Nutrition Fair (Click for Project Launch)

As part of our Nutrition Fair, students worked on a Truly Super Foods Mini- Project. 
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Click here to see the powerpoint that explains the aspects of our nutrition fair that Carol's team worked on! 

Nutrition Content:

• 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
    
    

• 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
      
• Encourage and promote healthy eating habits and increased physical activity at school and community
  
  • Weekly guide to being healthy
    
  • PSAs
    
  • Argument Posters→advertisements
    

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