Nutrition

 
Teacher Notes:
This particular assignment targets 1st grade students.  When choosing educational websites regarding nutrition, make sure to choose activities that are age appropriate and that will foster a strong educational reinforcement towards healthy, nutritional choices.
For your ELL and special education students, make sure to choose websites that encompass a variety of educational information separated by levels of difficulty, aiming towards the lower levels.  Allow them more time as well as resource help in the completion of their assignments .
To target higher learners you may want to choose additional websites that encompass a variety of educational information separated by levels of difficulty, aiming towards the advanced levels. You may want to add an additional degree of difficulty to their assignments.

Standards are from Arizona:
Strand 1:
Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Concepts
Concept 1: Understand Relationship Between Health Behaviors and Health
PO 1. Identify that healthy behaviors affect personal health and overall well-being.
Concept 3: Understanding Personal Health
PO 2. Identify that foods are classified into food groups and that a variety of food is needed for personal health, growth, and development.

Strand 2:
Analysis of Factors Affecting Health Behaviors
Concept 1: External Influences on Personal Health
PO 1. Identify how the family influences personal health practices and behaviors
PO 4. Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors
PO 6. Recognize how technology can influence personal health

Strand 3:
Access to Health Information, Products, and Services to Enhance Health
Concept 1: Knowledge of Sources of Help
PO 1. Identify tructed adults and professionals who can help promote health

Strand 4:
Use of Interpersonal Communication Skills to Enhance Health
Concept 1: Communication to Enhance Help
PO 2. Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health

Strand 5:
Use of Decision-Making Skills to Enhance Health
Concept 1: Influences on Health Decision Making
PO 1. Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making

Strand 6:
Use of Goal-Setting Skills to Enhance Health
Concept 2: Health-Related Goal Setting
PO 1. Identify a short-term personal health goal and take action toward achieving the goal.
PO 2. Identify who can help when assistance is needed to achieve a personal health goal

Strand 7:
Ability to Practice Health-Enhancing Behaviors
Concept 2: Healthy Practices and Behaviors
PO 1. Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health
PO 2. Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks

Strand 8:
Ability to Advocate for Health
Concept 1: Personal Advocacy
PO 1. Make requests to promote personal health
PO 2. Encourage family and peers to make positive health choices