Lesson Powerful Bones. Powerful Meals
Objectives: Make wise food choices to meet daily requirements of calcium. Name a different ethnic food rich in calcium.
Keywords: Calcium-rich foods, ethnic food, nutrition facts
Games: Discovery Chain – Wizard Mat, Calcium Chain, Chopsticks, Oh My Word, Heavy Duty Words
Utah State Office of Education ObjectiveFood and Nutrition II. STANDARD 20.0118-03.
Objective 20.0118-0302. Classify common food and nutrition related health concerns.
National Standard 14.2.3 (The emphasis is on understanding the relationship of diet in the prevention, control and maintenance of these health concerns. A doctor should always be consulted regarding any of these concerns)
Discuss specific health concerns and risk factors for: anemia, colon and rectal cancer and osteoporosis.
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TIPS: To illustrate how soda is detrimental to bone health, start a week or two earlier, or have your students start an experiment on this day of class. EXPERIMENT: 1) In a container, cover a chicken bone with soda. 2) Check the bone daily. The bone will become softer and softer because calcium is loss as it is dissolved in the weak acid (soda).
Lesson Plan
1. Give Pre-test (Folders)2. Teach3. Games (pick and choose game(s) that fit your class duration)4. Give Post-test (Folders)
A. Daily Calcium Requirements
Ask: How much calcium do 9-18 year olds need every day? 1,300 mg
1. To build strong bones and teeth for life, you need 1,300 mg of calcium every day.
2. You can get calcium from dairy food, non-dairy food, and supplements.
3. Looking at Handout 1 let’s talk about what your favorite calcium-rich foods are, and which contain the highest amount of calcium.
Tips: Additional information about calcium content in food is available at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/milk/prob/other_foods.cfm and http://www.girlshealth.gov/bones/stayingstrong/calcium_where.html
4. Now let’s look at Poster 1.
Ask: Why is it important to make fat-free or low-fat choices from the milk group? Because when calories increase, calcium content decreases.
5. Some foods from the milk group, such as cheese and whole milk, are high in saturated fats and cholesterol which can cause health problems.
6. A diet high in saturated fats increases LDL (low-density lipoprotein), commonly called the “bad cholesterol”, high LDL increases the risk for heart disease.
7. Keeping blood cholesterol at a healthy level is very important. This can occur by limiting the amount of certain foods you eat.
o Choose low-fat or fat free dairy foods. . o By choosing low-fat or fat-free milk, you also automatically
reduce the fat in your diet.
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B. Adding Calcium-Rich Foods to Your Diet1. With busy schedules, many people skip meals. This can be avoided
with just a little planning. 2. Some different ways to get calcium ‘on-the-go’ include:
o Keep portable, calcium-rich foods in hand. For examples, GoGurt® (or a drinkable yogurt) string cheese, pudding, a handful of almonds, or a calcium-fortified cereal bar.
o Asian snacks such as, nori (roasted sea weed), sesame seeds candy, milk candy, dehydrated mini string cheese (stronger flavor), calcium-fortified drinks and crackers are delicious to try out.
o At gas stations and convenience stores, you can still find calcium-rich foods such as milk, cheese crackers, and calcium-fortified orange juice.
o Sardines are a great source and can be made into a sandwich.
3. When you are less busy, you can add blended spinach to make lasagna, spaghetti sauce, or tortilla. Try making a fun salad with calcium-rich vegetables like spinach, and fresh or cooked broccoli.
4. If you enjoy Native American foods, add juniper ash to the recipes.
C. What If You Do Not Like The Taste of Milk? It is okay if you don’t like the taste of milk. There are lots of other
ways to get calcium into your diet. o Enjoy flavored milk, such as chocolate, vanilla, or
strawberry. It has the same amount of calcium as plain milk. There are even flavored straws to change the flavor of plain milk spontaneously!
o Make fruit-flavored pudding or blend fresh fruits with milk. o Drink yogurt smoothies, calcium-fortified soy drinks or
calcium-fortified orange juice for breakfast or snack.o Try fruit bars and fig bars with milk. They taste great
together!
