Give handouts of two sheets students have already seen from the information
package. Handouts are entitled:
The Importance of Nutrients
, and
Canada’s
Food Guide
suggested servings page. These pages that contains a chart of
common food items in the carbohydrate, protein and fat categories as well as
what a single serving of each nutrient is: (e.g _ cup of rice/pasta or a fist size =
single serving of carbs, 1 tablespoon of butter = single serving of fats, etc. size of
a deck of cards or 50-100 grams of meat, poultry fish = one protein serving)
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NOTE: it’s important to give alternative practical measuring devices to help
students visualize and determine serving size: eg. a fist size = single serving of
carbs, a deck of carbs = single meat, fish poultry serving,
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Handout Template of chart with columns: Food, Quantity of Food, Carbohydrate,
Protein, Fat (See Attached) to prompt memory ask students to think about what
they ate for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks yesterday as well as the
quantities they had (a cup of milk, 2 pieces of toast, a tablespoon of peanut
butter, etc) and convert these servings to carbohydrate, proteins, fats
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On handout show students that foods can be in more than one nutrient category:
e.g. milk. Ask students what nutrients they think are in these. Show them how to
write this information down in the chart e.g. 2% milk 1 cup 1 carbohydrate,
1 protein
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Students should tally up the total number of carbohydrates, fat and protein blocks
they ate.
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Note
: Teacher should float around and help students identify foods that fit into
one of the nutrient categories (or a combo of both), e