Materials:
Teacher:
-play money
-real or pretend food items
Student:
- grocery list (paper and pen/pencil)
-copies of the Canada Food Guide
Actvity: Role-playing at the grocery store. Students will pirepare a list of items they normally eat, then ask for and pay for these.items. Examine the grocery lists comparing them to the Canada Food Guide daily recommended values
Steps to follow:
Teacher:
-set up a mock grocery store
-distribute play money to students
-distribute Canada Food Guides
-act as storekeeper- asking students questions and respond to their inquiries
Students:
- write a grocery list
-ask where to find cetain items
- pay for the items
-using the Guide, examine your grocery list and figure out if you can meet the daily recommended values from your list
-add to the list if necessary to have a balanced diet
- students are examining their list while shopping so that everyone is on-task while the teacher is talking with one or two students at a time
-as a class, discuss the role-play experience ask them to share a shopping experience
-as a class, come up with some of the items on their lists that fit in the Canada Food Guide
-choose two volunteers to write the items on the board