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Primary Subject Area: Health Education |
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Grade Level: 7
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Overview:
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Healthful eating includes the beverages one drinks. A well-balanced diet includes a variety of different beverages. Smart beverage choices are water, milk, and 100% fruit juice. In this lesson, students compare the nutrient content of various beverages and determine how they fit into a healthful diet. This lesson can be used to teach health, nutrition, and food-related topics. |
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Approximate Duration: 2-3 class periods (50 minutes each) |
Content Standards:
- Standard 1
Students will comprehend concepts and strategies related to health
promotion and disease prevention.
- Standard 3
Students will demonstrate the ability to practice positive health
behaviors and reduce health risks.
- Standard 5
Students will demonstrate individual and interpersonal
communication skills necessary to enhance health.
- Standard 6
Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate personal, family,
and community health.
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Benchmarks:
- 1-M-2
evaluate healthy and unhealthy lifestyles ( e.g., preventive health measures,
physical fitness, nutrition, obesity, eating disorders, stress, etc.);
(1,2)- 3-M-1
identify personal health needs and develop long-term goals for a healthy
lifestyle;
(1,2,4)- 5-M-5
develop strategies and skills for attaining personal health goals. (1,2,3,4)- 6-M-1
develop strategies to encourage and influence others in making positive
health choices (e.g., healthy food choices, abstaining from alcohol, tobacco,
and illegal drug use, etc.);
(2,4)
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Interdisciplinary Connections:
- English/Language Arts : Standard 3
Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting.
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Educational Technology Standards:
- Compose and edit a multi-page document with appropriate formatting using word-processing skills. (e.g., menu, tool bars, dialog boxes, spell check, thesaurus, page layout, headers and footers, word count, margins, tabs, spacing, columns, page orientation)
( 1, 3, 6 )
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Objectives:
The student will:
- identify smart beverage choices as a part of a well-balanced diet;
- compare the difference between the various types of milk, juices, and water; and
- identify the caloric content of beverages and contribution to the diet.
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Lesson Materials and Resources:
Empty water, milk, soda, and juice cartons, boxes, pouches, cans and/or bottles |
Technology Tools and Materials:
Hardware:
Computer with Internet access
Software:
Word processing program such as MS Word
Concept mapping program such as Inspiration
Graphing program such as Graph Club
Websites:
•US Dietary Guidelines
www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/
•MyPyramid
www.mypyramid.gov
•Approved vending items in Louisiana
www.pbrc.edu/school_vending/
Other:
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Background Information:
Children no longer drink one cup of soda occasionally, but drink an amount that is equivalent to a super-sized soda all day long. The teacher should know which nutrients are supplied by drinking soda, water, milk and juice. Louisiana has legislation that outlines what beverages and foods can be sold during school. For a more complete list of approved beverages and snacks, visit the Pennington Biomedical Research Center website. |
Lesson Procedures:
1. Ask the students to name the different types of beverages they drink during the day. List these responses on Inspiration, the chalkboard or the overhead projector. Organize the beverages by food group.
2. Ask the students “Why is it important to drink liquids during the day?”
Answer:
It is important to drink a variety of different beverages as part of a well- balanced diet. Many different types of beverages are available at the grocery store today—bottled water, 100% fruit juices, fruit flavored beverages, milk, and sodas. Children and adolescents are drinking large amounts of carbonated drinks (sodas) and fruit-flavored beverages that are high in sugar and calories. One 12 fl oz can of soda contains around 150 calories. Drinking extra sodas or super-sizing sodas increases the intake of sugar which means extra calories are consumed. Extra calories not burned off through physical activity will result in weight gain.
3. The smart beverage choices are: water, milk and 100% fruit juice. These beverages provide nutrients as well as calories.
Ask the students why the body needs:
A. Water?
Answer-
Water regulates body temperature. Normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees.
It helps carry nutrients and oxygen to the cells in the body.
Water removes waste from the body.
It lubricates the joints.
Water protects organs and tissues.
Children should drink at least eight glasses of water each day.
Note: Always remember to drink plenty of water before, during and after participating in physical activity to keep the body hydrated.
