After our MyPlate project I can see that my students need a little more work on whole grains. They noticed that Poptarts and Oreos counted towards servings of grains and now think they are healthy snack servings.
I start this lesson with a formative assessment to evaluate what students already know about whole grains. I show the students a collection of bread and snack packaging. I hold up each item and ask for either a thumbs up for "healthy" or down "unhealthy." Students are basically guessing based on packaging because they cannot read a nutrition label from where they are.
When the labels are sorted I show a YouTube clip describing the importance of fiber. (HealthiNation is a great channel to follow for quick, informative nutrition clips.)
After a short discussion on fiber I show a clip about choosing whole grain bread.
Using information from the videos I ask the students to read information from the various labels and decide if the food is a good source of fiber and if it is a whole grain.
I have a tendency to grab the most healthy-looking package instead of reading a label to be sure that the bread or product is a whole grain. This lesson plan is a good reminder for me!
Tomorrow we are preparing various whole grains from scratch. We found out today that the main ingredient in Fruit Loops is indeed whole wheat flour... followed by sugar. Hopefully tomorrow's lab will create some oatmeal and polenta converts!
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