Can a cookbook save your life?
We need food to live, but are we making the best choices when it comes to nutrition? A healthy, well-balanced diet can help people achieve optimal health and reduce the risk of illness. In this project, students will learn to make healthier choices by diving deep into the world of nutrition. Students will use their creativity to design and test healthy recipes. They will think like dieticians, using data to improve on their delicious designs. Finally, they’ll present their nutritious dishes to a live audience and create a cookbook to sell for a charitable cause.
Imagine if thousands of students just like yours, all around the country, made small changes to improve their lifestyles. It could add up to an incredible force for good!
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Cross-Curricular Content
Every Blue Apple project provides suggested content correlations to Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and C3 Framework for Social Studies. A featured mini-lesson from each content area is highlighted below along with additional lesson ideas. Not teaching these standards? No problem! Check out the Food for Thought K-8 content correlation document for additional lesson ideas.
Math
- Equivalent Fractions
Lesson 1: Explain that fractions are equivalent by using visual fraction models while sharing the number of people who die from nutrition-related diseases. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.1
- Graphing
Lesson 2: Have students construct a bar graph of the healthy foods, based on how many stickers each one received. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.2
- Multiplication
Lesson 4: Have students use the nutrition label to determine how much total fat, total sodium, and/or total sugars are in a whole bag of chips. <