Week #4 Lesson Plan
Theme: Nutrition
o 1. Nutrition
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1. Talk about washing hands and its importance, especially before eating
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2. Have each kid write in their notebook the
following observations:
Characteristics we can see:
Smells like:
Texture:
What happens when we make a cut?
What can we observe inside?
·
Sight
·
Smell
·
Texture
Have them each make drawings of the fruit/veggie
before and after cutting it open
Each kid is assigned a fruit or veggie they need
to fill out the above information for their assigned fruit/veggie
Once they are finished, have them share their observations
within their small group
o 2. Harvest seeds
o 3. Taste test
Have them cut up the fruit so that each person
has two pieces
Have kids taste the first piece of the fruits/veggies and make
observations of texture and flavor
Do you like it? Why or why not?
Next label 1, 2, 3, 4 under each column with
three questions 1. fruit/veggie 2. Which? How do you know that, what are the
characteristics?
Kids then do blind fold test with the last piece and
need to try and determine which is which
o 4. Introduction to nutrition lesson
Talk about importance of fruit in terms of
color, what does color signify? Which colors help fight what diseases, etc.?
Have kids tell you names of fruits or veggies for each color, and brainstorm.
Have them make lists
o 5. Mini test on nutrition
Test kids on the different types of colors and
how they help our bodies
o Materials
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Fruit and veggies (enough for each kid to have
one of something)
Papaya
Pepper
Cucumber
Tomatoes
o
Get plates at school from cafeteria
o
Bring knives
o
Paper/notebooks
Comments:
The
nutrition lesson is the lesson that I am most proud of. I came up with the idea
for this class my second day in Nicaragua, and it was so much fun to see it
actually come to life! I am very passionate about advocating healthy and
sustainable food, and I am happy I got the chance to share that with the
kids. One of the goals set by the Ministry of Education in Nicaragua is to
promote nutritious lunches for the students. Because all the directors saw
these gardens as an opportunity to supplement the school lunches I thought it
was important to get the importance of nutrition across to the students.
One of the
reasons I liked this lesson so much was that it not only gave new information, but it built off activities we had done in previous weeks. It also prepared the children for activities we planned to do in
future weeks. Once the students finished their observations, we collected and
washed the seeds (which we learned the importance of two weeks before) and set
them aside to dry for the following week when we would plant them. Once the
students had finished doing their taste testing, we took any remaining fruits/veggies out to the compost pile which we had started week 2. This lesson
was a good example of showing the kids how easy it is to put into practice
everything we had been doing with them.
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