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Curriculum Connections

This activity supports Alberta’s Physical Education and Wellness (PEW) curriculum for grades 4 to 6.  

  Grade 

  Organizing Idea 

  Learning Outcome 

  PEW 4  

  Healthy Eating  

Students examine nutrition and explain how it informs decision making about food.  

  PEW 5  

  Healthy Eating  

Students evaluate aspects of nutrition and examine their benefits to well-being.  

  PEW 6  

  Healthy Eating  

Students examine access to food and its effect on making decisions related to nutrition.  

 

Having students reflect through a journal entry or exit slip can help reinforce key writing outcomes, especially those connected to the Writing and Conventions and Organizing Ideas sections of the English Language Arts and Literature curriculum. 

Discussion Questions

Try these classroom discussion questions!  

  • How does eating different types of food help our body?  Note: answers can focus on personal, family, community, and cultural factors such as time, preferences, cultural food practices, access to food, and food skills.  

  

  • How could you adapt one of these meals for a friend who is vegetarian? For example, completing “meal 1” with lentils or cheese. If your friend doesn’t eat fish, you could swap out tuna in “meal 3” for egg or mashed chickpeas.   

  

  • How did you decide on foods to complete the meals? Note: You can focus on the impact of food on physical and mental wellbeing. For example, completing the meal with foods you like to eat, can support both physical and mental wellbeing.  

  

  • What could you do to reduce the cost of this meal? For example, use frozen, canned, or seasonal foods to complete the meal.    

 

This curriculum connection guide was developed in collaboration with a curriculum consultant. The activities can support a wide range of learning outcomes across K–12. We invite you to adapt them based on your students’ needs – no one knows your learners better than you. 

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