Fiber for Your Health

Fiber for Your Health

Grade Level:  Middle School

Subject:  Health/Nutrition

Duration:  45 minutes or 1 class period

DOK Level:  2

Indiana Standard:  FCS-MS 3.1  

Evaluate nutrition choices and practices in a variety of settings, using reliable guidelines and sources of information, including dietary guidelines/MyPlate and nutrients and nutritional label analysis.

Description:

Students will learn about fiber by looking at what fiber is, the different types, what it does for the body, sources of fiber, and diseases associated with an underconsumption.  

Objective: The student will understand the importance of fiber in the body, its function in the body, food sources, and diseases associated with a lack of consumption.  

Procedure:

1. Make popcorn for students to eat as you present the information.
2. Watch this video about nutrition for kids:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0ZTy2SWfk&list=PLVSA1R5zGC27f0W12OWmUJgyF5zJ3UjYd
3. Go through this presentation:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ahtjKUZp1abjrZk3tBCeW_IE6snsrASUbErGiueQJWU
4. Optional follow-up:  Have students make vegetable quesadillas with a wide choice of vegetables.  (Hint:  2 T cheese is plenty of cheese for 1 quesadilla.)