Simply Good Eating for English Language Learners

Nutrition educators now have these tools to provide a valuable learning experience for English Language Learners in nutrition, food safety, shopping, and cooking. This curriculum is also useful for a broader audience, including participants who speak English as their first language but have a low level of literacy.

Cover and front matter

Cover, spine, tabs
Title pages
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents

Introduction
- Background
- Components of the Lessons
- Tips for the Educator
- Notes for the ELL Teacher
- Review and Writing Practice: What, Why, and How
Variety
- Activity 1: Getting to Know Your Neighbor
- Activity 2: Risk Game
- Activity 3: Food as Fuel
- Activity 4: Defining Variety
- Activity 5: Variety Bingo
- Activity 6: Meal Planning
- Activity 7: Cooking
Beverages
- Activity 1: Why Should I Care about Sugar?
- Activity 2: Where Is the Sugar?
- Activity 3: Where Are the Nutrients?
- Activity 4: Cooking
Fats
- Activity 1: The Good and the Bad of Fat
- Activity 2: Choosing Healthy Fat
- Activity 3: Cooking with Less Fat
- Activity 4: Cooking
Spices
- Activity 1: What Is This Spice Called?
- Activity 2: Cooking
Snacks
- Activity 1: Everyday and Sometimes Snacks
- Activity 2: The Fat in Milk
- Activity 3: Choking Hazards
- Activity 4: Cooking
Your Growing Child
- Activity 1: What Is Everyone Saying about Breastfeeding?
- Activity 2: Ages and Stages
- Activity 3: Too Much of a Good Thing
- Activity 4: Try It! You’ll Like It!
- Activity 5: Big Food, Little Food
- Activity 6: Cooking

Fruits and Vegetables
- Activity 1: What’s in My Fruits and Vegetables?
- Activity 2: Eating for the Season
- Activity 3: Fruit and Vegetable Identification
- Activity 4: Cooking
Food Safety and Storage
- Activity 1: Container Identification
- Activity 2: Where Would You Put This Food?
- Activity 3: Safe Food from the Store
- Activity 4: Understanding Dates and Labels
- Activity 5: Cooking
Preparing Safe Food
- Activity 1: Hands and Germs
- Activity 2: From Farm to Home
- Activity 3: What Is Wrong with This Picture?
- Activity 4: A Clean Kitchen Is a Safe Kitchen
- Activity 5: Cooking
Microwave Safety
- Activity 1: How Does a Microwave Oven Work?
- Activity 2: What Can I Put in the Microwave?
- Activity 3: Cooking
Calcium
- Activity 1: Bones, Bones...
- Activity 2: Where Is the Calcium?
- Activity 3: Does Your Calcium Measure Up?
- Activity 4: Cooking
Iron
- Activity 1: Iron Quiz
- Activity 2: Where Is the Iron?
- Activity 3: Why Iron?
- Activity 4: Cooking
The Smart Shopper
- Activity 1: Where Do I Shop?
- Activity 2: Where Do I Find It?
- Activity 3: Unit Pricing
- Activity 4: Product Comparison (includes cooking activity)

Simply Good Eating for English Language Learners

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