Using Music to Teach Nutrition and Physical Activity

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Using Music to Teach Nutrition and Physical
Activity

• Sue Zevan

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MUSIC

• Music can be a great way to teach our students.
• Effective method.
• Not just facts and figures.

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Education

• Music can be used to teach subjects like math,
  and science
• So why not nutrition?
• Effective especially when one needs to memorize
  something.
• When music is used the concept is often more
  easily understood.

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Fun Way to Teach

• With young children singing songs adds several
  elements of involvement as many songs include the
  opportunity for movement
• Easy way to combine nutrition message and
  physical activity.

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Disparaging Messages

• Funds may not be used to convey negative
• written, visual or verbal expressions about
• any specific
• Foods
• Beverages
• Commodities
• Food Industry

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Disparaging Messages, contd.

• Includes
• Messages of belittlement or derogation of such
  items
• Suggestions that such foods are never to be
  consumed

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Songs for Teaching.com

• Artichokes and Brussels Sprouts Jackie
  CytrynbaumLet's Go Shopping! Nutrition Songs
  from Caroline and Danny Peanut Butter and Jelly
  Adapted by Jack HartmannPicnic Exploring
  Language through Song and Play The Popcorn Pop
  Gary RosenRainbow Fruit Bowl Fran Avni She
  Likes Ice Cream Tim Christenbury Start the Day
  off Right Gary Rosen The Vegetable Rock
  Nutrition Songs from Nutricise

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Food Groups Are Rockin TonightBrain Haner

• Food groups are rockin tonight.Food groups are
  rockin tonight.Everybodys feeling all
  right.Food groups are rockin tonight.
• Were gonna have some fun when breakfast
  comes.Cause the food groups are rockin
  tonight.

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Let's Go Shopping! Caroline Figiel and Danny
Jones

• Big Mac, large fry, cherry coke and apple
  pieFast food is okayJust dont do it everyday!
• So lets go shoppingLets go shoppingBaked, not
  fried-Little dressing on the sideLets go
  shopping

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The Healthy Eating Singers

• Write a song about healthy eating and physical
  activity.
• Perform it at school assemblies.
• Videotaped and audiotaped.

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Singers, contd.

• Also perform in community.
• Talk to community groups about healthy eating and
  how they have incorporated the messages in the
  song into their lives!

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Notes on Nutrition

• Nutrition and health is the theme.
• Technology has made life so comfortable that
  people are eating more and moving less.
• Five lessons.
• Uses technology to make students more aware of
  health issues.

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Jingles

• Students research nutrition and healthy eating.
• They use their knowledge of note reading and
  composing to create short jingles that promote
  healthy eating using their computer.
• Students work in groups.
• Jingles are presented in a Power Point
  presentation created by the entire class.

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Creativity

• Create new words about healthy eating using music
  from an existing song.
• Example
• Fruits Veggies-More Matters Song
• (to the tune of the ABC song).

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Physical ActivityTherese Neal

• Physical activity with nutrition message
• Limited to onetime demonstrations or events
• No ongoing exercise classes
• Provided within the context of nutrition
• Allowable supply items of nominal value to meet
  reasonable and necessary test
• Reinforcement items - 4.00 or less