Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™

Program Objectives

Nutrition Objectives
The Activity Outcomes in this unit contribute to four broader Health and/or Nutrition Standards. The activities and educational games in which these Standards are addressed appear in parentheses following the Standard.

• Classify foods according to the Five Food Groups (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Quintricious!,™ Nutrition Mixer,™ Combo Kitchen!,™ Arianna's Food Force One™)
• Identify the key nutrients and the relationship of a balanced diet to these nutrients and health (2, 3, 6, 8, Arianna's Food Force One™)
• Describe food in a balanced diet (4, 5, 7, Nutrition Mixer,™ Arianna's Food Force One™)
• Describe food combinations in a balanced diet (6, 7, Combo Kitchen!,™ Arianna's Food Force One™)

Language Arts Connections
Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™ was designed to support and coordinate with your existing language arts programs. The Activity Outcomes include reading and writing skills appropriate for fourth-grade students. The language arts skills that are reinforced in this program (and the activities and games in which they are found) include:

Reading

• Read text, determine main idea and identify relevant supporting details and facts (1, 2)
• Identify and use knowledge of homophones to expand vocabulary and understand text (1)
• Improve comprehension by making connections between text and self (2, 4)
• Use information from simple tables, maps and charts to increase comprehension (3)
• Demonstrate an accurate understanding of information in a text by focusing on the key ideas explained explicitly or implicitly and making connections between this text and another text (3)
• Use a combination of word analysis and vocabulary strategies to identify words (4)
• Demonstrate comprehension by applying information obtained from age-appropriate fiction to simple tables and charts (4, 5)
• Organize ideas by drawing upon sequencing skills (5)
• Use synonyms to define words (6)
• Develop hypotheses based upon prior knowledge and information from text (6)
• Understand the elements of plot by retelling the story (7)
• Read and respond to a variety of text cues (Arianna's Food Force One™)

Writing

• Write responses to literary selections, using supporting details from the selection (1)
• Communicate acquired information in a nonprint format, such as a map, diagram or illustration (2, 8)
• Write a fully developed paragraph using proper form (3)
• Write creatively for a specified purpose and audience (7, 8)
• Write to express, discover, record, develop, reflect on ideas, and problem solve (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8)

Other Cross-Curricular Connections
In addition to the language arts focus of the activities, the Arianna's Interactive Nutrition Games in NutritionExplorations.org's Kids section support other curriculum areas.

Science

• Understand that different objects can be made by combining different materials (Combo Kitchen!™)
• Analyze, differentiate among and sort a variety of objects based on physical attributes (Quintricious!,™ Combo Kitchen!™)

Social Studies

• Understand that different cultures have different customs, traditions and ways of eating/living (Arianna's Food Force One™)

Music

• Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources (Nutrition Mixer™)

Fine Motor Skills

• Use eye-hand coordination to group items with similar attributes (Quintricious!™)

Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™ Interactive Games
Fun and colorful, the games also review the nutrition content and skills taught in Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™ through around-the-world adventures, coordination challenges, a high-tech laboratory simulation, and a studio-sound experience. The games are playable even if students have not yet completed the eight classroom lessons. Students who have mastered the nutrition objectives in the print program are likely to do better in the games. For students who have not yet mastered the concepts, each game is a teaching tool and an opportunity to practice what they learn in class.