6th Grade Project

- Create a menu for 3 days it t must contain Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner for each day (you may not repeat any meals, food items may be repeated a min. of two times but must be prepared differently). I want you to figure out which food group or groups each item falls into and about how many servings of each group for each meal and for each day. You must have a minimum of 6-11 servings of the Grains, 3-5 servings of the Vegetable group, 3-4 servings of the Fruit group, 2-3 servings of the Meat & Beans group,   4 servings of the Milk group and record the Fats, oils & sweets group each day. Put the Calcium consumed each day into milligrams you need at least 3900milligrams for the week.

Must be typed.

Due-Due- 03/21/11  Gold

Due-Due- 03/22/11  Green

 

3-Day Menu Rubric

Objectives

Not attempting to meet the standard.

Not meeting the standard.

Meeting of the standard at a minimal level.

Meeting the standard.

Exceeding the standard.

Visual appeal

Did not turn in the assignment.

Menu is distractingly massy or very poorly designed.

The Menu is acceptably attractive and designed, though it may be messy in some places.

The Menu is attractive, neat, and well designed.

The Menu is exceptionally attractive, neat, and stimulating in design.

Calcium Intake

A total for each day and for the whole 3 days

Did not turn in the assignment.

There may be no or too few milligrams of Calcium intake which are included, do not appropriately support the theme of the assignment.

Includes a minimal number of milligrams of Calcium intake which supports the theme of the assignment.

Includes appropriate number of milligrams of Calcium intake which contribute good support to the theme of the assignment.

Includes appropriate number of milligrams of Calcium intake which contribute good support to the theme of the assignment.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner for each day

Did not turn in the assignment.

There may be no or too few meals / food items or the meals / food items which are included do not appropriately support the theme of the assignment.

Includes a minimal number of meals / food items or the meals / food items minimally support the theme of the assignment.

Includes appropriate number of meals / food items or the meals / food items contribute good support to the theme of the assignment.

Includes numerous meals / food items or the meals / food items vividly illustrate the theme of the assignment.

Place each food item into its proper food group or groups and about how many servings of each group for each meal and for each day.

Did not turn in the assignment.

No food groupings or servings were included did not appropriately support the theme of the assignment.

The food groupings or servings included minimally support the theme of the assignment or were mostly incorrect.

The food groupings or servings included, contributed good support to the theme of the assignment and were mostly correct.

The food groupings or servings included vividly illustrate the theme of the assignment and were correct.

Note: All 3-Day Menus turned in late will be deducted points for each class period you are present.

 

Cover Sheet

3-Day Menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Name:

6th Grade

Time:

Gold

 

Example Page

(Day of Week) Meals

Type your meals here.

Breakfast-

 

Snack- (optional)

 

Lunch-

 

Snack- (optional)

 

Dinner-

 

Snack- (optional)

 

 

Break it down in the chart.↓

Food Item & Drinks

# of Servings

Food group

# of Milligrams of Calcium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total # Of Servings For Day

Grains group

 

Vegetable group

 

Fruit group

 

Meat & Beans group

 

Milk group

 

Fats, oils & sweets group

 

Calcium consumed for the day

 
Calcium consumed for the week  

 

 

Note: You are allowed to simply copy and then paste this template into a Word document off of this webpage.  Remember, if you do this to delete cover page, Picture, example page, Type your meals here, and Snack- (optional) when you are not using the snack.  Remember also to modify (Day of Week) Meals, and Snack- (optional) if you choose to use snack. To add lines to the chart simply highlight the number of lines you would like to add go to table, insert rows. To delete rows.  Simply select the number of rows you would like to delete click on table, click on rows.

 

 

http://www.google.com/  A good source to get food pictures. Go to this web page click on Images and type in the name of the food you want pictures of. Remember you may be able to simply right click on a picture hit copy and be able to paste it into your Word document, but if your program does not allow this you may have to right click on the picture and save the file.  Then click into insert, picture, from file

http://www.nutritiondata.com/

http://www.familyfoodzone.com/ or http://www.nal.usda.gov:8001/py/pmap.htm-A good source to get food guide pyramid information.