Additional Meal Planning Tools for Teachers For a list of great ideas for snacks and meals check out Milk Matters at
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/milk/can/upload/calcium_rich_ideas.pdf. Check out other ideas at Powerful Girls Have Powerful Bones at
http://www.girlshealth.gov/bones/stayingstrong/calcium_cool.html To involve parents, refer to “Tips for Parents: Teaching Children to Live
Nutrient-Rich.’” at http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/pdf/parents/Back-to-School-Tips.pdf.
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Visuals in power point form and other documents available online at http://extension.usu.edu/nic
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Source: Nutrient values from Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 17
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Where Can I Get Calcium? Handout 1Cheddar Cheese, low-fat or fat-free ½ Cup 204
Tofu with calcium sufate ½ Cup 204
Romano Cheese 1.5 oz 452 Soy Drink with added calcium 1 Cup 200-300
Yogurt, plain, fat-free 8 oz 450 Cheese Pizza 1 slice 200
Grilled Cheese Sandwich 1 sandwich 371 Broccoli, raw 1 med. stalk 180
Orange Juice with added calcium 1 Cup 350 Bok Choy, boiled 1 Cup 158
Fruit Yogurt, low-fat 1 Cup 345 Spinach, cooked from frozen ½ Cup 139
Ricotta Cheese, part skim ½ Cup 334 Frozen Yogurt ½ Cup 103
American Cheese 2 oz 312 Macaroni and Cheese 1 Cup 100
Milk 1 Cup 300
Broccoli, cooked 1 Cup 94
Edamame (cooked Soybeans) 1 Cup 298 Almonds 1 oz (22 pc) 75
Juniper Ash 1 tsp 285 Unit: milligrams of Calcium
Mozzarella Cheese 1 oz 207 Supplements: Calcium citrate is the most absorbable
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Players: 2 or more (individually or team of 3).
Materials: Game mat, foam dice, question and answer set, Mystery Moves and Treats cards.
Duration: 15-30 minutes. Modification: Use two dice if you have less time to play this game.
Goal: Be the first player or team to move forward one round and return to the starting point.
How to Play
1. Each team rolls a die. The team with the highest number starts moving first.
2. Each team assigns a member to move as a game piece by standing in the box where the team lands.
3. The first team rolls two dice. The sum represents the number of steps the team can move forward in that turn.
Your team must correctly answer a question. If you fail to answer the question, you will lose the next turn and attempt to answer a question. If you fail to answer the second time, you will go to TIMEOUT CORNER.**You must stay in the TIMEOUT CORNER until you answer two questions correctly in the same turn. After answering correctly, roll the die (dice) to move immediately.
Immediately draw a MYSTERY MOVES CARD and follow the directions.
Immediately draw a TREATS CARD and follow the directions.
Safe zone. No action is needed.
The player must give a big smile to all other players.
4. The first team to make it around once (or more depending on time) wins.
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Question SetEasy
1. What are sources of calcium?a. Dairy foodb. Nondairy foodc. Supplementsd. All of the above
2. True or false. 1 cup of skim milk contains more calcium than 1 cup of whole milk. The principle is when calories decrease calcium absorption increases.
a. True
Medium1. For youth between 9 and 18 years old, how much
calcium do they need each day?a. 1300 Milligrams
2. If you are in a hurry and you need a snack, what would you bring as a good on-the-go, calcium-rich snack?
a. GoGurt, string cheese, pudding, a handful of almonds, calcium-fortified cereal bar
3. What can you do if you don’t like the taste of milk?a. Enjoy flavored milk, make fruit-flavored
pudding or blend fresh fruits with milk, drink yogurt smoothies, calcium fortified soy beverages or orange juice for breakfast of snack, try fruit bars and fig bars with milk
4. With busy schedule, how can you include calcium-rich food ‘on-the-go’?
a. Keep portable calcium rich foods on hand such as gogurt, string chese, pudding, almonds, or fortified cereal, try Asian snacks, get a calcium rich food in a gas station or convenience store, try a sardine sandwich
