Download or read book Nutrition: Food & Healthy Eating Gr. 4-6 written by Brenda Croft and published by Rainbow Horizons Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our unit on nutrition will give students an understanding of how nutrition is an important part of our daily lives. "We Are What We Eat" will be the major theme throughout this unit. The lessons will delve into the basic food groups, the nutritional value of the foods we eat, how our bodies digest and use food, the importance of water and fiber in our diet, food labels, food preparation, food allergies, and food safety. Within each lesson there are lesson plans, notes, questions, experiments, worksheets, and other fun activities to reinforce this nutrition unit. This Life Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of reading passages, activities, crossword, word search and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.