My PLate

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5TH GRADE VIRTUAL HEALTH

L23: Your Digestive System| L24: Food - Nutrients for the Body | L25: MyPlate | L26: Influences on Your Food Choices | L27: Food Labels & Advertising | L28: Changing Families, Changing Roles| L29: Communication in Families | L30: Growth Comes in Stages | L31: Growth, Heredity, and the Endocrine System | L32: Dealing with Adolescence | EXTRA: Choices You Make Affect Growth

Growing UP Healthy

MyPlate

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Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)

LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA

I will know and be able to identify the five (5) food groups.

• dairy or fortified soy alternatives

• fruit

• grains

• proteins

• vegetables

I will know and be able to explain how to use MyPlate to plan and achieve a balanced diet.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Vocabulary

balanced diet - when you choose to eat foods that provide your body with the many nutrients it needs

MyPlate - a tool to help you achieve a balanced diet

OPENING (Engage)

Main Idea

To have a balanced diet, you need to eat a properly portioned variety of foods from the five (5) major food groups every day: dairy, fruits, grains, proteins, and vegetables.

Why Learn This?

You can use what you learn to help you eat a balanced and healthful diet.

WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

READ: MyPlate

Proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins -- some foods have one nutrient, some have another. You need enough, but not too much. You need them every day. Fruits, vegetables, cheese, fish, breads, and on and on -- there are so many food choices!

You need to eat a combination of foods each day that contain all the nutrients your body needs, without eating too much food. When you choose foods that provide your body with the many nutrients it needs, you have a balanced diet. But knowing what foods to choose can be difficult.

How can you know what to eat? MyPlate is a tool to help you achieve a balanced diet. It tells you how much of each type of food you should eat every day. You can use MyPlate to help you plan your meals and snacks. If you follow it carefully, you will have a healthful, balanced, and delicious diet.

How can you achieve a balanced diet?

A healthy eating routine is important at every stage of life. It can have positive effects that add up over time. It’s important to eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy or fortified soy alternatives. When deciding what to eat or drink, choose options that are full of nutrients. Make every bite count.

MyPlate divides food into five (5) major groups. The size of each part of MyPlate tells you how much of each kind of food you should eat. For example, half of your plate should be fruits (focus on whole fruits) and vegetables (vary your veggies) with slightly more vegetables than fruit. The other half of your plate should be grains (make half your grains whole grains) and protein with slightly more grains than protein (vary your protein routine).

Fruits - Vitamins, minerals, some fiber, and sugar are present in these foods. You (9-13 year-olds) need 1-1/2 to 2 cups of fruit per day. Eating fruit has many health benefits. People who eat fruits and vegetables as part of an overall diet may lower their risk for certain diseases. Fruits provide nutrients needed to maintain your health and body.

Nutrients from Fruits

• Most fruits are low in fat, sodium, and calories. Fruits do not have cholesterol.

• Fruits have many essential nutrients that many people don't get enough of. Some examples include potassium, fiber, vitamin C, and folate.

• Diets rich in potassium may help maintain healthy blood pressure. Fruit sources of potassium include bananas, prunes, and prune juice, dried peaches and apricots, cantaloupe, honeydew, orange juice, sapote, jackfruit, guava, and kiwifruit.

• Dietary fiber from fruits, as part of an overall healthy diet, helps reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease. Fiber is important for proper bowel function. Whole or cut-up fruits are sources of dietary fiber. Fruit juices have little or no fiber.

• Vitamin C is important for the growth and repair of all body tissues. It helps heal cuts and wounds and keeps teeth and gums healthy. Vitamin C helps your body absorb iron more easily.

Health Benefits of Fruits

• Eating foods such as fruits that are lower in calories per cup, instead of other higher calorie foods, may help lower overall calorie intake.

• Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables as part of an overall healthy diet may reduce the risk for heart disease, including heart attack and stroke.

• Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables as part of an overall healthy diet may protect against certain types of cancers.

• Adding fruit can help increase the amount of fiber and potassium we eat. These are important nutrients that many people do not get enough of.

