With that, I was at Kaiser Permanente’s Moanalua hospital yesterday visiting someone, when I decided before leaving to check out their ‘Sunshine Cafe’ cafeteria, where they had this FOOD RULES board up at the entrance in the hallway. If that last catch phrase sounded familiar, it’s Kaiser Permanente’s new slogan used in their latest ad campaign, which goes “May you live long and thrive”.

Yet literally there are Food Rules we should follow in order to live long and thrive. Here is the link to the most recent Food Based Dietary Guidelines around the world.Well, food does “rule”, figuratively speaking, as it’s one of my favorite subjects.

Revised Version (Spring 2015)-Food Guidelines around the World!ħth Graders! Here’s your opportunity to learn about food and dietary guidelines all around the world to help our SAS community come up with food guidelines for our own cafeteria.

Practice presentations (make tweaks, edits, additions… with the help of friends).

Prototype Time! Let the constructing begin!.

Teacher conferencing with students making sure they are writing to their specific audience Anything really:) They have to be creative with their prototype plan! Some examples: tissue paper, paper plates, tape, hot glue, boxes (got ours from our ayis (cleaning ladies)), markers, crayons, toliet paper rolls, canvases (for drawings if that’s what a group/s want to do), etc. For the prototype, you will want to have the students bring materials from home (possibly trash such as milk cartons, cans, boxes, ect) and you will also want to have other materials available for them to use. We gave our kids two 1 hour classes to work on the explanation and two 1 hour classes for the prototype.

Begin working in small groups on food rule explanation and prototype.

Hand out food rules (hand picked by us) from Michael Pollan’s book. Our goal is to have our kids present their food rules explanation along with their prototype to a group of elementary age students. Emphasize to students their target audience is elementary school children. Students will get into groups of 2 or 3 for this assignment (To choose our groups, we had our students write two people who they feel comfortable working with on a notecard and one person (if necessary) who they have a hard time working with).Įxplain assignment using rubric as a guide.

Explain FOOD RULES assignment (See rubric below).

Michael pollan 7 rules for eating