B. Milk?
Answer-
Milk contains calcium that helps keep bones and teeth strong. It also is needed for our muscles and clotting of blood.
Milk contains Vitamin D which helps the body absorb calcium.
Milk contains protein that helps build muscles, bones and tissues.
Teenagers need two to three servings of eight ounces of milk each day.
Children need two servings of milk each day.
C.100% Fruit Juice?
Answer-
100% Fruit Juice contains vitamins and minerals that are essential for growth and development and everyday body functions.
It also contains carbohydrates for energy.
Phytonutrients, newly discovered food components, aid in disease prevention.
Students need only two servings of fruits each day, including fruit juice.
4. Activity: What’s Inside?
Let’s take a look at the label and the ingredients in each product. There are different types of water, milk, and juice choices available.
NOTE: Obtain empty containers from water, milk, juice and soda to show to the class. Milk cartons or information on milk pouches may be obtained from the school cafeteria. The students can learn more about fat and sugar in beverages at the US Dietary Guidelines website.
A. Milk
Fat-free milk contains zero grams of fat per eight fluid ounces or one cup. It is also known as skim or non-fat milk.
Low-fat milk contains three grams of fat or less per eight fluid ounces or one cup. It is also known as ½% or 1% milk.
Reduced fat milk contains at least five grams of fat per eight fluid ounces or one cup. It is also known as 2% milk.
Whole milk contains eight grams of fat per eight fluid ounces or one cup.
Flavored milk contains more calories per eight fluid ounces or one cup due to sweetener that is added to the milk.
B. Juice
100% fruit juice contains 100% juice from a single juice or juice blend.
Fruit drink, juice beverage, juice cocktail contains less that 100% juice. Some contain only 5% or 10% fruit juice and have sweeteners (sugar) added.
C. Water
Tap water
Spring water flows naturally out of the earth at a particular spot and is bottled.
Flavored
5. Activity: Check out MyPyramid. See what food groups on MyPyramid children's favorite beverages fit into. Keep in mind that, like foods, all beverages can be part of a healthy diet. The key is to drink a variety of different beverages as part of a well-balanced diet. Even healthful beverages such as milk and juice have calories. After drinking the amounts recommended in MyPyramid, drink water. Also, at the Pennington Center website, review the beverages and snacks allowed to be sold during school hours.
6. Activity: Over a three-day period, have the students keep a log of the types and amounts of each beverage they consume in a day. Using Graph Club, have the students graph the number of beverages that they drank by soda, water, milk, juice. Note trends in beverage consumption and identify the beverages that are smart choices.
7. Activity: Help Tellie Answer “Dear Tellie” Letters
Divide the class into groups.
Inform the students that Tellie writes a weekly health column in the local newspaper. Tellie has been overloaded with letters from her readers and needs help to answer the letters.
Distribute one letter to each group. Have someone in the group read the letter to the group.
Each group should give helpful suggestions or recommendations. Write the advice in the form of a friendly letter on the lines provided. Each group member should sign his name at the end of the letter. This activity can be completed using a word processing program.
Allow each group time to read their suggestions to the class.
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Assessment Procedures:
Oral responses to class discussions.
Participation in “What’s Inside” Activity.
Completion of the “Dear Tellie” Activity using a rubric to measure accuracy, problem-solving, etc.,
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Accommodations/Modifications:
Consider different learning styles and abilities when planning the lesson. Teachers must follow special needs student’s Individual Education Plan (IEP) or 504 Modification Plan.
----- written by Division of Nutrition Assistance
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Reproducible Materials:
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Explorations and Extensions:
Identify all the beverages that are offered in the vending machines, concessions, and stores at school. For those beverages that are high in sugar and calories make suggestions for healthier choices. |
Lesson Development Resources:
Apple Juice, (n.d.). Retreived March 16, 2004, from http://www.applejuice.org
American Dietetic Association, (n.d.). Retreived March 16, 2004, from http://www.eatright.org.
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Reflections:
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Contact Information:
Division of Nutrition Assistance
http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/nutrition/1667.html
Louisiana Department of Education
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Additional Contacts:
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Group: Division of Nutrition Assistance |
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