Vegetables - These foods contain vitamins, minerals, and sometimes carbohydrates. Many also contain fiber. Girls (9-13 year-olds) need 1-1/2 to 3 cups and boys (9-13 year-olds) need 2 to 3-1/2 cups of vegetables per day. Vegetables are organized into 5 subgroups based on their nutrients: dark green; red and orange; beans, peas, and lentils; starchy; and other vegetables. Eating vegetables provides health benefits. People who eat fruits and vegetables as part of an overall healthy diet are likely to have a reduced risk of some diseases. Vegetables provide nutrients vital for the health and maintenance of the body. 

Nutrients from Vegetables

• Most vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories. Sauces or seasonings may add fat or calories.

• Vegetables are important sources of many nutrients, including potassium, dietary fiber, folate, vitamin A, and vitamin C.

• Diets rich in potassium may help to maintain healthy blood pressure. Vegetable sources of potassium include sweet potatoes, white potatoes, white beans, tomato products (paste, sauce, and juice), beet greens, soybeans, lima beans, spinach, lentils, kidney beans, acorn squash, kohlrabi, and yucca.

• Dietary fiber from vegetables, as part of an overall healthy diet, helps reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease.

• Vitamin A keeps eyes and skin healthy and helps to protect against infection.

• Vitamin C helps heal cuts and wounds and keeps teeth and gums healthy. Vitamin C helps your body absorb iron more easily.

Health Benefits of Vegetables

• As part of an overall healthy diet, eating foods lower in calories per cup, such as vegetables, instead of higher-calorie food may help you lower your calorie intake.

• Eating a diet rich in vegetables and fruits as part of an overall healthy diet may reduce the risk for heart disease, including heart attack and stroke.

• Eating a diet rich in vegetables and fruits as part of an overall healthy diet may protect against certain types of cancers.

• Adding vegetables helps increase fiber and potassium, which many Americans do not get enough of.

Grains - Foods in this group are rich in carbohydrates. Whole-grain foods also contain fiber. Girls (9-13 year-olds) need 5-7 ounces of total grains or 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 ounces of whole grains per day.  Boys (9-13 year-olds) need 5 to 9 ounces of total grains or 3 to 4-1/2 ounces of whole grains per day. Most Americans eat enough total grain foods. However, few eat enough whole grains. At least half of the grains we eat should be whole grains. 

Eating grains, especially whole grains, provides health benefits. People who eat grains regularly may have a reduced risk of some diseases. Grains provide many nutrients that are vital for the health and maintenance of our bodies. 

Nutrients from Grains

• Grains are important sources of many nutrients including complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, several B vitamins, and minerals (iron, magnesium, and selenium).

• Fiber from whole grains may help reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease. Fiber is also important for proper bowel function.

• The B vitamins thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin play a key role in metabolism -- they help the body release energy from protein, fat, and carbohydrates. B vitamins are also essential for a healthy nervous system. Many refined grains are enriched with these B vitamins.

• Iron is used to carry oxygen in the blood. Many teenage girls and women in their childbearing years have iron-deficiency anemia. They should eat foods high in heme-iron (meats) or eat other iron containing foods along with foods rich in vitamin C, which can improve absorption of non-heme iron. Fortified whole and refined grain products including many ready-to-eat cereals, are major sources of non-heme iron in American diets.

• Whole grains are sources of magnesium and selenium. Magnesium is a mineral used in building bones and releasing energy from muscles. Selenium protects cells from oxidation. It is also important for a healthy immune system.

Health Benefits of Grains

All food and beverage choices matter.  Focus on variety, amount, and nutrition.

• Eating whole grains as part of a healthy diet may reduce the risk of getting heart disease.

• Eating whole grain foods that have fiber, as part of an overall healthy diet, can support healthy digestion.

• Eating whole grains, as part of an overall healthy diet, may help with weight management.

• Eating grain products with folate before and during pregnancy as part of an overall healthy diet helps prevent neural tube defects. Neural tube defects are birth defects of the brain, spine, or spinal cord.

What makes you special?

Our interests and strengths make us special. What are some of your interests and strengths?

All of your physical, mental, emotional, and social traits make you special. Your interests, your ideas, and all of your strengths and weaknesses are part of what makes you different from anyone else.

Some of your traits are influenced by your environment -- where you live and all the things around you. If you live on a farm, you may find it easy to spend time alone, because you may not have friends nearby. If you belong to a musical family, you may play an instrument. Your traits are not right or wrong. they are simply part of who you are.

