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1 Educating Junior Girl Scouts on Food Labels Danielle Duvall
“Food Power” Educating Junior Girl Scouts on Food Labels Danielle Duvall

2 Audience Eight Junior Girl Scouts Aged: 10-11 Grade: 5th
School District: Sussex-Wantage Regional Learners at this age: Become stronger learners Can think logically Need to actively participate Best time to adopt healthful eating and exercise habits

3 Junior Girl Scouts Girl Scout Mission Statement: “Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.” Girl Scouts will be working towards their “Food Power” badge Girl scouts need to accomplish six activities surrounding a common theme to gain that badge, we will be doing four activities.

4 Related Literature “The new normal: What girls say about healthy living– a report from the girl scout research institute” J Am Diet Assoc. Sep 2006: “Use of food nutrition labels is associated with lower fat intake” J Am Diet Assoc. Jan 1999: 45-53 “An educational program enhances food label understanding of young adolescents” J Am Diet Assoc. June 2006:

5 Goals & Objectives Goal: Girl scouts will earn their “Food Power” badge and also gain a greater awareness of nutrition labels Objectives: Given a nutrition label, girl scouts will be able to calculate percentages of calories from fat. (cognitive) Given two different brands of the same product, girl scouts will be able to decide which the better choice is, and give three reasons why. (affective) Given nutrition labels for all the ingredients for a homemade dessert, girl scouts will be able to calculate the total amount of calories and calories from fat. (psychomotor) Given an assortment of nutrition labels, girl scouts will be able to identify food products that are good sources of a certain nutrient. (cognitive)

6 Lesson Plan Introduction Lesson on parts of a food label
“Nutrition Label Scavenger Hunt” activity “What’s the Better Choice?” activity “What’s in the yogurt parfait?” activity Preparation of yogurt parfaits

7 Parts of a Food Label Ask if anyone is familiar with them
Show where to find it on the package Go over each part of the label Serving size, Calorie, Fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Protein, Vitamins, Minerals How to calculate percentage of calories from fat

8 Nutrition Label Scavenger Hunt
Girls will work in pairs They are given a worksheet asking for good sources of certain vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients Each pair will be given empty food packages They will have to trade with other groups until they fill in their worksheet They will also have to calculate the percent calories from fat for one of their products

9 Which is the Better Choice?
Girls will work in pairs again They are given two comparable products with nutrition labels Nature Valley vs. Kashi granola bars Cheddar Triscuits vs. Cheese Nips Protein Crunch vs. Kashi Good Friends cereal Organic Raisin Bran vs. Great Grains cereal They will fill out a worksheet listing three reasons why they think one is a better choice over the other

10 What’s in the Parfait? Girls will work in two groups of four to find the total number of calories from fat (or) calories in their parfaits They will do this by using all the food labels from the ingredients we used They will combine numbers with the other group to find the percent calories from fat

11 Preparation of Yogurt Parfaits
The Junior Girl Scout handbook has a recipe for “healthy” apple cobbler, Upon examining this recipe, I felt that there were healthier recipes out there. This recipe was high in calories and saturated fat. However, finding out last minute that we had no access to a kitchen, I had to change to yogurt parfaits Danielle Duvall

12 Preparation of Yogurt Parfaits
Girls will each have a plastic cup They will layer in the cup: 1/2 cup yogurt 1 tsp chocolate chips 1 tbsp raisins or craisins 1 tbsp granola They will do this twice to create an easy, healthy snack

13 Equipment Needed Measuring Cups & Spoons Plastic Cups
Low fat vanilla yogurt Mini chocolate chips Raisins or Craisins Granola Four calculators Pencils

14 Time & Budget This lesson should take approximately an hour if all things go according to plan Budget: Yogurt (2): x 2= Mini Choc. Chips Granola Total: A little over $10

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