Food Groups
The 5 Senses
Describing our senses
Science Words
Nutrition
100
This food group includes apples, bananas, oranges, and watermelon.
What is the fruit group?
100
We use our eyes for this sense.
What is the sense of sight?
100
picture cue
What is big/ large?
100
This is a kind of graph with that shows how much or how many with rectangles. [show picture]
What is a bar graph?
100
this word means that food is good for you.
What is healthy?
200
This group includes spinach, lettuce, carrots, onions, potatoes...
What is the vegetable group?
200
We use our nose for this sense.
What is the sense of smell?
200
the taste of potato chips, pretzels, or french fries?
What is salty?
200
This word means to put into groups according to how things are similar.
What is classify?
200
This sickness happens when you eat too much salty, greasy, unhealthy food. Your arteries and veins become smaller and your heart cannot work very well.
What is heart disease?
300
This group includes meat, fish, nuts, eggs...
What is the protein group?
300
We use our ears for this sense.
What is the sense of hearing?
300
the feel of gum or glue
What is sticky?
300
This word means to look at two things to see how they are similar or different, or how one is better than the other.
What is compare?
300
This is something that we put on all food boxes or containers to show the nutritional information about the food. [show picture]
What is a food label?
400
This group includes milk, yogurt, cheese, butter...
What is dairy group?
400
We use our hands or skin for this sense.
What is the sense of touch?
400
the shape of an egg
What is oval?
400
this word means "information gathered by a scientist." It is used to make a graph.
What is data?
400
These are things that we want to limit in our diet. We need to look at food labels to see that there are fewer of these.
What are calories, fat, sodium, cholesterol?
500
This group includes pasta, bread, rice, cereal...
What is the grain group?
500
We use our tongue for this sense.
What is the sense of taste?
500
this word means to use your five senses to gather information about the world around you
What is observation?
500
This is what we do when we look at a graph so we can understand the results.
What is analyze?
500
These are the good things found in food that our bodies need to be strong and work well. We look at a food label to see larger numbers of these things.
What are vitamins, minerals, protein?
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