2. Technology Integration Rationale
How often do elementary aged
students get exposed to nutrition?
How do they decide which foods are
unhealthy or healthy? As a topic that
is usually left out until the upper
primary grades, nutrition is an
important topic for all ages.
Integrating technology to this
somewhat complicated topic of
nutrition will allow students to form a
deeper understanding of the
information, all while keeping them
engaged.
3. Internet Content Reliability
• All of the websites that are used in this presentation are
reliable sources as they relate to teaching nutrition to
elementary aged students.
4. Blog
While this blog is teacher centered as opposed to student
centered, it gives teachers a variety of resources pertaining
to nutrition and physical activity. This blog gives teachers
healthy snack ideas for everyday and special school
celebrations (ex. Valentines Day). This blog also gives
teachers fun activities, some focused on nutrition and
others to simply get kids moving!
5. Podcast
Eating Healthy in a Junk Food World: Helping Your Kids
Eat Healthier
This podcast gives strategies in order to make healthy eating easier
for kids. For example, the podcast suggests traffic light eating. It
suggests that green light foods are go to foods that you can have as
much as you want. A yellow light food would be a food that you should
have in moderation. A red light food would be a sometimes to rarely
food, or a “birthday party” food. This strategy gives elementary aged
students meaningful connections about moderation and healthy eating
tips.
6. Video from Kahn Academy
This video from Kahn Academy serves as an overview of the digestive
system as an instructional preparation tool for teachers. The video
outlines the digestive tract, the various organs, body parts, and
enzymes involved. The digestive system is an important part in
understanding nutrition and will be important for teachers to understand
while teaching their students about nutrition. While this video would be
much too advanced for 2nd graders, for whom this unit is tailored to, it is
a great instructional tool for teachers to use to understand the digestive
tract in order to then teach it to their students. Teachers will be able to
show their students the journey of their food through their bodies.
7. YouTube video
“Food Groups Are Rocking Tonight” Song Video
This video can be used in the classroom to engage
students in the five food groups with a fun, interactive song
which they can sing and dance along to.
8. Internet Resources
Choose My Plate
MyPlate is a government sponsored organization which encourages healthy eating
for children (and adults). The site has a space-ship launch activity and color
coordinated pictures showing portion amounts of each food group for a given plate
of food.
School Nutrition Association
The School Nutrition Association is a national organization which works to advance
the quality of school meal programs. This site will be useful for teachers in order to
examine the school meal offerings that their schools provide.
Let’s Move!
Let’s Move! Is a campaign headed by Michelle Obama to encourage healthy eating
and physical activity among children.
Two others sites that may be useful:
Super Kids Nutrition
ZisBoomBah
Both of the above sites contain fun activities, games, and worksheets for
elementary aged students.
9. Inspiration/Kidspiration
This web was made using Inspiration. This could be used as an
introduction to what kinds of foods are in the five food groups. For
example, it could be used as a pre-assessment to see if students know
what kinds of food go in each food group. Having the visual web to
arrange their thinking and the food graphics will help to organize
students’ thoughts and activate prior knowledge.
10. Teaching Material 1
My Plate Blast Off Game
The My Plate Blast Off game
allows students to drag and drop
enough food for a day into their
“fuel tank.” If the food meets the
daily guidelines for the five good
groups according to My Plate, the
student “blasts off” into outer
space. This would be a great
launch activity as an introduction
to the nutrition unit. It would also
be interesting to do this activity at
the end of the unit to see if
students chose healthier options
than they first did!
11. Teaching Material 2
Gregory, the Terrible Eater
This story is about goat who is a “terrible eater,” since he doesn’t
eat what his parents ask his to (cardboard, shoes, magazines,
tin cans, coats, pants, etc.). Gregory asks for fruits, vegetables,
and breads, and is deemed a picky eater. This would be a great
story for a read aloud during the nutrition unit, and the teacher
could even use the YouTube video for the read aloud to
incorporate technology even more.
12. Teaching Material 3
Nutrition Word Search
This word search helps
students identify words
associated with nutrition and
a healthy lifestyle, while
getting acquainted with the
spelling of these words.
13. Teaching Material 4: There’s An App For
That!
Fooducate
Though this app is commonly used as a weight loss app,
similar to My Fitness Pal, it has a feature where you can
scan food labels and instantly see the nutritional
information. The app gives the food item a letter grade, as
well as an explanation and healthier alternatives. This app
could be used as an exploration center for students to scan
food labels, such as their snacks from home or school
snack offerings, to see the letter grade and nutritional
information given.
14. Subject Specific Website
Food Champs
Food Champs has educational games, worksheets, and coloring
sheets for students. This website was found using Science Net
Links. This website would be great for a thematic unit on
nutrition, as it incorporates nutrition throughout different content
areas, such as science and math.
15. Use of the Internet: Online Reference
Materials
Dictionary.com
Students can use dictionary.com in order to look up
nutrition specific words as a part of their vocabulary work.
Words such as fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, protein,
nutrient, or vitamin could be used. Students could look up
to the word and its definition using dictionary.com, and then
write a sentence using that word.
16. Use of the Internet: The Online Books
Page
The Online Books Page
Using this website, students and teachers can search for
books about nutrition. Students can use these books to
research nutrition facts, ways to stay active, or even story
books about healthy eating and trying new foods, just as in
Gregory, the Terrible Eater.
17. Web 2.0
Kidblog
Kidblog is a safe blog just for students! It helps connect
students in the class to each other, as well as other
classrooms that have their own blogs, too. Students can
create blog entries as a sort of food diary to journal about
the foods they ate during the day or week, and if they think
they made healthy food choices.
18. Web 2.0
Twiducate
Twiducate is a social network that is designed for schools,
sort of like a Twitter that is made for the classroom.
Students and teachers can use Twiducate in order to share
their #healthyeating or #smartfoodchoices throughout the
year!
#nutritionrocks
Image is linked to the source and video itself. Source: https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/stanford-medicine/growth-and-metabolism/v/digesting-food
Youtube Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaLvxVnn8Yg
All hyperlinks lead to their given sources.
Online version of Inspiration/Kidspiration: http://www.webspirationclassroom.com/launch.php
