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4th Grade Nutrition Lesson

Assemble groups of three students for the project and suggest roles of researcher, documenter, and calculator but allow for flexibility in roles. Each group must complete the steps in the directions and each student must write a persuasive paragraph about their meal.

Ask students to locate the Inspiration template Nutritional or Not in the appropriate Hand-Out folder and copy it to a user’s network folder. The groups of students will each select a typical meal of their choice from one of several restaurants linked on the Inspiration template. Once chosen, students will determine each menu item’s values of calories, protein, fat, sodium, and carbohydrates. Have the students add the values to determine the meal’s totals and compare it to the US Recommended Daily Intake for the same substances. Since the USRDI is a daily allowance, students should compare their meal to roughly one-third of that recommendation.

Students will then decide if the chosen meal is “Nutritional or Not” and each student will write a paragraph to persuade the reader of the meal’s value or lack thereof.