of a balanced diet.
  14. Spatial:
  15. Design and build a three-dimensional model of a food pyramid of your choosing (use one that was studied or create your own).
  16. Draw a cartoon showing what happens to food when it enters the body and how it is digested.
  17. ) Musical:
  18. Write a rap song about digestion.
  19. Create your own chant about nutrition.
  20. I) Bodily-Kinesthetic:
  21. Write and perform a public service announcement about kids making healthy food choices.
  22. Create and play a board game based on some aspect of our unit of study.
  23. II) Naturalist:
  24. Participate in the school garden project. Or, pretend you are a landscape architect hired to design a garden for your school and draw up your plans.
  25. Plant and care for a seedling of your choice.

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