Unhealthy foods are frequently advertised to children. Parents and teachers desire to encourage children to choose healthy alternatives to snack foods containing high sugar and fat content. Students in early elementary grades can learn about nutrition through story-telling, songs, and a familiar hunting game.
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Using an Egg Hunt to Teach about Nutrition
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Materials Needed: Teacher resource textbook, e.g.,"Comprehensive School Health Education: Second Edition" by Linda Meeks, Philip Heit, & Randy Page (1996), Meeks Heit Publishing Co., or pamphlet or videotape on nutrition education.
2. Children's book about foods and eating, e.g., "My Eating Book" by Jane Gelbard and Betsy Bober Polivy (1989), Grosset & Dunlap, or "Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food" by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
3. 3-4 dozen hollow plastic Easter eggs.
4. 3-4 dozen small slips of paper.
5. Photographic, magazine, or clip art illustrations of foods.
6. Crayons and markers.
7. Small paper lunch bags.
8. Glue or tape.
9. "Healthy Foods Songsheet";.
10. A healthy snack food, e.g., juice or milk, apples, raisins, or carrots.
11. Coloring sheets featuring healthy and unhealthy food choices.
12. "Healthy Foods Song" (sung to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down). Prepare as a large-print songsheet to be taken home to parent-guardian.
"Healthy foods are good for me, good for me, good for me.
Healthy foods are good for me, each and every day."
Author: Brian F. Geiger, A. Sandra Willis
Source: © www.eduref.org
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