The document provides information about a nutrition lesson for third grade students in Jacksonville, Florida. The majority of students in the target area have a lower socioeconomic status and live in a "food desert" without easy access to affordable, healthy foods. The objectives of the 60-minute lesson are to teach students to identify fruits and vegetables by color, understand healthy food choices on a budget, and participate in a mock farmers market budgeting activity. The lesson incorporates a pre-test, video, coloring activity, review of "Go, Slow, Whoa" foods, flashcards, and post-test to educate students on eating a healthy, colorful diet while shopping for foods on a limited budget.
The document provides information about a nutrition lesson for third grade students in Jacksonville, Florida. The majority of students in the target area have a lower socioeconomic status and live in a "food desert" without easy access to affordable, healthy foods. The objectives of the 60-minute lesson are to teach students to identify fruits and vegetables by color, understand healthy food choices on a budget, and participate in a mock farmers market budgeting activity. The lesson incorporates a pre-test, video, coloring activity, review of "Go, Slow, Whoa" foods, flashcards, and post-test to educate students on eating a healthy, colorful diet while shopping for foods on a limited budget.
The document provides information about a nutrition lesson for third grade students in Jacksonville, Florida. The majority of students in the target area have a lower socioeconomic status and live in a "food desert" without easy access to affordable, healthy foods. The objectives of the 60-minute lesson are to teach students to identify fruits and vegetables by color, understand healthy food choices on a budget, and participate in a mock farmers market budgeting activity. The lesson incorporates a pre-test, video, coloring activity, review of "Go, Slow, Whoa" foods, flashcards, and post-test to educate students on eating a healthy, colorful diet while shopping for foods on a limited budget.
The document provides information about a nutrition lesson for third grade students in Jacksonville, Florida. The majority of students in the target area have a lower socioeconomic status and live in a "food desert" without easy access to affordable, healthy foods. The objectives of the 60-minute lesson are to teach students to identify fruits and vegetables by color, understand healthy food choices on a budget, and participate in a mock farmers market budgeting activity. The lesson incorporates a pre-test, video, coloring activity, review of "Go, Slow, Whoa" foods, flashcards, and post-test to educate students on eating a healthy, colorful diet while shopping for foods on a limited budget.
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Title: Eating a Rainbow on a Budget
Audience: The target audience for our nutrition lesson is going to be third students at Jacksonville Public Schools. The majority of third grade students are usually eight and nine years old. The socioeconomic status for the middle school students that will be our audience is lower than the city of Jacksonville and State of Florida. A little over half complete 8th grade rounding to 64% compared to the state of Florida which at 85%. Those numbers significantly decrease when it comes to those completely high schools or any form of higher education. This explains why that zone has the lowest income per capita and employment rate in the city and state of Florida. The challenges don't stop there, a correlation of low literacy, low employment and low income is the perfect setup and condition for high crime in the area. The crime rate in that area is two times higher compared to the state of Florida. The majority, if not all of the third graders in this area live in a food desert where there is no grocery store. There is a farmers market not to far away by car but with the socioeconomic system illustrated above; many third graders families don't have access to transportation. Places like the convenience stores that may have food is very limited in amount and choice. The third grade students are able to eat at school and receive free or reduced lunch. The use of EBT to get food outside of school is another way students in this zone purchases food. The Financial literacy center JA has initiated and created a curriculum which will create third grade students that are different from many others in their county. The education will allow them to be more aware of healthy eating and budgeting food. They learn things most third graders don't have learn about like debit cards and spending earned income wisely. Due to the conditions of their surroundings, it's necessary to teach the new younger generation to increase the lifestyle of the people in that zone. This lesson plan is an example of what third graders in New Town may be exposed to at Mitchell Community Center. Objectives: 1. The participants will be able to state 3 fruits and 3 vegetables and their colors. Learning domain: cognitive 2. The participants will understand what eating the rainbow means and identify foods that should be eaten always, sometimes and rarely. Learning domain: cognitive 3. The participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of eating healthy on a budget by participating in a mock farmers market. Learning domain: cognitive and psychomotor Duration: 60 minutes
Procedure Introduction (3 minutes) Greet Students. Introduce topic for the lesson- Eating a Rainbow. Engage audience by ask students if they know what this concept might mean and explain what the phrase Eat a Rainbow means. Give a brief outline of the schedule for the lesson: pretest, PowerPoint pictures, video, activities and recipe.
