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Understand My Plate as a tool for selecting nutritious food. Understand food and beverages that are beneficial to your teeth and bone health.Understand the importance of consuming a variety of nutrient dense foods and beverages in moderation. Understand what activities or recreations you can do outside of school.

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What is My Plate? What are the five major parts of My Plate? How does My Plate help you to pick nutrient dense foods?  What is an example of a healthy food and an unhealthy food? How does food and beverages affect your teeth and bone health? What are some activities you can enjoy outside of school?

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*Healthful Living: My Plate and learning how to choose healthy options.
*MyPlate Vocabulary
Fruits: watermelon, strawberries, oranges etc.
Vegetables: green veggies such as broccoli or lettuce.
Grains: oatmeal, bread, brown rice or popcorn.
Protein: fish, beans, chicken or beef.
Dairy: yogurt, cheese or milk.
Nutrients: gives nourishment to your body.
*Science: teeth and bone structure.

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*This illustration is by Robert Neubecker.
*Robert Neubecker has various illustrations and painting based around food and nutrition.
* This specific illustration was used to show what Americans should eat.
* Robert also has various cookbooks that he illustrates for and is passionate about the art of food.
https://www.robertneubecker.com

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Map, Categorize, Use Unusual Materials, and Hybridize

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Illustrations of MyPlate and Illustrations of teeth and bone health affected by food.

*Helpful Links
https://www.choosemyplate.gov

https://www.choosemyplate.gov/browse-by-audience/view-all-audiences/children/kids

https://www.choosemyplate.gov/eathealthy/dairy/dairy-nutrients-health

https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/nutrition-and-oral-health/nutrition-for-healthy-teeth-child-growth-and-development

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What did you notice when looking at MyPlate? What took up most of the plate and what took up the smallest amount of the plate? What types of food are good for your bones and teeth? What type of MyPlate can you make using the five categories? What's a type of food that would be considered a sometimes food? What activities or recreations do you participate in outside of school? What new activity or recreation do you want to try?

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This lesson will incorporate the students making their own MyPlate. They will be given a template such as the one above. They will be required to illustrate a food that would fit in each category that they like to eat. Therefore, they will be using this template to make a meal they would actually eat that is healthy and follows the MyPlate template. For example, I could make a meal of strawberries (fruit), broccoli (vegetable), brown rice (grain), fish (protein) and milk (dairy).

Reflection: After the students have all finished their MyPlate meals. I want everyone to share with a partner. This will help the students see other possibilities that they could've made as well using MyPlate.

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This lesson will help students improve and practice which foods belong in certain food categories on MyPlate. The five categories are above. Each student will role a dice that either has green, red, orange, purple or blue on it. They will then go up to the board and under that category draw a food or drink that would fit under that category. For example if I rolled the dice and it was red I would go up to the board and draw a banana.

Reflection: At the end of the lesson we will all have a discussion about everything we drew on the board. We will ask ourselves if everything is correct or if there is anything else we can add on the board.

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This lesson will help students to determine what foods are bad or good for their teeth and bones. They will get pictures of food healthy and unhealthy. There is an example above of some foods and drinks that would be incorporated. The students will get a copy of two teeth one happy and one sad. They will then glue to pictures on the appropriate teeth. For example, I would put a carrot on the happy tooth and a piece of chocolate on the sad tooth.

Reflection: After this lesson is over the students will get with partners and make a short movie. Their movie will consist of one of them being the sad tooth and one of them being the happy tooth. They will then describe why the tooth is happy or why the tooth is sad.

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This lesson will help students understand the importance of the five food groups given by MyPlate. The class will be split up into five groups which will be fruit, vegetable, grain, protein and dairy. They will then do some research as a group on their food group and create a poster of examples of the food, how much is needed of it and  what it does for your body.

Reflection: After all the groups have finished their poster they will all present to the class. This will ensure that everyone gets information on every food group.

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The purpose of this lesson will be for the students to come up with a new activity or recreation that they can participate in outside of school for exercise. We will begin this lesson by the students picking two of their favorite activities of recreations. They will then try to use both of them to form a new activity that would be fun. For example, if I choose basketball and dance I would come up with a new activity that incorporated both which could possibly be a dance using a basketball.

Reflection:
After this lesson some students would be encouraged to share their creations. This will help everyone in the class go home with a lot of different ideas for some activities to do at home to get exercise.

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What did you learn about MyPlate and the five categories of food? How did exploring the smart choices for food help you to reflect on your current food choices? What did you learn about teeth and bones and how your food choices can affect them? How did you decide on what activity or recreation to create and why? Based on what you learned in this lesson what can you do next to help your healthy lifestyle?

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The wrap-lesson will include students getting in small groups and each playing a role of one food group whether it be fruit, vegetable, grain, protein or dairy and make a fun movie to review everything they've learned. After they finish recording their movies the class as a whole will watch all the videos to get one last review of the material.