 How does your plate stack up? At Ground Ed we believe in multi-disciplinary learning, and sometimes that takes us out of the garden and into the computer labs. This week we worked with third graders on the educational website www.nourishinteractive.com/kids. Students played a game trying to construct breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner plates that meet the USDA My Plate guidelines for their age and activity level. Kids dragged and dropped a variety food until they felt they’d made a healthy day of meals. When they checked their work, many found that they had loaded up their digital plates with 4,000 calories – more than three times the daily guideline. So we challenged them to reduce their portion size (and maybe re-evaluate that can of soda) until their daily plates were more kid-friendly. It was a fun and challenging way to reinforce our previous lesson on healthy eating.
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