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PEW Learning Outcomes – FoodImpact School Nutrition Program
Students examine personal characteristics, feelings, and emotions and explore understanding of self/ Children describe personal characteristics and explore feelings and emotions.
- Exploring likes, dislikes, trying new foods, how they felt about trying, how their peers felt about it and discuss how we all have different preferences. Key message is to celebrate trying and our differences.
Students explain how boundaries connect to safety
- Students must give consent to try something new – may be verbal or nonverbal. They are taught about how to give verbal and non-verbal forms of liking a food (yum, delicious, mmm, tasty, rub tummy, smiling) and disliking food (no thank you, maybe next time).
Students examine and connect a variety of foods to growth and development
- Students discover how foods can help the body and how that relates to their everyday life
Children explore how food connects to daily life
- Students discover how foods can help the body and how that relates to their everyday life
Students investigate growth and its connection to healthy practices.
- Hand washing, food washing and why
Students examine and connect a variety of foods to growth and development
- Differentiate between whole foods and processed foods reference to grocery store – where you can find both, examples with raspberry vs fruit roll up
- Examine decision making in food selection.- How does this food make me feel? Am I hungry?
- Identify foods that contribute to the growth and development of the body Superpower theme and Canada Food Guide
Students investigate how healthy relationships in learning and playing environments are built through connection.
- Describe the ways community supports relationships with others – whipping cream activity and food riddles as teams
Students investigate growth and its connection to healthy practices.
- Describe how the body grows and changes over time. Introduction to how foods support growth and development of bodies.
Students examine roles, responsibilities, and self-regulation and their connections to self-understanding.
- Explain the benefits of self-regulation with it comes to eating – mindful eating practices with self reflection. Choosing with purpose.
- Describe strategies that support self-regulation and practise – Self reflection, choosing with purpose
Students examine internal and external factors that influence food choices and decisions.
- Discuss cues associated with hunger and thirst.
- Explore recommendations from a variety of food guidelines to support nutritional decisions.
- Examine personal food preferences and discuss with others
- Identify personal food allergens – peanuts and why we need to look out and be considerate of those people, even if we don’t have allergies
- Discuss ways that food provides insights into various cultures, practices, and traditions – holidays, class discussion
Students examine how growth is affected by variables.
- Recognize how a variety of factors can affect healthy growth.
Students analyze different roles within varied contexts and examine how roles can support the development of talents, virtues, and resilience.
- Identify emotions in a variety of situations.
Students investigate food and describe how it affects the body.
- Explore the effects of food and hydration on the brain and body.
- Examine how food-preparation techniques can affect the characteristics of common foods.
Students examine nutrition and explain how it informs decision making about food
- Explain the effect of nutrition on well-being.
- Identify sources of credible nutritional information to determine the requirements for balanced food choices.
- Consider nutritional information that supports decisions related to balanced food choices.
- Explore benefits associated with various foods.
- Investigate food choices that require alternative sources of nutrition.
Students evaluate aspects of nutrition and examine their benefits to well-being
Lesson Plan
Students examine nutrition and explain how it informs decision making about food
- hydration can affect body systems
Students evaluate aspects of nutrition and examine their benefits to well-being
- Identify personal and environmental factors that influence perspectives.
Students examine access to food and its effect on making decisions related to nutrition.
Food Security:
- access to food affects nutritional intake and an individual’s ability to make balanced food choices,
- access and cost within a variety of contexts can affect nutritional choices.
- Discuss sources of nutrition from various cultures and traditions – Specifically First Nations in Alberta
Students consider and describe a variety of perspectives that support the development of healthy relationships.
- Examine the connections between perspectives and social and emotional well-being.
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- Teach them a song that lasts 15 seconds and get them to sing it every time they wash hands (ABC’s, Old MacDonald had a Farm, etc)
- Hang a Where’s Waldo poster above the sink
- Post a new math problem that can be resolved in 15 seconds (shapes/patterns) For example: How many triangles do you see?
Download Handwash Reminder Poster
