INTRODUCTION TO PREASSESSMENT
There is wisdom in evaluating the food patterns of your family. Good food patterns should be preserved. Poor food patterns should be consciously and purposefully changed by evaluating them against current nutrition science information. Every person's total health is related to eating smart.
DIRECTIONS
Divide the students into small groups. Give each group a picture or a plastic model of any food item. On a large piece of paper have the students list all the facts they can recall about its nutritional content. Have each group report back to the class and post their group list in the classroom. Have class members record notes in their notebooks.
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Have the students work in small groups to write short poetry forms about their assigned nutrient, or have them design and assemble bulletin boards about their nutrient.
NOTE TO THE TEACHER ON POETRY AND JINGLE WRITING
Create interest in sharing ideas through writing. This method of teaching is used to: emphasize important points in a lesson and to develop creativity in students. Explain to the students that no special talent is needed to write and that creativity develops through practice.
POETRY FORM EXAMPLES
| JINGLE |
LIMERICK |
Rhyme scheme:
Lines 1 and 2 rhyme |
Rhyme scheme:
Lines 1,2,5 rhyme and Lines 3,4 rhyme |
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An Apple a Day
Keeps the Doctor Away.
OR
I'm tired of eating just beans
Let's open a can of sardines. |
A ravenous gent in Japan
Ordered perishable food by the van
To the obvious question,
"Won't you get indigestion?"
He replied, "What I can't eat I'll can!" |
TAKE 5
Rhyme scheme: Five lines
- noun
- two adjectives
- three verbs
- phrase describing or thought
- repeat noun or synonym
Apples
Red, green
Hanging, Falling, Changing
Wanting to be picked
Apples
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