Where Are the Nutrients?

Purpose: To make a food pyramid to better understand nutrition

Materials

• food pyramid pattern
• food pyramid from “You Are What You Eat”
• colored pencils
• glue
• scissors

Procedure

1. Using the food pyramid, fill in the number of recommended servings for each food group on face A.
2. On face B, list all the foods you ate on a recent day.
3. In the corresponding spaces on face C, draw pictures representing the number of food servings per group listed on face B.
4. Using scissors cut along the solid lines.
5. Fold along the dotted lines.
6. Place a small amount of glue to each tab and press to secure.
7. Use the food pyramid to plan the next day’s menu.

 

Conclusion

1. How do you think superstitions get started?
2. Why do people believe in superstitions?

Extension

A quack is often thought of as a person who falsely promotes medical products or services. Throughout our history there have always been “quacks” selling the public things that would never work such as oil that can cure cancer. Some products are based on partial truths and reference false authorities or have testimonials from “cured” people. Discuss in your group or as a class what items you have seen advertised that might not be totally truthful. Come up with your own quack device and construct a model. Design a full-page advertisement for a magazine or newspaper. Prepare a one-minute television commercial or a five-minute infomercial. Present your ad and commercial to the class. Discuss how quacks can originate superstitions.