1

Danielle Purcell
EDU – 225
Professor Clutter
April 1, 2018

Importance of Eating your Vegetables RAFT

nd
2 grade Standards:
Science: Concept 2: Life Cycles. Understand the life cycles of plants and animals. PO 3.
Compare the life cycles of various organisms.

English Language Arts: 2.L.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing,
speaking, reading, or listening.
a. Compare formal and informal uses of English.

Health: STRAND 1: Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Concepts

Concept 1: Understand Relationship between health behaviors and health. PO 1. Identify that
healthy behaviors affect personal health and overall well-being

Concept 2: Understanding multiple dimensions of health. PO 1. Recognize what the human body
is and what it means to be healthy

ISTE Standard: Knowledge Constructor: Students critically curate a variety of resources using
digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning
experiences for themselves and others.

ROLE (student) AUDIENCE FORMAT TOPIC

Row 1 A concerned Parent Other parents A cookbook cover How do your
for parents with a parents make you
catchy slogan and eat your
one recipe. vegetables? Create
a cook book cover
and one recipe that
will help parents
sneak vegetables
into their food.
Row 2 Vegetable Your friends A commercial Explain the cycle
of a vegetable
growing and what
 2

types of vitamins
are in them to
make people
strong.
Row 3 Yourself Peers PowerPoint Explain why
presentation people should eat
vegetables and
how they affect
the body.
Compare it to bad
food and what that
does to your body
and how it makes
a person feel.

Example RAFT Task Card: Science/Health

Objective:
You will be able to describe why vegetables are important as if you are talking to children.
Student Role:
A Concerned Parent
Audience:
Other parents
Format:
A cookbook cover for parents with a catchy slogan and one recipe
Topic:
How do your parents make you eat your vegetables? Create a cook book cover and one recipe
that will help parents sneak vegetables into their food.

Directions:

1. Use classroom laptops to look up ways to incorporate vegetables into recipes for children
and families.
2. Visit https://greatist.com/health/40-unexpected-ways-add-veggies-meal
3. Find examples of children friendly recipes to see what kids want to eat
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/packages/recipes-for-kids/cooking-with-
kids/recipes-kids-can-make
4. Create a cookbook cover and recipe in a Word Documents with visuals
5. Present the cookbook cover with slogan and one recipe with vegetables hidden in
 3

Resources:
Websites to visit:
40 ways to sneak veggies into any meal without sacrificing flavor
https://greatist.com/health/40-unexpected-ways-add-veggies-meal
How to get your toddler to eat more vegetables
https://www.lifewithmylittles.com/how-to-get-your-toddler-to-eat-more-vegetables/
Recipes kids can make
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/packages/recipes-for-kids/cooking-with-kids/recipes-kids-
can-make

Assessment:
Prepare a cookbook cover with a catchy slogan in a Word document and then create one original
recipe that has hidden vegetables for children. The Word document will be presented on the
smartboard so the student can explain and present their thought process.
You will receive up to 10 points for each of the following: the cookbook cover, the originality of
the recipe, visuals, and presentation.
Example RAFT Task Card: Science/Health
Objective:
You will be able to describe the life cycle of a vegetable of your choice and the benefits of the
vegetable in a commercial format.
Student Role:
Vegetable
Audience:
Your friends
Format:
Commercial
Topic:
Explain the cycle of a vegetable growing and what types of vitamins are in them to make people
strong.

Directions:

1. Visit http://www.ourveggiegarden.com/IntroPlants.html
2. Chose a vegetable to be the main vegetable for the commercial.
3. Type your script so it is easy to read.
4. Find the vegetable’s vitamins/nutritional facts.
 4

5. Practice reading your script aloud until you feel you can read it fluently and with
expression.
6. Create a Flipgid at https://info.flipgrid.com/
7. Read and record your commercial.

Resources:
Websites to visit:
Introduction to Vegetable Plants…
http://www.ourveggiegarden.com/IntroPlants.html
List of Vegetables
http://www.halfyourplate.ca/fruits-and-veggies/veggies-a-z/
Vegetable Nutrition Facts
https://www.almanac.com/content/vegetable-nutrition-facts

Assessment:
Prepare a 1-minute commercial that will be aired on your favorite kid’s channel. This
commercial should explain the nutrition facts about a specific vegetable and why it is important
to eat all vegetables.
You will receive up to 20 points for each of the following: research notes, written script for
commercial, and the video for the commercial.
Example RAFT Task Card: Science/Health
Objective:
You will be able to compare good foods (vegetables) to bad food for the body and their effects
on the body.
Student Role:
Yourself
Audience:
Peers
Format:
PowerPoint presentation
Topic:
Explain why people should eat vegetables and how they affect the body. Compare it to bad food
and what that does to your body and how it makes a person feel.

Directions:

1. Watch the video ‘How the food you eat affects your brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyQY8a-ng6g
 5

2. Do research on the class laptops to see the effects of vegetables with your body.
3. Do research on the worst foods for your body and compare them to the effects of
vegetables
4. Get in your partners and create a PowerPoint presentation
5. The presentation will show why a person should eat vegetables and how they affect the
body and the effects of bad food
6. Have visuals in the presentation
7. Present the PowerPoint to the class

Resources:
Websites to visit:
How the food you eat affects your brains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyQY8a-ng6g
Fast Food vs Effect on the body medical course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhfOC-mYM7s
United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition service
https://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/child-nutrition-programs

Assessment:
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation in partners that will describe the differences between good
and bad foods and how they affect the body.
You will receive up to 10 points for each of the following: effects of vegetables, effects of bad
food on the body, reasons why peoples should eat vegetables, visuals, and organization of
PowerPoint

© 2014. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved