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Theme 11. Human Nutrition |
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Rationale:
The Landed Learning Project strives to provide young people with the knowledge and experiences to make informed choices about food consumption. Human health is intimately connected with the health of the Earth. Most of what is in our soil ends up in our water and our food. If our water and soil are contaminated with chemicals, it is likely that our food will be too. On the other hand, if our soil and water are rich in minerals and nutrients, so will our food. After harvesting our nutrient rich plants, they begin to lose their nutrients.
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The longer they sit before being eaten and the more they are processed, the less of the nutrients we get to absorb when we eat them. For example, we often remove the most nutritious parts of whole grains when we process and grind them into flower. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains and legumes provides our bodies with the nutrients that have been stored in the Earth, water, and plants. When our bodies have all the nutrients they need, we feel better, have more energy, can concentrate better, and get sick less. We can help children get the nutrients their bodies need to feel good by teaching them about those nutrients and how to access them and helping them to make sense of the messages they get from the media, folk wisdom, and their own bodies about what is healthy. |
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Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to:
- connect healthy soil and healthy bodies
- explain that different parts of plants provide different types of nutrients
- identify the many types of seeds we eat and the many way we process seeds to eat
- compare and contrast the nutritional value of whole foods versus processed foods
- compare and contrast commercial processing versus traditional processing of foods
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