Nutritional Minerals

Created Feb. 7, 2024 by Joy Cedarquist


Nutritional Minerals

Grade Level:  Middle School

Subject:  Health/Nutrition

Duration:  75 minutes or 1 ½ class periods

Indiana Standard:  FCS-MS 3.1  

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

Description:

Students will learn about nutritional minerals by looking at what they do for the body, foods they are found in, and diseases associated with over- or underconsumption.  

Objective: The student will understand the importance of minerals in the body, their function in the body, food sources, and deficiencies associated to a lack or excess of a particular mineral.  Then students will use this information and information previously presented on vitamins to create and present a 60 second commercial/public service announcement to their classmates.

Procedure:

Watch this video to introduce students to minerals.

Go through this Google Slides presentation to cover the minerals content more in depth.  

The last slide has the requirements of the commercial/public service announcement.  Give students 30-45 minutes to work on their product.

Have students present their work.

Resources/Materials:

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9wBF60-Wj8

Presentation - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KyCGmlJwEb9RnqoBlR0XlYI9qrPmMJ2C5mWem3nE4xQ

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