Lesson Idea | Nutritional Value of Fresh Produce

Description

Students learn that fresh fruits and vegetables provide important nutrients, including vitamins A and C and dietary fiber. They compare the amounts of these nutrients in different types of produce and use the information to create and interpret bar graphs. Through the activities, students develop their understanding of nutrition and learn that different fruits and vegetables contain different amounts of nutrients.

National Content Area Standards

• Health/Nutrition
Health Standard 5: Demonstrate effective decision-making skills to enhance health.
5.5.6: Choose a health-promoting option that aligns with personal values when making an effective decision.
Health Standard 7: Demonstrate observable health and safety practices.
7.5.1: Demonstrate age and developmentally appropriate observable health and safety practices.

National Agricultural Literacy Outcomes

• Food, Health & Lifestyle
Identify food sources of required food nutrients (T3.3-5.g)
Describe the necessary food components of a healthy diet using the current dietary guidelines (T3.3-5.a)

Common Core Standards

• Practice Standards – Mathematics
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, “Does this make sense?” They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4: Model with mathematics. Students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. Students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions.