Food And Nutrition
Lesson Plans

Strand 5

Students will identify the sources and functions of select vitamins, minerals and water and apply appropriate food preparation techniques to foods high in these nutrients. (Suggested 7 days)

Standard 2

Identify select minerals, their food sources, functions and deficiencies in the body.

• Basic Minerals - Macro and Trace
  Function and sources of minerals and their role regarding optimum health.
• Fruit and Vegetable, Vitamins and Minerals
  A comprehensive lesson on the study of Vitamins and Minerals, their functions in the body, how fruits and vegetables are a good food source, the deficiencies in the body that may occur due to a lack of and some of the characteristics relating to them.

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