5. When you are less busy, what can you do to include calcium-rich foods in your diet?
a. Answers can vary. Some from the lesson include adding blended spinach to make lasagna, spaghetti sauce or tortilla, make a fresh salad with calcium-rich vegetables, try juniper ash on foods
Difficult1. Remember what you saw in Handout 1. Name a 4-
bone calcium-rich food.a. Romano cheese, yogurt plain fat-free
2. Remember what you saw in handout 1. Name a 3-bone calcium-rich food.
a. Grilled cheese sandwich, orange juice with added calcium, fruit yogurt lowfat, ricotta cheese part skim, American cheese, milk
3. Remember what you saw in Handout 1. Name a 2-bone calcium-rich food.
a. Edamame, juniper ash, mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese low fat or fat free, tofu with calcium sulfate, soy drink with added calcium, cheese pizza
4. Remember what you saw in Handout 1. Name a 1-bone calcium-rich food.
a. Broccoli raw, bok choy boiled, spinach cooked from frozen, frozen yogurt, macaroni and cheese
5. Remember what you saw in Handout 1. Name a half-bone calcium-rich food.
a. Broccoli cooked, almonds.
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Players: 2 or more.
Materials: Discovery Chain – Calcium Chain cards
Duration: 5-10 minutes.
Goal: Create a chain of food that adds up to 1,000 mg of calcium. The first player who gets rid of all his or her cards wins.
How to Play1. All players sit in a circle. If played in teams, no players from the same team should sit
next to each other.2. One player shuffles the deck and deals out a hand of 7 cards to each player.3. Players hold their 7 cards in hands and do not reveal their cards to any player. The
remaining deck is placed face down in the center of the play area to become the draw pile. Next to it, place a pile of Vitamin D cards.
4. To start the chain, the first player lays down a card, followed by the next player in line. 5. The chain continues until it gets to 1,000 mg 25 mg. Then, the next player in line must
lay down a Vitamin D card.6. If a player lays down a Vitamin D card too soon or he/her goes over the 25 mg limit,
the penalty is to draw 2 cards from the draw pile.7. A player can lay down a Lactose Intolerance card during his/her turn. This card will cause
subsequent cards in the calcium chain to NOT contain any dairy foods. If a player does not have any suitable cards to play, he/she will draw 1 card from the draw pile and may lay down 1 card after that in the same round.
8. If a player accidentally lays down a dairy food card following a Lactose Intolerance card, then the penalty is to draw 2 cards.
9. When a player lays down a second Lactose Intolerance card placed right after the first Lactose Intolerance card, the next player in line has to draw 4 cards but may then lay down a card.
10. The Lactase card will cancel out the Lactose Intolerance card. After a player lays down a Lactase card, the calcium chain can include dairy foods again.
See card set for 3 more games!
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Players: 4-8 players, two players per team.
Materials: Miniature food models (made from eraser), 2-4 Wildcards, 4-8 pairs of chopsticks, plates or bowls, masking tape or a piece of 2’x2’ cloth.
Duration: 5-10 minutes.
Goal: Be the team who picks up the highest number of calcium-rich foods.
How to Play
1. Lay the 2’x2’ cloth on the floor, or use the masking tape to form a 2’x2’ square.
2. Place miniature food models and all Wildcards on the cloth or in the playing area.
3. Divide players in teams. Arrange players to sit in alternate teams around the square. Each player holds a pair of chopstick and a plate or bowl. Those who do not know how to use the chopsticks are allowed to use both hands to hold the chopsticks.
4. Each team competes to pick up as many calcium-rich foods as possible. Encourage your students to use their ‘wildest imagination’ to find foods high in calcium.
5. At the end, each player counts the number of food items in their own plate or bowl. Each explains why he or she considers the food rich in calcium.
6. Anyone who picks up a Wildcard needs to name a calcium-rich food that is different from all items in his or her bowl. If the answer is correct, the Wildcard is counted as an additional food item.
7. The team with the highest number of calcium-rich foods wins.
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Players: 2 teams of 5 or more players.
