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Welcome to the human body!!

I can differentiate the «sometimes» and «always» food.

I can design a complete menu based on its nutrients.

I understand the food pyramid.

I know the process of digesting food.

I understand the importance of a good diet and a healthy lifestyle.

I know how the circulatory, respiratory and excretory systems affect on the nutrition system.

MissionTravelling through

your digestive system.

NameI am Mr FOOD.

1-Choosing the right

food3-Digestion

journey2-Healthy lifestyle

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Identifying foodTomatoes Olives Beans Croquettes Bacon Eggs

Peach Cream Candies Jam Peas Pasta Chick Peas Ketchup Syrup Blueberries

1-. Complete

2-. Write S (sometimes food) or a (always food) in the circles

WHY «SOMETIMES FOOD»?

FAT SUGARS ARTIFICIAL PROCESS

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The basicsCARBSMISSION:It´s fantastic quick energy.WHERE: Grains, pasta, flour, bread, potatoes, rice, beans, vegetables…

PROTEINSMISSION:I It helps building up muscles, tissues…WHERE: meat, fish, eggs, diary products…

GOOD FATSMISSION:I Its slow energy, it also helps the body heating up. WHERE: oils, butter, diary products, olives, nuts…

EXTRASCALCIUMGood for bones.Diary products, green leaves, salmon, sardines…

VITAMINS AND MINERALS

Very important for all the organs in the body.Natural products.

FIBERGood for digestion.Vegetables, fruits, whole grains…

REFINED SUGARS, ARTIFICIAL ELEMENTS,

STARCH, BAD FATS…

VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND

CARBS.

A balanced PERFECT menu

GOODFATS

PROTEINS.

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SUPERVISING MENUS

Regular spaguetti contains refined grainsThe solution would be WHOLE GRAIN SPAGUETTI.

Are there enough proteins in this plate?? The solution would be ADDING MORE PROTEINS (meat, fish…)

SPAGUETTIASPARRAGUS

PEAS

CHEESE

PEAS

CHEESE

SPAGUETTI

OLIVES

ASPARRAGUS

OLIVES

1-. Cross out the unhealthy menus

2-. Supervise one of them. (In a blank paper)

3-. Let´s supervise the school´s canteen menu.

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Preparing our menu1-. Now the whole class designs a balanced and healthy morning snack

for third and fourth grade. And remember…

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BALANCEDQUALITY MEAL

IT´S A SNACK!!DON´T OVERLOAD it!!

QUALITY-ECONOMY!!

Organize your money

and make it simple.

1st STEP: Check the market

catalogue.

2nd STEP:: Design a balanced and

healthy snack.

3rd STEP: Make the shopping list: shops,

ingredients (products and quantity) and euros estimation.

5th STEP: COOKING DAY!!

4th STEP: SHOPPING DAY!!

LAST STEP: We share it with 4th grade.

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Healthy and conscious lifestyles

1-. Circle what´s the healthy habit. Then write the healthy and «friendly- planet» advice.

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Mr. Food has arrived to NUTRITION land.Her first step is The Digestive system… Ready?

MOUTH

Mr. Food is attacked by Teeth and Tongue.

CHEWING ATTACK!!!But he finds a way out…

ESOPHAGUS

Mr. Food falls down into deep tube.

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!Next station is an important

organ! STOMACH

Mr. Food is attacked again.Acids and moving walls try to get the

nutrients from Mr. Food,Hey, careful, mate!!

But Mr. Food, now «Mr. Blobby Food», is pushed away…

INTESTINES, RECTUM AND ANUS

Mr. Blobby Food is now moving into a laberynth of intestines.

They are transforming him into WASTE.There comes the anus, I can see the light

WOWWW, THEY GOT RID OF ME!!

1-. Complete:Mouth

Esophagus Rectum Anus Large-intestine Small-intestine Stomach Liver

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RESPIRATORY SYSTEMTHE REST OF THE NUTRITION SYSTEMS

1-. NASAL CAVITY

2.,TRACHEA

Distributes along the body.Picks the waste from the body.

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

3-.BRONCHIAL TUBES4-. LUNGS

4-. LUNGS

Gets rid of the

1-HEART2-ARTERIES

3-. BODY

3-. LUNGS

4-. VEINS

EXCRETORY SYSTEM

The kydneys and the bladder help us getting rid

of waste.