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1 A Cafeteria to Classroom Challenge The Fruit and Vegetable Marathon Challenge The Challenge Do you have the superpower in you? Make it a schoolwide, classwide or individual challenge to see who can eat the MOST fruits and vegetables in a given week, month or year! How it Works There are four different Power Food Kid superheroes – System Supercharger, Power Heart, Mighty Memory and Brave Bones. Each superhero represents a different color (red, blue, green and yellow) with corresponding fruits and vegetables that have unique health benefits. Look at a different superhero each week and try to eat their fruits and vegetables as a healthy snack. Track your progress using the bar graphs provided. Blue/Purple Green Red Orange/Yellow Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services • Adam H. Putnam, Commissioner Find new challenges at www.FreshFromFlorida.com/CafeteriatoClassroom!
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1A Cafeteria to Classroom Challenge
The Fruit and VegetableMarathon Challenge
The ChallengeDo you have the superpower in you? Make it a schoolwide, classwide or individual challenge to see who can eat the MOST fruits and vegetables in a given week, month or year!
How it Works There are four different Power Food Kid superheroes – System Supercharger, Power Heart, Mighty Memory and Brave Bones. Each superhero represents a different color (red, blue, green and yellow) with corresponding fruits and vegetables that have unique health benefits. Look at a different superhero each week and try to eat their fruits and vegetables as a healthy snack. Track your progress using the bar graphs provided.
Blue/Purple GreenRedOrange/Yellow
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services • Adam H. Putnam, Commissioner
Find new challenges at www.FreshFromFlorida.com/CafeteriatoClassroom!
2A Cafeteria to Classroom Challenge: Teacher’s Guide
The Fruit and Vegetable Marathon Challenge
TEACHER’S GUIDE
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services • Adam H. Putnam, Commissioner
This challenge is designed for students in grades 1-6. Also, consider making it a schoolwide challenge to reach all grade levels.
The activities in this challenge align to the following Florida Standards:
• MAFS.2.4.10, MAFS.3.2.3
• SC.1.N.1.2,SC.N.1.3, SC.N.1.6, SC.N.1.7
Challenge Objectives: • Promote and foster healthy eating habits. • Diversify students’ fruit and vegetable
choices. • Help students create a visual
representation of data. • Utilize what students see in the
lunchroom for educational purposes.
Challenge Components: • Use the “About” page to learn more about
the nature of the challenge. (page 1) • Use the Power Food Kids posters to learn
about common fruits and vegetables and their health benefits.
• Track how many of each (red, green, blue/purple and orange/yellow) fruits and vegetables you eat using the dynamic bar graph trackers. (Pages 3-7)
Bring it to the Classroom! Lesson Plan (Grades 2-3)Standard: MAFS.2.MD.4.10 - Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.
Objective: Students will differentiate between bar graphs and pictographs acknowledging the benefits and limitations of each. Students will transfer data from a bar graph to a pictograph and vice versa.
Materials: Chart paper, Power Food Kids bar graph sheets and posters, T-chart and graph paper.
Vocabulary: bar graph, pictograph, compare, contrast, benefits, limitations.
Teacher Will: Display examples of a pictograph and a bar graph on the front board. Using a T-chart students will make observations about each graph. As a class, discuss the characteristics, pros (benefits) and cons (limitations) of each graph.
Students Will: Use data from their fruit and vegetable marathon bar graphs to make a pictograph. The teacher should create a sample bar graph in case a student does not have their data sheet. When finished, students peer-edit each other’s work.
Closing: As a class, each student takes a turn adding their data to a classwide bar graph representing, holistically, how many fruits and vegetables the class consumed that week.
Use the Nutrislice app to help students review what is served in the lunchroom and to select meals with the necessary fruits and vegetables to assist with each challenge.
Answer for Scholar Challenge on Page 6: Planting, Growing, Harvesting, Processing/Washing, Packaging, Transporting, Purchasing, Consuming
System SuperchargerFueling up on Orange and Yellow Fruits and Veggies!
