Cultural Diversity and the Food Pyramid

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Cultural Diversity and the Food Pyramid

• Whitney Connelly and Maria Dixon
• Ed200 Curriculum Project
• Spring 06
• Trinity College

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Introduction

• Geared toward a primarily Puerto Rican 2nd Grade
  Class
• Similar to our own classroom experiences
• M.D. Fox Elementary School

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Objectives

• Students will learn how to interact and
  compromise in decision making in a group setting,
  encouraging interpersonal relationships.
• Students will learn about the food pyramid to
  recognize ethnic foods as part of the food
  pyramid, and to regard these food as an important
  part of American nutrition.
• Students will be encouraged to think more
  critically about everyday food choices through a
  series of intrapersonal evaluation and create a
  graph interpreting their daily food choices.
• The students will enhance their
  logical-mathematical skills through a series of
  lessons and activities applying currency counting.

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Justification

• To fulfill the Health and Safety Education
  Standard One in the CT Framework, students will
  establish and maintain healthy eating patterns
  and a physically active life.
• According to the CT Framework standards on Health
  and Nutrition Education, students will plan,
  select, and prepare a nutritious meal based on
  the U.S. dietary guidelines.
• To fulfill the economic standards in the CT
  Framework, students will demonstrate that various
  economic systems coexist, and that economic
  decisions are made by individuals and/or
  governments, influenced by markets, cultural
  traditions, individuals and governments in the
  allocation of goods and services.
• We choose to focus on the Food Pyramid because it
  is a meaningful part of everyday life and the
  children are at a critical age to think more
  deeply about it.

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Weekly Log
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Tuesday

• Students will use intrapersonal reflection to
  brainstorm a list of foods they typically eat
• We will then present them with a food pyramid
  consistent with typical Puerto Rican cuisine
• Students will then apply their understanding of
  the food pyramid to their own food logs which
  they kept over the weekend
• They will fill in a graph of each food group
  according to the amount of servings they ate from
  each category

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Evaluation

• On the sixth day, students will participate in a
  market. They will have to fill out a worksheet
  detailing the items they buy. Each student will
  have to buy one item from each food group, and
  will have to add up the price of their purchases.