Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Learning about Food and Nutrition

Our current unit in science is food and nutrition. Here is some information about what your child will be learning about. 


Concepts/Big Ideas: Influences and Choices

Essential Questions:
What influences the food choices I make?
How do my food choices influence my health?
Essential Understandings:
My choices are influenced by the media, my culture, my family, my school, and medical advances.
My choices influence my health by determining what foods I eat. If I eat good foods they will allow my body to work well, but if I eat bad foods my body may work poorly.