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As part of our Nutrition Fair, students worked on a Truly Super Foods Mini- Project.
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Nutrition Content:
Nutrition Fair: The Experience
Attractions
Roles
-PreProduction/Exhibition
- Describe the food groups, dietary guides, food groups, nutrietns for healthy eating habits
- daily food log (Nov. 3-Nov. 20)
- Direct instruction about nutritiion
- activities from workbook
- identify key components of food labels
- daily food log (Nov. 3-Nov. 20)
- Evaluate one’s current daily food intake for nutritional requirements. Create a personal plan…
- after 3 weeks of food logs (Nov 3-Nov 20) students assess how healthy they are. They create a plan (food and physical activity) to become more healthy. Then they implement the plan after Thanksgiving break
- After plan, reflect on experience, how they feel, what they struggled with and succeeded at
- explain each piece of the plan
- create a guide based on their revised plan, that gives a quick snapshot of how to be healthy for a week
- recipes
- photos
- explanations
- recipes
- after 3 weeks of food logs (Nov 3-Nov 20) students assess how healthy they are. They create a plan (food and physical activity) to become more healthy. Then they implement the plan after Thanksgiving break
- Encourage and promote healthy eating habits and increased physical activity at school and community
- Weekly guide to being healthy
- PSAs
- Argument Posters→advertisements
- Weekly guide to being healthy
Nutrition Fair: The Experience
- Greeted by a Curator/Carnie?. “Step right up”. Busy atmosphere. High energy. The guests are given a pamphlet/map that shows the layout of the exhibition and tells about the exhibition. Think Disneyland.
- Enter carnival. Games/booths set up. Guests can meander through. They play games, buy food… ATTEND the fair…
- After the fair, guests are interviewed about the experience. How has the fair impacted their impression about being healthy? On a post card, write one change you want to make. After christmas, the postcards will be mailed out.
Attractions
- Giant Operation Board
- Toss food into the shopping cart
- pinball machine through the human body
- spray away: water vs soda
- Fun house mirrors: distorting the image of food
- Dieticians/nutritionists: offering free consultations and passing out weekly health guides
- Psychics/fortune tellers: tell me what you ate today and I will tell you how you will feel tomorrow
- Musicians: playing nutrition jingles
- magicians
- Haunted House: what will happen to your body if…
- World’s Strongest Man: explaining physical fitness
Roles
-PreProduction/Exhibition
- Carnies: Design (plan out) and build sets for their attraction. Build the environment the curators design for the fair. Run the attraction during the fair. KURT
- Media Crew: create PSAs, printed advertisements, document the pre-production process. Photograph the fair, document the fair, conduct exit interview with guests. HENRY
- Curators: design the layout of the fair. Create the fair experience. How it will run. Greet guests at the fair. Hand out map/pamphlets and set the tone of the experience. CATE
- Costume Designers/Food Sellers: Plan costumes for every student/help every student plan costumes that reflect a healthy carnival fair. Sell healthy snacks and explain why they are healthy alternatives. CAROL