Nutrition Poster Assignment Details!

Hello Everyone!

We have been having excellent discussions about NUTRITION!

 

 

We have talked about:

  • The key food groups you need for balanced nutrition,
  • How what we eat can affect our brain health,
  • The role of fat, fiber, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in our body’s systems,
  • How to read a nutrition label to make healthy food choices, and
  • How our gut acts like a second brain and has a microbiome that is important to our overall health.

Here are some videos you can watch that we watched in class:

Now, we are helping one another do some further research. Rather than investigate ALL of the nutrients out there, each of us is taking on the research for one. We will then produce a poster to share our information with one another.

For the research, students need to take notes and to find out the following:

  • What is the nutrient?
  • Where would I find the nutrient? (In which foods?)
  • Why do we need this nutrient? Do we absolutely need this nutrient?
  • How much of this nutrient do we need?
  • What is the nutrient used for in the human body?

After finding out the answers to these questions, students will produce a mini poster. The poster will be done on blank 8.5 x 11 paper, which Ms. D will provide, and it needs to have the following:

  • A big title in the middle or at the top, which has the name of the nutrient.
  • Bubbles on the poster with key facts about the nutrient.
  • Some illustrations to help us better understand the nutrient.
  • An aesthetic presentation — coloured pictures, fine-lined words (which were done in pencil first), straight lines (use a ruler), and a nice layout (not too crowded on the page and using up the whole space.)
  • Readable information. If neatness is a concern, one option is to create the words with MS Word and then cut them out to put on the poster.

This mini poster is not meant to be a long project, just a mini research opportunity while we do a series of other experiments related to germs and microscopic stuff in our body!

Poster is due no later than Thursday, October 21st.