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Publication – 08020 (2006)
Simply Good Eating for English Language Learners
This free, downloadable curriculum helps nutrition educators provide a valuable learning experience for English Language Learners in nutrition, food safety, shopping, and cooking. This curriculum is also useful for a broader audience, including participants who speak English as their first language but have a low level of literacy.
Contents
- Covers and Miscellaneous
- Cover, spine, tabs
- Title pages
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Background (91 K PDF)
- Components of the Lessons (59 K PDF)
- Tips for the Educator
- Notes for the ELL Teacher
- Review and Writing Practice: What, Why, and How
- Variety
- Activity 1: Getting to Know Your Neighbor
- Activity 2: Risk Game
- Activity 3: Food as Fuel
- Activity 4: Defining Variety
- Activity 5: Variety Bingo
- Activity 6: Meal Planning
- Activity 7: Cooking
- Beverages
- Activity 1: Why Should I Care about Sugar?
- Activity 2: Where Is the Sugar?
- Activity 3: Where Are the Nutrients?
- Activity 4: Cooking
- Fats
- Activity 1: The Good and the Bad of Fat
- Activity 2: Choosing Healthy Fat
- Activity 3: Cooking with Less Fat
- Activity 4: Cooking
- Spices
(919 K PDF)
- Activity 1: What Is This Spice Called?
- Activity 2: Cooking
- Snacks
- Activity 1: Everyday and Sometimes Snacks
- Activity 2: The Fat in Milk
- Activity 3: Choking Hazards
- Activity 4: Cooking
- Your Growing Child
- Activity 1: What Is Everyone Saying about Breastfeeding?
- Activity 2: Ages and Stages
- Activity 3: Too Much of a Good Thing
- Activity 4: Try It! You’ll Like It!
- Activity 5: Big Food, Little Food
- Activity 6: Cooking
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Activity 1: What’s in My Fruits and Vegetables?
- Activity 2: Eating for the Season
- Activity 3: Fruit and Vegetable Identification
- Activity 4: Cooking
- Food Safety and Storage
- Activity 1: Container Identification
- Activity 2: Where Would You Put This Food?
- Activity 3: Safe Food from the Store
- Activity 4: Understanding Dates and Labels
- Activity 5: Cooking
- Preparing Safe Food
- Activity 1: Hands and Germs
- Activity 2: From Farm to Home
- Activity 3: What Is Wrong with This Picture?
- Activity 4: A Clean Kitchen Is a Safe Kitchen
- Activity 5: Cooking
- Microwave Safety
- Activity 1: How Does a Microwave Oven Work?
- Activity 2: What Can I Put in the Microwave?
- Activity 3: Cooking
- Calcium
- Activity 1: Bones, Bones...
- Activity 2: Where Is the Calcium?
- Activity 3: Does Your Calcium Measure Up?
- Activity 4: Cooking
- Iron
- Activity 1: Iron Quiz
- Activity 2: Where Is the Iron?
- Activity 3: Why Iron?
- Activity 4: Cooking
- The Smart Shopper
- Activity 1: Where Do I Shop?
- Activity 2: Where Do I Find It?
- Activity 3: Unit Pricing
- Activity 4: Product Comparison (includes cooking activity)
- Evaluation
This curriculum is available as a free download. Once you click on the "Buy" button, you will be directed to the Extension Store. Click on the red button labeled “Add to Cart” to proceed. You will then be directed to go through a full checkout process as if you’d be purchasing the item.
Once you have completed all of the required fields, the pdf will be made available for you to download.
Why are we asking for your contact information just to do a free download? We are currently in the process of reviewing this publication and need your help in evaluating it. After you have downloaded the curriculum, you will be contacted by an educator to collect some general feedback about the curriculum (your intended use, etc.). This feedback will only take a few moments of your time. Later, after you have had a chance to use the curriculum, we may ask you for additional input to continue to improve the curriculum. If you would like more information about the evaluation or this product, please contact Abby Gold.
Use the curriculum electronically or print as needed. This pdf is designed to be printed two-sided. If you print it one-sided there will be some blank pages (backsides of worksheets, etc.).
These optional documents will help you assemble the curriculum in a binder:
- Binder front cover (31 K PDF)
- Binder spine cover (29 K PDF)
More Simply Good Eating resources:
Simply Good Eating — Complete Curriculum
Simply Good Eating for Seniors Package
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