You have some traits that you cannot change. You can't change physical traits such as your height. But you can change mental, emotional, and social traits that you don't like about yourself. You can learn to play an instrument even if your family isn't musical. You can learn to control your temper. With practice, you can become more comfortable speaking in front of a group.

How do groups affect you?

There are many kinds of groups. There are clubs, religious groups, music or dance groups, youth groups, and sports teams. Your family is a group, and so is your class. Together, you and your friends make up a group. Part of getting to know yourself is learning how you feel and act when you are in a group.

You can have different roles in different groups. You may be captain of your soccer team and a singer in a chorus. You may be the computer expert in your social studies club and a beginner in your your art class. Your roles in different groups can and do change over time.

Members of a certain group often share interests or goals. A goal is something you are willing to work for. The goal of your art class may be to finish a mural before the fall art show.

When you are involved in group activities, think about what the group is doing. Ask yourself these questions:

• Is this something I want to do?

• Will I feel good about myself after I do it?

• Is it safe?

• Would my parent(s)/guardian(s) approve?

• What could I do instead?

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Remember that knowing the parts of ourselves we can't change is an important exercise in acceptance. When we accept ourselves as we are, it is easier to accept other people as well.

Standard(s)

HE5.1a - recognize the relationship between healthy behaviors and disease prevention

HE5.1b - describe and apply the basic personal health concepts of healthy eating and physical activity

HE5.1c - describe and apply the basic health concept of mental and emotional well-being

HE5.1d - describe and apply the basic health concept of personal hygiene and safety

HE5.1e - distinguish the short and long-term physical effects of use and/or misuse of substances

HE5.1f - identify trusted adults and when it might be important to seek health care or emergency help for themselves or others

HE5.1g - identify the changes that occur during puberty

HE5.1h - distinguish between tattling, reporting aggression, bullying, cyberbullying, and violence (physical and/or sexual) and how to report these instances

HE5.1i - identify strategies to avoid physical fighting and violence

HE5.2a - evaluate the influence of family and peers on personal health behaviors and decisions

HE5.2b - describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors

HE5.2c - explain how media/technology influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors

HE5.3a - identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.3b - access resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information

HE5.3c - assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE5.4a - apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health

HE5.4b - model effective nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflicts

HE5.4c - demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others

HE5.5a - identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision

HE5.5b - list healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem

HE5.5c - predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision

HE5.5d - analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision

HE5.5e - choose a healthy option when making a decision

HE5.5f - describe the outcomes of a health-related decision

HE5.6a - set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement

HE5.6b - identify and utilize resources to assist in achieving a personal health goal

HE5.7a - practice responsible personal health choices

HE5.7b - demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health

HE5.7c - model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others

HE5.8a - review accurate information and develop an opinion about a health issue

HE5.8b - advocate for positive health choices

Essential Question(s)

1. What are the five food groups?

2. How do you use MyPlate to plan and achieve a balanced diet?

Big Idea(s)

1. The five (5) major food groups are dairy, fruits, grains, proteins, and vegetables.

2. Making a long-term change strengthens a person's self-respect by helping to make them feel confident, capable, and proud for meeting a goal.

RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

• see below

DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials

• Your Health: Teacher's Edition - Grade 5. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1999.

Technology

• Google Sites - HPE website

• Chromebook

• large video screens for whole-class viewing

• sound system for sharing of audio

• MyPlate.gov

• BrainPOP - Body Systems

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  • BrainPOP - Nervous System

  • BrainPOP - Respiratory System

  • BrainPOP - Urinary System

• Senses

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  • BrainPOP - Eyes

  • BrainPOP - Hearing

  • BrainPOP - Smell

  • BrainPOP - Taste

  • BrainPOP - Touch

• BrainPOP - Body Weight

• BrainPOP - Broken Bones

• BrainPOP - Carbohydrates

• BrainPOP - Eating Disorders

• BrainPOP - Fats

• WBrainPOP - Fitness | At-Home Fitness

• BrainPOP - Growth

• BrainPOP - Heart

• BrainPOP - Metabolism

• BrainPOP - Muscles | Steroids

• BrainPOP - Nutrition

• BrainPOP - Obesity

• BrainPOP - Personal Hygiene | How Soap Works

• BrainPOP - Salt

• BrainPOP - Skeleton | Joints