Nutrition Education Resources - The Future is Agriculture
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Why is agriculture the way of nutrition education’s future? Customer choice and their definition of healthy food. The way we choose our food and beverages dictates how we educate on nutrition. As practitioners and educators, the goal is to provide evidence-based recommendations that support lifelong healthy habits. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the younger Gen Z reports environmental sustainability is top-of-mind with (33%) saying it has a “great” or “somewhat” of an impact on their decision to buy foods and beverages. This data is from the 2022 IFIC Generation Z health survey.
This means that as we speak to educators working in elementary and secondary education, we need to be tailoring our message to meet children where they are. If food choices are being made based on how food is grown or produced, let’s learn more about growing practices and link them to the science our students are learning in school. Positive experiences with food can happen in the classroom and at home.
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Discussion: Did you know most parts of a pumpkin or squash can be eaten? That’s right! Pumpkins taste great roasted, in soups, broths, pies, bread, cookies and more! Even the skin of smaller pumpkins and squash is edible when tender. Pumpkin seeds are excellent on top of salads, oatmeal, muffins and so much more.
In a world where too much food is wasted, let's give our world a break by giving a pumpkin the chance to be delicious! Most of the pumpkin can be eaten. Far too many pumpkins are wasted each year with over 1.3 billion pounds reported to be grown by the U.S. Department of Energy. Consider other ways to reduce food waste by composting your pumpkin or maybe even turning it into pumpkin soup.
Lesson Includes:
Coloring
Lifecycle Identification
Labeling the parts of the pumpkin
Discussion on food waste
The new agricultural resources are designed to meet national next-generation science and health standards.
Pumpkin Lifecycle and Parts meets the following:
Kindergarten:
PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
- Sunlight warms Earth’s surface. (K-PS3-1),(K-PS3-2)
Cause and Effect
-Events have causes that generate observable patterns. (K-PS3-1),(K-PS3-2)
First grade:
LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
-Adult plants and animals can have young. In many kinds of animals, parents and the offspring themselves engage in
Patterns in the natural world can be observed, used to describe phenomena, and used as evidence. (1-LS1-2),(1-LS3- 1) Structure a
