Making 'My Plate' Nutrition Charts

As part of the Dragon Gets By story in our reading books, we learned about proper nutrition. The myplate.gov website helped us learn about the proper things to eat to stay healthy. The students were divided into groups and used newspaper adds to correctly identify the section each kind of food would go into. We learned that most of our diets should be filled with vegetables and fruits. The next biggest section is grains, then dairy. The smallest section was proteins. There is no longer a sections for fats. By-the-way Dragon chose all of his food from the fats food group. Bad choice! Great story, fun activity!