Activity 1 - Arianna Bones and the Case of the Missing Food Groups
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 40 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Arianna's Quintricious™
Activity Synopsis: The unit opens with a review of the Five Food Groups. Students read a mystery story that reviews the food groups and introduces two fourth-grade characters, Arianna Bones and her sidekick, Marcus Muscleman. After discussing the story, students scan it again to find examples of homophones and wordplays. Each student begins a Nutrition Journal.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify the Five Food Groups
• Identify foods in each of the Five Food Groups
• Read text, determine the main idea and identify relevant supporting details and facts
• Identify and use knowledge of homophones to expand vocabulary and understand text
• Write responses to literary selections, using supporting details
• Write to discover, record and reflect on ideas

Activity 2 - Arianna Bones and the "Great-Mysteries-of-Nutrition" Pavilion
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 45 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Arianna's Quintricious™
Activity Synopsis: Students study the health benefit and nutrient associated with each food group. After discussing how the Five Food Groups are organized, they read Activity 2 - Arianna Bones and the "Great-Mysteries-of-Nutrition" Pavilion and discuss the importance of each health benefit to students their age. They complete a map summarizing the key information in the story and make another Nutrition Journal entry.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify a health benefit for each of the Five Food Groups
• Discuss the importance each health benefits for a healthy lifestyle
• Identify the nutrient associated with each of the Five Food Groups
• Read text, determine main idea and identify relevant supporting details and facts
• Improve comprehension by making connections between text and self
• Communicate acquired information in a non-print format, such as a map, diagram or illustration
• Write to express and reflect on ideas

Activity 3 - Arianna in Antarctica
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 50 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Arianna's Quintricious™
Activity Synopsis: After reviewing the health benefits and key nutrients of the Five Food Groups with a game, students read and interpret nutrient bar charts to better understand that food groups are nutrient-based and to learn more about the "Others" category. In small groups, they solve nutrient case studies involving scientists in Antarctica and respond to several writing prompts in their Nutrition Journals.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify a key nutrient for each of the Five Food Groups
• Explain how foods in the "Others" category differ from Five Food Group foods
• Use information from simple tables, maps and charts to increase comprehension
• Demonstrate an accurate understanding of information in a text by focusing on the key ideas explained explicitly or implicitly and making connections between this text and another text
• Write a fully-developed paragraph using proper form
• Write to express and record ideas

Activity 4 - Marcus's Big City Adventure
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 40 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Arianna's Quintricious™
Activity Synopsis: Students read about Marcus's and Arianna's travels from Munchberg to the Big City to collect multicultural foods comprising the Five Food Group's recommended servings for one day. They also learn that the recommended serving numbers are guidelines to help them get the nutrients they need for growth, feeling good and performing at their best, and they practice classifying foods.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Name the recommended number of servings from each of the Five Food Groups
• Classify foods into the Five Food Groups
• Use a combination of word analysis and vocabulary strategies to identify words
• Demonstrate comprehension by applying information obtained from age-appropriate fiction to simple tables and charts
• Write to express and record personal ideas

Activity 5 - Arianna Travels the Orient Express
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 55 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Arianna's Quintricious™ and Nutrition Mixer™
Activity Synopsis: After sequencing parts of a friendly letter, students use the letter's information to create a chart of Arianna's food choices and graph the servings she ate from each food group. They assess her diet and make suggestions to ensure she eats the recommended servings from each food group. In a cooperative activity, students create a day's worth of meals and snacks for Arianna that provide the recommended servings from each of the Five Food Groups.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Name the recommended number of servings from each of the Five Food Groups
• Assess food choices in terms of the Five Food Groups
• Organize ideas by drawing upon sequencing skills
• Demonstrate comprehension by applying information obtained from age-appropriate fiction to simple tables and charts
• Write to express, discover, record, develop, reflect on ideas, and to problem solve

Activity 6 - Arianna and the Combination Cookbook
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 40 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Combo Kitchen™
Activity Synopsis: Throughout the activity, students hear excerpts from Arianna's journal relating the discovery of a mysterious "Combination Cookbook." After discovering what a Combination Food is, students draw one from the bottom up and learn that Combination Foods are good sources of nutrients and provide many health benefits. The class brainstorms and uses a Combination Foods list to identify four recipes in the cookbook.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Explain and identify Combination Foods
• Review health benefits for each of the Five Food Groups
• Review key nutrients for each of the Five Food Groups
• Use synonyms to define words
• Develop hypotheses based upon prior knowledge and information from text
• Write to express, discover, record, develop, reflect on ideas, and to problem solve

Activity 7 - The Riddle of the Playground Cave
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 40 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Combo Kitchen™, Nutrition Mixer™, Quintricious!™
Activity Synopsis: Students review Combination Foods and their health benefits by reading an Arianna and Marcus adventure. After analyzing the story plot, students work in small groups to solve the riddle. In a pre-writing brainstorm, students generate ideas for completing the adventure and individually write a story ending from either Arianna's or Marcus's point of view.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Review recommended number of servings for each of the Five Food Groups
• Demonstrate that Combination Foods can help meet the daily recommended number of servings from each of the Five Food Groups
• Understand the elements of plot by retelling the story
• Write creatively for a specified purpose and audience

Activity 8 - Adventures Remembered
Grade Level: 4th Grade/Upper Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 60 minutes
(For instructional periods less than 60 minutes, this activity can be divided into two sessions, with Steps 1-5 in the first session and Steps 6-11 in the second session.)
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Combo Kitchen™, Nutrition Mixer™, Quintricious!™
Activity Synopsis: Students collaborate in small groups to create a classroom scrapbook as they review the unit's nutrition concepts. Each group makes a scrapbook page including a journal entry, an illustration and a headline. They share and bind the pages into a class book.
Activity and Cross-Curricular Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Review the Five Food Groups
• Review the health benefit and key nutrient for each of the Five Food Groups
• Review the recommended number of servings for each of the Five Food Groups
• Review Combination Foods
• Write creatively for a specified purpose and audience
• Communicate acquired information in a nonprint format such as a map, diagram or illustration
• Write to express, discuss and reflect on ideas