Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Oregon Health Standards
- Identify the food groups in the current USDA recommended guidelines.
- Recognize the importance of variety and moderation in food selection and consumption.
- Identify how healthful eating habits can lead to wellness.
- Distinguish the impact advertising has on food choices.
Oregon Mathematics Standards
Collect and Display Data:
Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them.
- Pose questions and gather data about themselves and their surroundings.
- Sort and classify objects according to their attributes and organized data about the objects into categories.
- Represent data using concrete objects and pictographs.
CCG: Data Analysis and Predictions:
Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data.
- Answer simple questions related to data displayed in pictographs, including which result occurred the most or least often.
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Recognize and identify the food groups in the food pyramid
- Categorize healthy and unhealthy foods related to each of the food groups
- Plan a healthy diet
- See how advertising impacts our food choices in positive and negative ways
- Gather data and represent data in graphs
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