Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™

Activity 8 - Adventures Remembered

Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Estimated Time: 60 minutes
(For instructional periods less than 60 minutes, this activity can be divided into two sessions, with Steps 1-5 in the first session and Steps 6-11 in the second session.)
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Materials and Advance Prep

• Preview Suggested Instructional Strategy
• Duplicate Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™ mini-poster (PDF) - 1 per student
• Students' Nutrition Journals (made in Activity 1)
• Students' Folders (from Activity 1)
• Duplicate each Arianna and Marcus adventure as needed (students should already have them in their folders)
• Overhead projector and blank transparencies
• Duplicate Scrapbook Page (PDF) - 1 per group
• Construction paper - 9 sheets
• Stapler or single-hole-punch and yarn
• Optional: Art supplies such as stamps, stickers, glitter sticks, wrapping paper scraps, etc.
• Optional: Duplicate Final Letter - 1 per student
• Optional: Duplicate Smart Snacking (PDF) handout - 1 per student
• Write on blackboard or overhead transparency: "Eating from the Five Food Groups is important to me because..."
• Write the following scrapbook page directions on the board or a transparency:

  A scrapbook page includes:

  1. A journal entry (from the point of view of Arianna or Marcus) that:
     • Describes one or more exciting parts of their adventure
     • Includes an important nutrition concept; and
     • Provides three or more details about the nutrition concept
  2. A picture of a key part of the adventure featuring Arianna, Marcus or both
  3. A nutrition headline
• Make a cover titled: "Arianna's and Marcus's Nutrition Expedition." Optional: Add your room number and date.

Suggested Instructional Strategy
1. Begin this culminating activity with a short journal writing activity. Ask students to take out their Nutrition Journals. Point out:

• Arianna and Marcus came to Munchberg to learn more about how eating a nutritious diet can help a person grow, feel good and perform at his or her best.

Have students get Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™ mini-poster (PDF) out of their folders. Invite them to look at it before responding in their journals to the unfinished sentence on the board or overhead: "Eating from the Five Food Groups is important to me because..."

2. Give students a few minutes finish the sentence. Ask several students to share what they wrote. If no one mentions it, remind students that eating from the Five Food Groups each day is one important way to get healthy and stay healthy.

3. Help students prepare to make a scrapbook page with a pre-writing brainstorm organized around Arianna and Marcus's adventures.

Write each adventure on the board, one at a time. For each adventure, ask students to recall some of the story details and key nutrition content discussed. Record the information for Step 7. Students can refer to their folders to refresh their memories. The adventures include:

1. The Case of the Missing Food Groups
   Summary: When all five restaurants in Munchberg are robbed on the same day, Arianna Bones discovers that the restaurant owners borrowed their own foods to create a meal with foods from all Five Food Groups.
   Nutrition content: Five Food Groups
2. The Trip to the "Great-Mysteries-of-Nutrition" Pavilion
   Summary: Arianna and Marcus take an amusement park ride that visualizes the health benefit of, and teaches the key nutrient for, each of the Five Food Groups.
   Nutrition content: Health benefit and key nutrient for each food group
3. Arianna in Antarctica
   Summary: Arianna visits Antarctica and discovers why a number of scientists are having health problems.
   Nutrition content: Key nutrient in each food group and "Others" category
4. Marcus's Big City Adventure
   Summary: Marcus and Arianna take a trip to the Big City to purchase foods from different cultures to serve in The Five Star Bistro.
   Nutrition content: Recommended daily serving numbers from the Five Food Groups
5. Arianna Travels the Orient Express
   Summary: Arianna takes a train ride through Southeast Asia and writes back to Marcus about the food she eats.
   Nutrition content: Using the recommended daily serving numbers to assess one's diet
6. Arianna and the Combination Cookbook
   Summary: Arianna discovers her great-grandmother's cookbook, filled with unnamed recipes that don't seem to belong to any one food group.
   Nutrition content: Combination Foods, Nutrients, Health Benefits
7. The Riddle of the Playground Cave
   Summary: While Arianna and Marcus explore a cave, they discover a glowing boulder. Suddenly the wall falls and Marcus is trapped. Arianna uses her nutrition knowledge to help free Marcus.
   Nutrition content: Combination Foods and recommended daily serving numbers

4. Divide the class into seven groups. Assign each group one of Arianna and Marcus's adventures.

5. Provide each group with a Scrapbook Page, construction paper and a copy of the story connected with their adventure.

Tell students they are going to work together to create a scrapbook of Arianna's and Marcus's adventures that will help them review what they learned in this unit. Each group will make a scrapbook page for a different adventure.

Before students begin working, review what goes on the scrapbook page using the directions on the board or overhead transparency.

6. Students should begin by choosing one nutrition concept covered in their adventure and, as a group, create a "headline" for their page. Sample headlines include:

• Young Detective Solves Robbery Using Five Food Groups (for Adventure 1)
• Five Food Groups Keep You Healthy - Even on Orient Express (for Adventure 5)

7. Next, have students review the information on the board about Arianna's and Marcus's adventures and consult their adventure story. They should work together to write the journal entry and create a picture that supports the headline.

8. Optional: If you have other art supplies (such as stamps, stickers, glitter sticks, scraps of wrapping paper, etc.), explain how you want them to use these items.

9. Allow 20 to 30 minutes for students to work on their scrapbook. Ask each group to present its page.

10. Collect and place the pages in order of adventure. Add the cover and add blank construction paper for the back cover. Bind the pages and put the scrapbook in a place where students can read it independently.

11. Optional: Have students complete the salutation and sign the Final Letter. Distribute copies of the Smart Snacking handout and ask students to bring both items home.

12. Allow students to continue playing Quintricious!™ and Nutrition Mixer™ to reinforce the concepts taught earlier in the unit.

All of Arianna's games are found on NutritionExplorations.org in Kids.

Going Further
Powers of Persuasion
Students work alone or in small groups to create a print, radio or television advertisement designed to persuade someone to eat more of a particular food group. Students should include references to health benefits, nutrients and the recommended number of servings for the chosen food group.

Do the Food Twist!
For this game, you need a spinner. Assign a nutrient or health benefit to each space on the spinner. On the floor, use 8-1/2" x 11" pieces of paper or tagboard to make a grid. On each sheet, write a food group or food item (including Combination Foods) so that all Five Food Groups are represented equally. Two or three students move into the grid and another student spins the wheel and reads the nutrient or health benefit out loud. Students who are "in play" on the grid must place a hand or foot on a food or food group that provides the designated health benefit or nutrient. Invite students who are watching to decide if players are responding correctly.

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