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Thanksgiving Food Guide Pyramid

published on: 2/28/2003

Contributing Teacher(s): Sherri Sparks

Subject Area: Family and Consumer Sciences/Nutrition/Food Science

Grade Range: Middle Grades (6-8), High School (9-12)

Materials Needed:

• Computer with Internet access for each student
• One blank sheet of paper for each student

Objective: The student will utilize nutritional information. The student will also recognize the food guide pyramid.

Process Standards:

• Goal 1.4 use technological tools and other resources to locate, select and organize information

Content Standards:

• Communication Arts 3. Reading and evaluating nonfiction works and material (such as biographies, newspap...)

  Time Allowance: 2 full class periods

  Description: Students will utilize nutritional information and recognize the food guide pyramid.

  Comments: Best taught grades 8-9

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  Classroom Component:
  Steps Needed to Implement the Idea

  The teacher will proceed this lesson with a lecture on the importance of the food guide pyramid. Students will learn how to use it and will practice categorizing foods into the appropriate levels of the pyramid.

  Accommodations

  The interactive web site will stimulate interest and accommodate students with different learning styles.

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  Thanksgiving Food Guide Pyramid

  

  Thanksgiving is right around the corner. You will be completing a scavenger hunt to find out the real truth about that first Thanksgiving so many years ago. You will be searching the following sites to answer the questions correctly: Answer the questions on this form and submit it when you are finished. Finally, you will demonstrate that you recognize the food guide pyramid and utilize nutritional information to complete it.

  http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/

  Teaching about Thanksgiving

  A 17th-Century Harvest Feast

   

  Name:______________________________________________     Grade:_____    Hour:______
  1. The Wompanoag indians celebrated their own Thanksgiving how many times each year?    2    4    6    8
     
     
  2. Squanto was the first indian to help the pilgrims. His real name was:

     _____Wampanoag
     _____Patuxet
     _____Massasoit
     _____Tisquantum

  3. Who believed that Thanksgiving should be a national patriotic holiday, and she began her campaign for one in 1846?

     _____Sara Lee
     _____Sara McLachlin
     _____Sara Josepha Hale
     _____Sara Sparks

  4. The Pilgrims and Indians ate out of __________ the first Thanksgiving feast.

     _____Bowls
     _____Plates
     _____Trenchers
     _____Gourds

  5. Who supplied most of the food for the very first Thanksgiving dinner?

     _____The indians
     _____The pilgrims

  6. Who was the only baptized Christian among his tribe? He was also the only indian who spoke excellent English.

     _____Massasoit
     _____Squanto
     _____Samoset
     _____Algonkian

  7. The feast at the first Thanksgiving consisted of:

     ___________________________________________________________________

  8. The indians were invited to the first Thanksgiving for the purpose of:
     _____Negotiating a treaty that would secure the land that would become Plymouth Plantation.
     _____Sizing up the troops, in case of future confrontation.
     _____Developing a political party that would cover the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag indian nation.
     _____As a good will feast, and to supply food to their new friends.

  9. A generation after the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims went to war with the Indians in what was known as the

     _____The French and Indian war
     _____The Pilgrim war _____King Phillips War
     _____The Civil War

  10. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted for

      _____1 day
      _____2 days
      _____3 days
      _____4 days

  11. The indians served a candy that is almost identical to what we know today as

      _____candy corn
      _____rock candy
      _____fudge gum drops

  12. On a separate sheet of paper, graph the first Thanksgiving feast on the Food Guide Pyramid.
      How could the meal be adjusted to fit the dietary guidelines for fat and calories? What foods are familiar to what we see today?

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  Thanksgiving Food Guide Pyramid

  Answer Key

  1. 6

  2. Tisquantum

  3. Sara Josepha Hale

  4. Trenchers

  5. Indians

  6. Squanto

  7. 5 deer, wild turkey, fish, beans, squash, cornbread, berries

  8. Negotiating a treaty that would secure the land that would become Plymouth Plantation AND As a good will feast and to supply food to their new friends.

  9. King Phillips War

  10. 3 days

  11. Candy corn

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  Thanksgiving Food Guide Pyramid

  SCORING GUIDE

   

  Name:____________________________________________

  Date:___________________________

  Title of Work:________________________________________

   

  	1 Point	2 Points	3 Points	4 Points	POINTS
  Recognize the food guide pyramid and utilize nutritional information.	Student will diagram a basic food guide pyramid (1 Point)	Student will diagram and label a food guide pyramid with the appropriate food categories (7 points)	Student will utilize nutritional information and categorize the first Thanksgiving meal on the pyramid (13 points)	Student will utilize nutritional information and categorize the first Thanksgiving meal on the pyramid. They will also include appropriate serving amounts (19 points)
  Students will access the web to gather information about the first Thanksgiving meal	Students will access information from two of the three web sites (6 points)	Students will access all three web sites and answer 3 questions (12 points)	Student will access all three web sites and answer 6 questions (15 points)	Student will access all three web sites, and complete and submit the Thanksgiving quiz (17 points)
  TOTAL

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  For additional information contact :
  Sherri Sparks
  Central Jr. High
  Cape Girardeau 63
  (573) 334-2923
  EMAIL: sparkss@cape.k12.mo.us