Food and Nutrition for Every Kid
Item #: | 025097 |
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ISBN: | 9780471176657 |
Grades: | 3-7 |
Product Description:
The hands-on activities, thinking exercises, and humorous illustrations accompanying the interesting text in this book will draw students into the science of food and nutrition. Janice VanCleave offers 232 pages of explanations and experiments for students which easily teach about carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and vitamins; the food pyramid; food labels; maintaining a healthy body weight; digestion; taste; enzymes; acids and bases; and many other critical aspects of nutrition. Each of the 25 chapters begins with an interesting description of the nutritional component or process being studied and then offers short thinking exercises, followed by a simple, fun experiment visually depicting the attributes of the passage.