Healthy Food Choices, K-2

Charlotte Pendlebury and Julia Jones

Awesome Eats

Awesome Eats is a healthy-eating app that combines gardening and nutrition. This app teaches young kids about the benefits of a colorful diet of fruits and vegetables, including recycling tips at the conclusion of each “meal”. Awesome Eats allows kids to learn their fruits and vegetables in an entertaining way, and even sort and stack them in the game. This app holds over 60 progressively challenging levels, and over 70 fun characters. Students will have fun while learning all about nutrition on the side. Awesome Eats is free on iTunes, and for ages 4 and up.

 

In the classroom, Awesome Eats, can be integrated into the core curriculum of math. The app features numerous levels, characters, and focuses on counting, sorting, and memorization which are all helpful in mathematics. Kids will be given time to explore the app for about 15 minutes and they will memorize some of the fruits and vegetables that the app teaches. Once the exploration time is over, the kids will come together and name some of the fruits and vegetables they found. If the class is currently learning addition a fun activity could be to use the characters from the app and add them to the board. The teacher will need to prep beforehand and print the characters out to use as “numbers”. The kids will see the connection between the app and math and get excited to learn sorting and addition or any other math lesson that is relevant in the classroom at the time. Down below is an example of how we would integrate characters and strategies from the app into worksheets for homework or in-class work.

 Instead of the frogs, the characters can be from the App that the kids explored.

Healthy Behavior Outcomes for Healthy Eating

1. Eat the appropriate number of servings from each food group every day.
2. Eat a variety of foods within each food group every day.
3. Eat an abundance of fruits and vegetables every day.
4. Choose to eat whole grain products and fat-free or low-fat milk or equivalent milk products regularly.
5. Drink plenty of water every day.
6. Limit foods and beverages high in added sugars, solid fat, and sodium.
7. Eat breakfast every day.
8. Eat healthy snacks.
9. Eat healthy foods when dining out.

12. Follow an eating plan for healthy growth and development.

NHES 1: Core Concepts

HE1.2.1: Explain the importance of trying new foods. (HBO 1 & 2)

HE1.2.2: Explain the importance of choosing healthy foods and beverages. (HBO 1-9 & 12)

HE1.2.3: Identify a variety of healthy snacks. (HBO 2-5, 8 & 12)

HE1.2.9: Identify healthy eating patterns that provide energy and help the body grow and develop. (HBO 12)

Kindergarten Math standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1
Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.2
Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3
Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

Count to tell the number of objects.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.A
When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.B
Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.C
Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5
Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

 

1^st Grade Math Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.¹

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.2
Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.3
Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.² Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.B.4
Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.

 

2nd Grade Math Standards:

Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.¹