Body Pre-test (5 minutes) Hand out pre-tests and allow students to complete them, then collect the tests. Make sure to explain to the students that it is okay if they do not know the answers to the questions but should try their best to answer them. FIT KIDS Eating a Rainbow Everyday Video- YouTube (3 minutes) Introduce the video to students and play the video from YouTube. link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ9-euobt0 Reemphasize the major points of the video and ask the kids if they remember details from the video to keep engagement. (example: What are colorful fruits and vegetables full of?) Powerpoint Activity- Eat the Rainbow (7 minutes) Project the PowerPoint in the front of the room. Then read introduction slides out loud to students. For each color slide, ask the students to name some of the fruits and vegetables they see on the slide. Once most of the foods have been named, press enter or click the screen to reveal the names of all the foods. Do this with each slide.
Coloring sheet activity (10 minutes)
Pass out Eat a Rainbow (Every day) Coloring sheet and colored pencils or markers to students. Allow the students to color the rainbow of fruits and vegetables and walk around asking students to name some of the foods on the coloring page. Ask the class to write the name of the fruit or vegetable next to its picture on the coloring page. Then ask them to put this coloring sheet on the refrigerator when they get home as a reminder each day to try to eat as many colors on the rainbow as they can. Then collect colored pencils or markers but allow students to keep the coloring sheets.
Go, Slow, and Whoa Foods (4 minutes)
Pass out Go, Slow, Whoa Handout to students. Explain to students that sometimes foods that we should not eat everyday may also be colorful. However, we should be careful because these foods often have fake coloring and they are not as healthy for us as the colorful fruits and vegetables that are naturally colorful. Explain that the chart of Go, Slow and Whoa foods shows them what foods to eat always, sometimes and rarely. Reemphasize that eating a rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables every day is a good start to being healthy but that the foods in the slow list can be eaten sometimes and the ones in the whoa list should not be eaten as often. Go, Slow, and Whoa Flashcards (5 minutes) Use laminated flashcards to review and practice which foods are in the go, slow, and whoa group. Show the picture of the food to the class and have the kids at one time say aloud which group they think the food belongs to. Then show the correct answer and say it out loud. Do this with as many flashcards as time permits. Budgeting Game- Mock Farmers Market (15 minutes) The students will participate in a mock farmers market to learn how to budget and be able to purchase healthy foods that are not expensive. There should be a few tables set up with fake foods on display- fruits and vegetables as well as other foods like chips, crackers, and cookies (use empty boxes for these items). *Before class, place prices on the foods that represent real prices from the farmers market. Take this information from the document with the list of prices provided, Label the fake packaged foods- cookies, crackers, etc. with prices that would also be found in grocery store.* Give each student 10 dollars in fake money. Ask the children to act as if they are at the market and with their fake money, ask them to purchase as many different colors of foods as they can with the money they have. After they are done shopping ask them to return to their seats with their purchases and ask the students how many colors they were able to buy. Review with students how buying fruits and vegetables can be cheaper than buying junk food like chips and cookies.
Conclusion Post-test (5 minutes) Pass out post-tests and collect when students are finished. Recipe and Participation stickers (3 minutes) Hand out fruit salad recipes for students to take with them to the farmers market. Tell them they will be buying the items in the recipe so they can prepare it at home and enjoy it. Thank them for listening and participating. Handout stickers to students as a reward for participating in the lesson.
Materials and Resources:
Computer and projector for displaying a PowerPoint Presentation and Youtube video pre/post tests and pencils coloring sheet https://www.stuffed-pepper.com/files/eatarainbow.jpg markers or colored pencils Go, Slow, Whoa handout: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/downloads/urwhateat.pdf Go, Slow, Whoa flash cards- laminated http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/downloads/gswflashcards.pdf fake food and empty snack food boxes fake money fruit salad recipe Rainbow food stickers http://nutritioneducationstore.com/products/-855-161.html pack of 100 for $9.99
Name: ________________
Eating the Rainbow-on a budget!
Pre- Test 1. Name 3 fruits and what color they are. FRUIT
COLOR
2. Name 3 vegetables and what color they are.
VEGETABLE
COLOR
3. Which food should we only eat sometimes?
a. Grapes b. Carrots c. Fruit juice d. Broccoli 4. Which item is the most expensive? a. A banana b. An apple c. A box of cookies d. A squash
Name: ________________
Eating the Rainbow-on a budget!
Post- Test 1. Name 3 fruits and what color they are. FRUIT
COLOR
2. Name 3 vegetables and what color they are.
VEGETABLE
COLOR
3. Which food should we only eat sometimes?
a. Grapes b. Carrots c. Fruit juice d. Broccoli 4. Which item is the most expensive? a. A banana b. An apple c. A box of cookies d. A squash
Cut cantaloupe in half and then use a spoon to scoop into balls. Place cantaloupe balls into large bowl. Peel kiwi fruits and cut them into slices. Then place them in bowl. Peel the bananas and cut them horizontally into half-inch thick slices. Place the bananas in the bowl and serve immediately. *If saved for later place in refrigerator until it is ready to be served.
