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Gather Information about
Nutrition Mission
from a Variety of Sources

Resources
Subsidiary Questions

 

 

Tour the Food Guide Pyramid

Winning Combinations

How Much Should You Eat?

Food Group and Recipe Websites

Games, Puzzles, and Coloring Pages

 

  • Why should we choose healthy foods to eat?

 

  • What are the guidlines when choosing what foods to eat?

 

  • How much of the foods we choose should we eat?
   
Fee-based Electronic Resources Skills

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Do a keyword search in one of the BCPS/Maryland Digital Library databases
Local Print and Nonprint Resources Skills
School Library holdings
  • The Amazing Milk Book by Paulette Bourgeois, Catherine Ross and Susan Wallace

    A Book of Fruit by Barbara Hirsch Lember

    Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris

  • The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day by Loreen Leedy

Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley

A Fruit and Vegetable Man by Roni Schotter

Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert

Green Beans by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I Like Corn by Robin Pickering

One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Prints by Diana Pomeroy

The Giant Carrot by Jan Peck, Barry Root

The Mushroom Hunt by Simon Frazer

Vegetable Soup/the Fruit Bowl: The Nutritional ABC's/a Contest among the Fruit by Dianne Warren and Susan S. Jones

Meat and Proteins by Robin Nelson

Do a keyword search in the Automated Library Catalog to find nonfiction and reference books about your topic.

  • Use indexes or tables of contents in nonfiction and reference books to locate information related to your topic and questions.
  • Check the indexes of print and CD ROM encyclopedias for articles about your topic.
Baltimore County Public Library holdings
  • Do a keyword search in the BCPL Catalog to locate additional resources.
  • Going to the Public Library? Use a graphic organizer before you go (print out a graphic organizer in Word or PDF format).
  • Chat online with a real live librarian at Ask Us Now! Be sure to have your research questions handy!

 

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