Name:
Directions: Track how many orange and yellow fruits and vegetables you eat this week. Use the bar graph below to track your data. Be sure to add any other orange and yellow fruits and veggies you tried!
THIS WEEK IS
I ATE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES THIS WEEK.
Fun Fact:Did you know that there are over 500 different types of bananas? That means if you ate a different kind of banana every day, it would take almost a year and a half to eat every one! The type we eat most often are called Cavendish bananas.
Find the Superhero! Use the System Supercharger poster to answer the question below.
Orange and yellow fruits and veggies keep these body parts healthy: ,
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Scholar Challenge SCIENCE EXPERIMENT: Does light affect how fast a banana ripens? How about temperature? First, wrap one banana in a black plastic bag and place it in a dark space. Next, place a second banana directly under a lamp. Observe after 2 days, 4 days and 1 week. What do you notice? Part 2: Place 1 fresh banana in the refrigerator and a second on the kitchen counter. Observe after 2, 4 and 7 days. Does temperature have an effect on how fast a banana ripens? Be sure to peel the bananas during your observation and EAT afterwards.
3A Cafeteria to Classroom Challenge: Marathon Challenge Weekly Tracker
Banana Orange Pineapple Carrot Yellow Bell Pepper
Corn
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Power HeartFueling up on Red Fruits and Veggies!
Directions: Track how many red fruits and vegetables you eat this week. Use the bar graph provided to track your data. Be sure to add any other red fruits and veggies you tried!
Strawberry Cherry Apple Raspberry Red BellPepper
Tomato
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Fun Fact:Did Did you know that strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside? The average strawberry has 200 seeds!
Find the Superhero! Use the Power Heart poster to answer the question below.
Red fruits and veggies keep these body parts healthy: ,
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Scholar Challenge
MATH: Use the information from your bar graph to create two new graphs – a line graph and a pictograph.
THIS WEEK IS
4A Cafeteria to Classroom Challenge: Marathon Challenge Weekly Tracker
Name:
Mighty MemoryFueling up on Blue and Purple Fruits and Veggies!
Directions: Track how many blue and purple fruits and vegetables you eat this week. Use the bar graph below to track your data. Be sure to add any other blue and purple fruits and veggies you tried!
THIS WEEK IS
Grapes Blueberries Eggplant Cabbage Blackberries Plum
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Fun Fact:Did you know that it might only take you a few minutes to finish a meal, but it takes your body around 12 hours before it has completely digested the food?
Scholar Challenge ENGLISH: Read the book “Blueberries for Sal” by Robert McCloskey. What is the setting of the story? Create a story map retelling what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the book. Using your map, retell the story to a younger brother, sister or friend.
Find the Superhero! Use the Mighty Memory poster to answer the question below.
Blue and purple fruits and veggies keep these body parts healthy: ,
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and .
Word Search
5A Cafeteria to Classroom Challenge: Marathon Challenge Weekly Tracker
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Brave BonesFueling up on Green Fruits and Veggies!
Directions: Track how many green fruits and vegetables you eat this week. Use the bar graph below to track your data. Be sure to add any other green fruits and veggies you tried!
Lettuce Broccoli Green Beans
Asparagus Apple Pear Avocado
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I ATE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES THIS WEEK.
Fun Fact:Did you know that avocados have the highest protein content of any fruit?
Scholar Challenge SOCIAL STUDIES: It takes time and energy to get the fruits and vegetables from the farm to our plates. There are many steps involved in this process. Can you put the steps in order?
Find the Superhero! Use the Brave Bones poster to answer the question below.
Green fruits and veggies keep these body parts healthy: ,
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Packaging Consuming PlantingProcessing/
Washing
Growing Transporting Harvesting Purchasing
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This year I ate fruits and vegetables!
Directions: Create your own scale to track the number of fruits and vegetables you eat each month. How many can you eat in a school year?
MARATHON CHALLENGE MONTHLY TRACKER7A Cafeteria to Classroom Challenge: Marathon Challenge Monthly Tracker
IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU EAT AT LEAST FIVE SERVINGS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES A DAY!
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