Choosing and Advocating for Healthy Foods

6.1N Make a plan to choose healthy foods and beverages.

7.1N Practice how to take personal responsibility for eating healthy foods

7.3N Identify ways to establish and maintain healthy eating practices consistent with current research-based guidelines for a nutritionally balanced diet.

2.1N Identify internal and external influences that affect food choices.

1.1N Identify and define key nutrients and their functions.

What does a nutritionally balanced meal look like? How can you build nutritionally balanced meals that follow given guidelines?

How can you approach your parent or guardian to advocate for healthy foods and beverages to include in the home?

Why is it important to plan, create, and eat nutritionally balanced meals?

• Protein

• Fats

• Carbs

• Calories

• Nutritionally balanced

• Healthy

LP: DEFINE the word healthy in terms of food and beverages

LP: CLASSIFY healthy foods and beverages

LP: GIVE EXAMPLES and NONEXAMPLES of healthy foods and beverages

QC: In your own words, define the word healthy in terms of food and beverages. Given a set of 5 healthy and unhealthy foods and beverages, categorize them into “healthy” and “not as healthy.” Then, list 2 examples of healthy foods and beverages, other than those given, and list 2 nonexamples of healthy foods and beverages, other than those given. 

LP: LOCATE research-based guidelines

LP: DEFINE what a nutritionally balanced diet is setting personal boundaries

QC: Using research-based guidelines, in your own words, define what a nutritionally balanced diet is. 

LP: IDENTIFY the purpose of eating healthy foods

LP: EXPLAIN what is necessary in order to eat healthy foods

LP: Develop an ARGUMENT in favor of eating healthy foods

QC: In a brief persuasive paragraph, write the purpose of eating healthy foods and what nutrients are needed in order to do so.

LP: EVALUATE a given set of meals to determine if they are consistent with research-based guidelines for a nutritionally balanced diet

LP: CRITIQUE a meal for its quality of health

QC: Using the Analyzing and Assessing worksheet, students will independently analyze a meal they have eaten and assess its quality of health.

 LP: DESIGN a meal that includes healthy foods and beverages

LP: FORMULATE a script or presentation to be used to advocate for healthy foods

QC: Design a meal plan that includes healthy foods and beverages and critique the meal in terms of following research-based guidelines for a nutritionally balance diet.

QC: Write a script that you could use to advocate for specific healthy foods to have in your home.

In a paragraph, describe how you could advocate for healthy foods with a parent or guardian and the importance for doing so. 

Create a nutritionally balanced meal plan that includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and at least one snack that follows given guidelines and describes how your meals are nutritionally balanced that you can share with your parents or guardians to advocate for healthy foods in your home.