1. Healthy Eating Habits A Bank of Ideas and Activities PPT prepared by Ora Freitzis

2. An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Healthy and Unhealthy Eating Habits Cut out healthy and unhealthy items from food packages or magazines and paste them under the appropriate heading. What 5 questions would you ask if you had to interview the advertisers about their products. You are doing a survey on shoppers in a supermarket: What would you ask the shoppers?survey Compare two commercials about dairy products. (Yotvata chocolate milk, Tnuva cheese). What is the difference between them and how do they sell their products?Yotvata chocolate milkTnuva cheese

3. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise (Benjamin Franklin) Prepare a report about what people in your class eat for breakfast and compare it to breakfasts in other parts of the world.breakfasts in other parts of the world. Write a letter to Hungry Jack explaining why you think their advertising is false and misleading.Hungry Jack Design a healthy menu that you think most people will enjoy using the healthy eating guide.the healthy eating guide Design a “Cafeteria of the Future” that will only sell/serve healthy food. What sort of signs and logos would it use? (Cut Down on Fat – Not on Taste!)

4. The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest and air Exercise and diet Sequence amazing facts about foods according to your own hierarchies, using the sites: – Did you know that…? Did you know that – More amazing facts about food More amazing facts Prepare PPTS, Glogters or traditional posters with proverbs and sayings about healthy life style (draw pictures to illustrate the proverbs) Find out about the origin of common foods (pizza, sandwich, MacDonalds, etc.)pizzasandwich, MacDonalds, “Convince Me!” Game: If they could talk, what would they say? Students choose items that “speak” and convince us of their benefits.

5. Examples from 6 th graders: If they could talk what would they say? We are tasty, but not healthy! Healthy food brings happy mood! Yellow Power, full of energy. I am soft and sweet. I will keep you strong and help you live long. Put us on and start to run. It’s healthy and great fun. Running, jumping, playing ball. Exercise a lot, that’s all.

6. Some useful Sites Games Mission Nutrition Game Food Flight - Game Food Flight Explore the food guide pyramid - Game Explore the food guide pyramid Health Search Kids can make a Trivia Game based on the material in this site Health Search Sites with podcasts Go, Slow and Whoa Foods - A Kid’s Guide to Eating Right Go, Slow and Whoa Foods - A Kid’s Guide to Eating Right

7. An Apple A Day A Poem by Taylor Mali