Food Group Business Plan

Teaching and guidance was the main thing provided to the fourth graders at this particular focus on health. To begin, a poster board was provided in which nutritional information was

Teacher leads discussion and Introduces new vocabulary terms by giving a description, explanation, and examples of the term. The students will draw pictures, symbols or use graphic organizers to represent new terms. Students will discuss terms in small groups.

After the students, have worked in their groups to come up with words. Students words are place up in front of the room.

To touch on poor nutrition, research shows that almost one-third of U.S. children between the ages of four and nineteen eat fast food every day; this results in weight gain of approximately 6 extra pounds on a growing child each year (NACHRI, 2007). Fast food consumption has increased fivefold among children since 1970. Not only is fast food an issue, but when parents reward their children with sugary foods and/or use fruits and vegetables as a punishment, this may cause children’s views toward nutritious food to be negative. Some great educational tools that can be shared both in and out of the classroom are “The Food Guide Pyramid” and “My Plate.” Both show that appropriate number of serving of each food category. “My Plate” does a great job of even providing games, activity sheets, kid-friendly recipes, and physical activity tips to elementary aged children (My Plate, 2015). They also provide great resources for adults so parents and educators can practice what they preach and set good examples for children. Educating children on an what a healthy diet consists of and why it is important is probably the greatest preventative tool we can use to prevent obesity. As the famous saying goes, “knowledge is

Read the poem “Five green and speckled frogs”. Read it once out loud with them. Then pass out the little cards paper clipped together to random students. Have them find the words that match the sounds in the poems.

Under 5’s: How healthy school dinners meet the nutritional requirements of the need for under 5’s.

Step 1. Beginning: I would have my students start their story by going around the room individually and selecting vocabulary words that are on our walls to use in their story. They will have to create

Describe how you plan to support the children (during and/or prior to the learning experience) to develop and use the key vocabulary identified in prompt 4a.

Mrs. Black attempted to make some connections to prior knowledge for the students, but unfortunately, they were not connecting. Mrs. Black use the word "spectrum" as an example of word with the root word "spect". The reference was the shopping center located here in Chino Hills; however, none of the students knew about it. My suggestion for the teacher to connect to prior knowledge by further probing the meaning of the word, a spectrum (glass when light shines on it creates a rainbow), etc. might have sparked a connection with some students. Mrs. Black used a selection of instructional strategies: board, word cards, chart, worksheet, oral, written, kinesthetic. However some of them weren't responsive to student needs. For

Go over each vocabulary word asking the students, “Do you know what ____ means?” (can prompt students if needed)

During my undergraduate studies, I took a nutrition and dietetics course. This course was designed to teach students the importance of proper nutrition, which foods were considered healthy and which foods were unhealthy. We learned how to make meal plans, grocery list, meal preparation, which foods were good for certain health issues and which foods to avoid. During this course, I learned principals to promote healthy eating and the prevention of diet related disease conditions. I have always been interested in having a healthy lifestyle and staying healthy. This course helped to give me the foundation that I needed to begin the journey to becoming healthy and maintaining it. I feel the instructor and the lessons that we were taught were very well planned and organized. Thanks to a great instructor, my peers and I were able to leave the class knowing so much more about nutrition than we did before the course.

“Effective vocabulary instruction is multidimensional and intentional” (Sweeny & Mason, 2011). It is important for teachers to find helpful strategies when teaching new science vocabulary to their students. Technology today has opened a whole new world of strategies for teaching science vocabulary such as, word games, scavenger hunts, graphic organizers, etc. instead of the old way of just having students write the words in a notebook and find the definitions in a dictionary or glossary. In order to keep students engaged in learning teachers need to make sure that their instruction is interactive and fun. To help with learning academic vocabulary teachers need to incorporate the following; helpful strategies and activities, provide students with instruction and development, and ways to differentiate in order to meet the needs of ELLs and students with learning disabilities.

Divide students into small groups of three students. Provide each group with a bag of differing items and a prediction questioner. Each group will predict if an item from the bag will be attracted to or repelled from the magnet and why using think-pair-share strategy. First, demonstrate how to fill to predict and fill out the worksheet by using a piece of foil as an example. By a show of thumbs: thumbs up means I understand what to do; thumbs down means I do not understand what to do. Clarify if there is any misunderstanding on what to do otherwise have them fill out the prediction work sheet. Once each group has finished with the activity have one person from each group present their predictions to the whole class as you write the results on the board. Then give each group a giant magnet to test their predictions to determine if they were correct or not and record the results on their predication worksheet. Again, have groups use the think-pair-share strategy to determine why their predictions were incorrect if any. Once the activity is completed review the vocabulary using their prediction results which were posted on the board.

Healthy eating is the step that youth should take to keep a well fit body. Proper nutrition promotes the optimal growth and development of children (Nutrition Environment, 2015). Many children are facing problematic health issues such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and more because of not eating well. Following a daily routine of getting 3 meals a day and drinking lots of water can be a jump start for children. It will not be an easy process at first but will take a little time and patience for everything to become natural to a child. It is very important that parent or guardian make healthy choices appealing. Starting at home will help create healthy eating habit. These habits transfer from home to school where teacher continue to help children understand how important it is to stay

Through Kahoot, I will create a quiz that will test my students on vocabulary words. Throughout the quiz the students will be asked to define words, unscramble words, and also fill in the blank questions. The words that will be on the quiz our vocabulary words for third graders. I found a list of vocabulary words from Ithan Elementary School website. The purpose of this quiz