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Jazzy Food and Nutrition Bulletin Board Ideas

Division of Nutrition Assistance

Sail Into Good Health

Directions for Design
A sailboat is featured with five sails representing the food groups.

Suggested Materials

Illustration of boat with sail(s) or pen for drawing on a roll of art paper.
Illustrations of foods or food models.
Tape to attach pictures of food to the sails

Learning Activities

1. Sorting foods according to the Food Guide Pyramid
Compare the sailboat’s need for wind to the body’s need for a well-balanced diet to provide energy to play, work, and grow. All parts of the sails are important for the boat to sail properly. The pyramid works together as a unit, also. One sail alone or one food group by itself will not provide the proper energy to go.

Introduce the Food Guide Pyramid. Give students time to look over the pyramid and talk about it among themselves. Explain that each major food group in the pyramid is important. Together they provide the body with the nutrients it needs. The top of the pyramid is not considered a major food group, because those foods have calories and little else nutritionally. Note that the bread, cereal, rice and pasta group often is referred to as the grain group.

Ask children to work in teams. Using pictures of foods that students have either cut out of magazines, drawn, or colored, have the students sort their foods in different ways, such as alphabetically, by color, and taste. Finally, ask students to sort the foods by food group according to the food guide pyramid and attach them to the proper sail or part of the sail. Students will have to decide how to categorize combination foods, such as pizza, that contain more than one group.

2. Sorting school cafeteria menu items according to the food groups
Students can write the food items from the cafeteria menu on colorful three by five-inch index cards or sticky notes and categorize the food according to the food groups. Tally the number from each food group and see how the foods fill the pyramid. Children can invite the food service staff to give them a talk on how the pyramid is used to create balanced meals.

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