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ARE YOU A TERRIBLE EATER?
(QuickPlan developed by Amy Miller, Casablanca, Morocco)
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OVERVIEW: After the children predict what the book Gregory, the Terrible Eater is about and the teacher reads it to the children, the children will describe what kinds of food are good for you, identifying healthy and unhealthy choices, and then constructing their own stomachs, including the healthy goods discussed.
BOOKLINK: Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat, Scholastic, 1980. ISBN 0-590-43350-4
SCIENCE ACTIVITY LINK: Using baggies, construction paper and magazine cutouts of food, students will construct their own stomachs, discussing what kinds of healthy foods should be included in the stomach.
OBJECTIVE: Students will use stomachs to describe and infer qualities of food that make them healthy or unhealthy.
SCIENCE PROCESSES AND CONTENT: Processes-Observing, predicting, inferring, gathering data and displaying data, and communicating. Content-Characteristics of healthy and unhealthy food and food pyramids.
NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS: Unifying Concepts and Processes, Life Science, and Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
MATERIALS: Book Gregory, the Terrible Eater, magazines with pictures of food, baggies, construction paper, paper plates (two for each child), string, hole punch, scissors, markers, and glue.
PROCEDURE:
1. Begin by displaying the cover of the book, Gregory, the Terrible Eater, asking the students to predict what the book is about. Discuss their ideas.
2. Now read the book and ask the children what healthy or unhealthy means. Then discuss what kinds of food might fall into each of those categories. Make a chart and write their ideas in the right categories.
3. Discuss and identify the food pyramid, explaining why each kind of food is important.
4. Distribute magazines, paper, and markers, asking students to find foods that are healthy and would fit into the food pyramid. Explain that they should include food from all parts of the food pyramid, but in the correct proportion you have discussed. Students will go through the pictures, choosing which to include, or drawing their own.
5. Students will cut out the pictures, and glue them on one side to the inside of the baggie. They will then cut out the center of the two paper plates to enclose the baggies, allowing the food in the baggies to be seen clearly.
6. Punch a hole in the top of each of the "stomachs", attach a string to them and then hang them in the classroom.
7. An interesting end to this lesson would be to read Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris, discussing how the types of food people eat differ from country to country, but how everyone still needs to eat similar amounts of each food.
RELATED BOOKS:
Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris , Mulberry Books, (William Morrow & Co.), 1989. ISBN 0-688-12275-2
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