Students play a game of Breakfast Detective to identify foods that are good for breakfast and identify a few to try at home.
Activity Outcomes
- Identify both traditional and non-traditional
foods that are good for breakfast
- Discuss the benefits of eating breakfast
- Create breakfast combinations using the foods
pictures in the “Breakfast Detective”
- Identify two or three new foods to try for
breakfast in the next two weeks
What You Need:
What You Do:
1. Open by taking a quick poll
of who ate breakfast today?
2. Ask what students ate and
what some of their favorite breakfast foods are. List on the board.
3. Make some observations about
the list. Are they mostly foods from the Five Food Groups? Are they mostly
foods that we typically think of as “breakfast foods”?
4. Add some foods not usually
associated with breakfast such as cold pizza, leftover spaghetti and meat
sauce, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the list.
5. Point out that what’s
most important is that breakfast foods come from the Five Food Groups.
- These are foods that help fuel our bodies
and brains so we can concentrate, learn and play. They help us get through
the busy morning.
- A nutritious breakfast has at least three
food groups.
6. Introduce and distribute the “Breakfast Detective” game. Working in pairs, have students cut out the 15 pictures at the right side of the page. Give students a few minutes to play the game. After they finish, have them use their food pictures to come up with a few breakfast combinations using the food pictures from the game.
7. Have a few students share
their combinations. Encourage students to try at least three new breakfast
foods used in the game. Some possible examples are:
- banana, yogurt, toast
- toast and a strawberry smoothie made with
milk
- toasted cheese sandwich and grapes
- hot cocoa and peanut butter on pancakes
