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How to implement engaging research, including skills lessons and student reference sheets.

TARGETED LEARNING STYLES
Field Dependent
Field Independent
Reflective
Analytical Understanding
TIME FRAME:



This would be an ongoing lesson topic, and teachers can choose how long they want their students to work on the individual food groups.



Grade Level/Content Area/Unit:

Pre-Kindergarten - Kindergarten /Science/Nutrition

Focus:
Enduring Understanding
or Essential Question

How does knowing the differences between healthy and unhealthy foods help us to make choices for healthy meals and snacks?

MSDE Voluntary State Curriculum:
Science Content Standards/
Core LearningGoals

Standard 1.0 - Students will demonstrate the thinking and acting inherent in the practice of science.

Topic B - Critical Thinking

Indicator 1 - Identify similarities to explore objects and materials

Objective a - Use their senses to explore objects and materials

Objective b - Recognize that objects and materials are alike in some ways and different in some ways

MSDE Voluntary State Curriculum:
Library Media Content Standards/
Core LearningGoals
Under review
National Information Literacy
Standards for Student Learning
(American Association of
School Librarians)

Standard 1 The student who is information literate accesses
information efficiently and effectively.
The student who is information literate recognizes that having good
information is central to meeting the opportunities and challenges
of day-to-day living. That student knows when to seek information
beyond his or her personal knowledge, how to frame questions that will lead to the appropriate information, and where to seek that
information. The student knows how to structure a search across a
variety of sources and formats to locate the best information to
meet a particular need.

Indicator 1. Recognizes the need for information

Indicator 5. Develops and uses successful strategies for locating
information
National Technology Education
Standards for Students
(International Society for
Technology in Education)

1. Basic operations and concepts

Students are proficient in the use of technology.

Technology research tools

Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.

 
enGauge 21st Century Skills
(North CentralRegional
Educational Laboratory)

Basic Literacy

Scientific Literacy

Information Literacy

 

Last update: July 2005
Created by: Virginia Setliff, Baltimore County Public Schools

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