Overview
*French resources included as attachments *
Did you know that March is Nutrition Month? Are you looking for a fun & creative nutrition activity to do with your class? In this activity, learn about the role of a registered dietician and the importance of maintaining a healthy diet by creating healthy recipe cards.
NB Curricular Connections
Curriculum Connection:
Personal Wellness 6-8
- Strand: Wellness – Big Idea: Healthy Lifestyle – Skill Descriptor: Examine personal health habits and their impact on the seven domains of wellness.
- Strand: Wellness – Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices – Skill Descriptor: Describe factors that influence food, substance, and screen time use/misuse.
Personal Wellness 9
- Strand: Wellness – Big Idea: Healthy Lifestyle – Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate knowledge of health habits that have a positive impact on self.
- Strand: Wellness – Big Idea: Helpful and Harmful Choices – Skill Descriptor: Apply strategies that have a positive impact on food, screen time, and substance use/misuse.
What you’ll need
- Color paper (A4 size)
- Crayons and markers
Instructions
- Begin with a small warm-up activity.
- On the whiteboard, create two columns – Healthy food vs. Unhealthy food.
- Each student takes turns going up to write one healthy food and one unhealthy food on the whiteboard.
- Discuss what is nutrition and what they think dieticians do.
- Watch the ‘Explore the field of Dietician Nutrition with Heather Godfrey’ under the ‘Speaker Series’ tab on the COE Health website.
- Briefly discuss the information presented in the video: education, career pathway, skills, roles and responsibilities.
- Recipe Card Time! Each student can choose a healthy food or treat they like and create a recipe card. Students can also ‘invent’ a new healthy alternative to the food they usually eat that might not be too healthy.
- Recipe cards can be in any format (digital or handmade) as long as they contain the following: pictures/drawings of the food, cooking instructions, ingredients, and health benefits.
- Health benefits can be derived from the individual ingredients.
- In small groups, allow students to discuss with others about their recipe card.
- This recipe can be used in which occasions?
- What’s the original recipe and point out which ingredient they replaced to make the recipe healthier?
- Why might the ingredients from the original recipe be unhealthy? What are the health benefits of this new alternative?
- Share something new they learn from this activity.
- Extension: If you’re looking for more FREE nutrition resources and activities to do with your class. Check out the Teach Nutrition page developed by Dairy Farmers of Canada Registered Dieticians.
Reflection Activity
Please see the attached PDF for several choices on how you and your learners can reflect upon today’s activity.
Global Competencies
