Grade Two Health - Nutrition

I chose to look at a health education site for the grade two level to find a way to get students interactive on food and health nutrition! This site caught my eye because it contains a variety of fun games for the students to use such as "grab a grape" which is almost like a jeapordy form of game; you are able to pick categories and then choose the question from that category, and no matter if you get the answer right or wrong it always lists a description of the answer so you can learn more about that topic.

I would use this web site in my classroom by first spending a few lessons on the basics of health nurition such as the food groups, healthy exercise, etc as a class. After completing this in the classroom I would then allow my students to go onto the computers and access this website and test their knowledge on what they have learned in class so far. For example, one of the activities on the web site is to be a detective and find the missing nurtient. Through a series of statements you are to fill in the blanks by choosing a letter one at a time below eventually solving the mystery of which nutrient is missing! After the students have a chance to play the fun education games on the nutrition cafe site I would then guide them to the food glossary and et them to write approximately 4-5 definitions down in their health journal for further reference. After completing this, I would quiz the students as a class on questions such as, "What type of food can you eat to make sure you get your daily supply of vitamin C?" or "What can fun activities can you do at home with your friends and family to keep active?" or simply just asking the students what they feel a healthy meal contains. If I had a class website for blogging and updating parents/guardians with information at home I would make sure to post this website for the parents to use with their children more at home as well!

By using this website within the classroom it benefits the students learning by allowing them to use a more hands on learning approach and allowing them to actually seeing pictures and words of healthy nutrition, and interact with them. What child does not love playing computer games, so why not interact educational computer games such as the nutrition cafe into your classroom allowing the students to enhance and broaden the information they already have learnt in class. I played on this website for a while and I feel that the content that it contains for a grade two level is definately going to challenge them and make them think on what the answer is. This website also benefits the childs learning because for example when they are choosing to create their meal, it actually shows the portions of the meal they should be intaking for their age and it displays all of the nutrients they are getting in that meal and calories as well.