DESTINATION: FOOD CONNECTIONS

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STATION 1: WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR LUNCH?

You will need: tape, food chain links, NATURE UNLEASHED by MDC

• Watch     Food Chains and Webs    
• Choose an item from your lunch meal
• Write it on a 'ME' link
• Now trace that food back to the sun by linking each step to its source
• Circle producer, plant consumer, or animal consumer on each link
• Tape together to form a chain. Every chain must begin with the 'sun' and end with 'me' 

Examples:

STATION 2: THREE-MEAL WEATHER ESSAY

You will need: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, organizer

• Review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• You will be writing an essay about your 3 favorite meals
• Complete organizer A OR organizer B
• How can you describe the food?
• Brainstorm with your senses...How does it feel? smell? sound? taste? look?

• Write a 5-paragraph essay with an introduction, 1 paragraph for each meal, and a conclusion
• Use your descriptive adjectives or describing words
• Include some sources for your foods.  Include as much of the food chain as possible.

  EXAMPLE: The hamburger comes from a cow that eats green grass that gets light from the sun.

• Include 3-5 food groups for each meal
• Make the reader HUNGRY!
• OPTIONAL: Include a picture with your essay

1) Prewriting: Organize your thoughts for writing by completing the organizer.

2) Use your prewriting thoughts to type a rough draft.

3) Choose 1 student to peer edit your essay.

4) After you have edited your rough draft, type your final copy.

5) Print final copy, put in folder, and turn it in

• To earn an A, your essay:

STATION 3: FOOD WEBS

You will need: yarn ball, food chain cards, NATURE UNLEASHED by MDC

Read Chapter 4 in NATURE UNLEASHED.  Notice the pictures.

• Spread food chain cards out on table OR divide cards between your group
• Starting with the sun, use the yarn to connect with a producer
• Use the yarn to connect the producer with a consumer, etc
• Keep making connections with the yarn until you cannot make anymore connections
• How many producers and consumers can you can include in one web?
• Shuffle the cards and try another web.
• Can you use all the cards in one web?

EXAMPLE:

STATION 4: WHERE DOES YOUR FOOD COME FROM?

Your food probably doesn't come out of the sky like the town of Chewandswallow but where does it come from?  In these activities, you will learn about the processes of food production.  It all begins on the American farm. Click a link to begin.

STATION 5: MAKING WISE FOOD CHOICES

You will need: menu planner, food cards, pyramid poster, lunch tray

There are five basic food groups. They are Bread Group, Fruit Group,Vegetable Group, Protein Group and Dairy Group.

Print menu planner

• Explore the Food Guide Pyramid and take the quiz
• On the big food pyramid, place each food in the proper group
• On the tray, create a meal with an item from each food group
• Go to Blast Off!
• Plan 3 days of meals with all the food groups and the right amount of calories
• On the menu planner, record each food choice, serving size and calories for each serving from the game
• How many calories are in your meals?
• Is this just the right amount of calories?
• Use the meals to help you write your essay

STATION 6: WHERE YOUR FOOD DOLLAR GOES

You will need: paper plate, colored pencils, protractor

Farmers and ranchers only receive 20c of every dollar that you spend on food at home and away from home. Try this activity to reinforce that concept.

• Using a protractor and a pencil, divide the plate into 20 pie-shaped pieces (18 degrees for each 20th)
• Divide each 20th into five sections by marking each 5th on the side of the plate. Total: 100 sections
• 1c OR 1% = 1 section
• Record the information below by coloring 1 section for every 1% or 1c
• Color each cost a different color   Total = 12 colors
• Label the sections
• For example, 38 cents goes for farm labor.  Color a triangle on the plate using 38 sections to show 38 cents or 38%