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Using Technology to Reinforce Garden Learnings

11/14/2016

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PictureHow 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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