Go, Slow, and Whoa Foods

Learning Objectives

Children will be able to:

• Know what Go, slow, whoa foods are.
• Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods
• Be able to identify foods they eat as Go, slow, whoa

Agenda Items                                                                                            Times  

Opening discussion question                                                                          8 min

Nutrition Education- Key messages                                                             20 min

Activity                                                                                                                30 min

Closing Discussion- (Including Behavior change)                                       3 min

Script

Open with discussion question

• Did you know there is no such thing as a “bad” food? It’s true! But it’s also true that it’s best to eat some foods more often than others.
• For example do you think it’s better to eat fresh fruit or candy bars more often? (fresh Fruit)
• Is it better to eat crunchy potato chips or crunchy carrots more often? (Carrots)

Nutrition Education Lesson

It’s OK to eat foods like candy and potato chips once in a while. But if you eat them often then you might not be as healthy as you could be.

Let’s think about three foods you can buy at a store: an apple, applesauce, and a fried apple pie. The fried apple pie is made of dough with cooked apples inside. The dough has a lot of fat, and the cooked apples have a lot sugar. The applesauce has added sugar and syrup to make it sweeter. The apple is all nature and just comes off the tree. Which do you think you should eat more often: the apple pie, the applesauce, or the apple? (Apple) right, because the apple is a lot healthier than the other choses.

Foods are divided into three groups: Go, Slow, Whoa. To decide which group a food belongs to you think about how much salt and unhealthy kinds of fat and sugar are in it.

Go foods usually contain the smallest amounts of salt and unhealthy kinds of fat and sugar. Whoa foods usually contain the largest amounts. And Slow foods are usually in between.

So for the fried apple pie, applesauce, and apple. Which is a Go food? (Apple) Which is a Whoa food? (fried apple pie) And which is a Slow food? (Applesauce).

Activity

Pick six students to come up and be a contestant. Display the Item where each student will guess how many calories in the displayed food item. The winner goes on to the game show round. Here they will have to place either a Go, Slow, or Whoa card on four different food items. If they get all 4 right, they can then go to the showcase round at the end of the game. We will do this for 4 games. Once we have 2 students win the game show round they head to the showcase game. Here they will have a meal where they will have to guess how many calories are in the entire meal if they get it right the winner gets to eat it or gets a prize.

Food List

 

Series 1:

Cheetos                     Blue Berry                             Apple Sauce                       Vitamin water

Whoa                            GO                                         Slow                                         Slow

Series 2:

Chocolate Milk             Fruit Cup w/ Granola           Fried Apple Pie     Gravy with Chicken

Slow                                    Slow                                       Whoa                               Whoa

Series 3:

 

Fried Apple Pie                    Whole Milk                   Pop Corn n Butter              String Cheese

Whoa                                        Slow                                      Go                                      Slow

Series 4:

Oat Meal                                1% Milk                      100% Juice                           Chips

Go                                        Go                                   Slow                                 Whoa

Curriculum: F2F 2^nd Lesson 5&6

Content Standard:

K-2 Reading 1.0, Math 1.17, 1.5, 2.5 Number Sense 1.0, 2.0, 3.5 Listening and Speaking 1.0, Social Science 2.2.4,

3: Reading Comprehension 2.0, Writing 1.2, Math 4.17, 4.5, 5.5 Number Sense 3.0, Science 5.e

4-6: Writing 1.0, Number Sense 1.0, 2.0, Science 1- 6.b, Nutrition 2.8, Health 1.9