Materials: Keywords, 4.25” x 5.5” laminated alphabet cards and ‘blank’ cards.
Duration: 5-10 minutes.
Goal: Be the first team to spell a keyword correctly.
… Moving around …How to Play
1. Spread all alphabet cards on the floor.
2. Each team selects a leader. All players stand around the alphabet cards.
3. The judge hands over two keywords with the same number of letters to each team leader. Both teams will begin together and compete to form a chain of the alphabets that spell out the keyword.
4. The fastest team that completes the spelling correctly wins.
Keyword Examples
Dairy food Ethnic Foods Calcium-Rich Food Nutrition Facts
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Need a little weight-bearing? ...
Players: 2 players or more. Materials: Keyword cards, keyword bag, bean bags.
Duration: 5-10 minutes.
Goal: Be the first one to spell a keyword correctly without dropping any bean bags.
How to Play
1. Place one bean bag on the back of each speller’s hands. Each player will spell with their arms straight.
2. The judge will announce a keyword drawn from the ‘keyword bag’.
3. All spellers will stand in one line facing the judge. The size of each letter spelt with hand movements must not be smaller than a letter-sized paper.
4. Starting together, every speller will act out each alphabet of the keyword in right order without dropping any bean bags.
5. If any bean bag falls before a word is completely spelled out, the speller has to start over.
6. The fastest speller who spells out the whole word without dropping any bean bags wins.
TIPS: To make the game more advanced, double the number of bean bags in Round 2.
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Answer Key Time: First 5 minutes
1. What vitamin is added to milk to help with calcium absorption?a. Vitamin Ab. Vitamin Cc. Vitamin D
2. What is lactose?a. A natural sugar in milkb. A natural sugar in tofuc. A bone enzyme
3. Which snack has more calcium?a. Calcium-fortified orange juice and broccolib. Regular orange juice and pop-tart
4. If you are in a hurry and need a snack, what would be a good on-the-go, high calcium snack?a. Pop sodab. String cheesec. Regular orange juice
5. Which food has more calcium?a. Fruit snacksb. Calcium-fortified cereal bar
Score: _______ Points
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Answer Key Time: Last 5 minutes
1. Why is milk fortified with vitamin D? a. Vitamin D acts a preservativeb. To help with calcium absorptionc. Vitamin D makes milk taste and look better
2. The sugar found in milk is called a. lactoseb. fructosec. maltose
3. Which contains meal contains more calcium?a. Grilled cheese sandwich, French fries, orange juiceb. Chicken sandwich with cheese and spinach, low-fat yogurt, soy
milk, and fig bar.
4. What is not a calcium-rich food? a. peanutsb. Almondsc. pudding
5. Name a calcium-rich vegetable: _____________ Broccoli Brussels sprouts Bok Choy Spinach
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To be completed at the end of Lesson 4 if all four lessons are taught. If not, have your students complete this survey at the end of this lesson.
Name: ______________________ School: ___________________________
Date: ________ Age: ______ Gender: Boy Girl
Ethnicity: White Hispanic Asian Native American
African American Other: ____________________________
1. Things I like about this class:
Short Lesson
Games
Handouts
Treats
Something else: __________________________________
2. Things I don’t like about this class are:
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Teacher’s Name: ____________________________ Date: _____________
Age group taught: _______ years old Years of Teaching:_____
Grading Scale: A+ = Excellent, A = Very Good, B = Good, C = Average, D = Poor, F = Fail
Reading and Comprehension LevelAspects Grade Comments
Reading Level
Clear Purpose
Appropriate word usage
Appropriate sentence and paragraph structures
Overall organization
Appropriate tone
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ContentAspects Grade Comments
Accurate, credible information
Age Appropriate information
Practical information
Appropriate recipes
Design and QualityAspects Grade Comments
Appropriate use of color
Readable type size and style
Appropriate illustration
Appropriate tables, charts, and graphs
Organized, balanced layout
Which game(s) did you use to teach this lesson?
Which is the best game that you consider most effective in helping your students learn and apply?
Overall grade = ________
Additional comments:
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