Upper Elementary

Teach Nutrition and History
The book, George Washington's Breakfast, provides a great opportunity to follow up your Pyramid Explorations™ unit with a discussion about nutritious breakfasts and tie it to social studies lesson," says Amanda Higgins, learning specialist from the Rolling Hills Elementary School in Denver, Colorado.

Materials and Advance Prep
1. George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz - 1 copy to read-aloud

What To Do
1. Read the book aloud and follow it up with a discussion about what George Washington Ate for Breakfast.

2. Compare and decide which food groups and nutrients he was missing. Discuss possible reasons he didn't have milk or fruit with his breakfast and how the foods available today make it easier to eat a nutritious breakfast.

3. Have students follow up by interviewing an older adult to learn what they ate for breakfast in the fourth-grade. Have them compare their findings to what fourth-graders eat today. How are they alike and different? How do they compare to the Five Food Group foods?

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