{"id":9906,"date":"2016-10-31T08:01:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2016-10-28T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:03:26","slug":"lesson-plan-veggie-health-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/31\/lesson-plan-veggie-health-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Plan: Veggie Health for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"old-school-sign\"<\/p>\n

By Alicia H\u00fcckmann and Heather Francis, VRG interns<\/p>\n

Teachers and other presenters who would like to promote a healthier lifestyle for their children can use this outline to plan a lesson about vegetarianism\/veganism. It is suited for younger children in elementary school and middle school but can be adapted for high schools as well. <\/p>\n

Motivation (5-10 minutes)<\/p>\n

The pupils talk about their personal experiences in regard to meat-free diets and get to know the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan.<\/p>\n

Questions to ask:
\n\u00b7 Who can explain what a vegetarian is?
\n\u00b7 What is the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan?
\n\u00b7 in order to help young children understand, you can bring vegetables, fruits, and pictures of or empty packages of animal products and ask them to label them suitable for vegans, vegetarians, both, or neither.You can show comic strips that have featured vegetarians.(Look through a few week of your weekend comics.) <\/p>\n

Discussion (20-30 minutes)
\nThe pupils learn to understand why vegetarians choose not to eat meat. At the same time, they find reasons for being a vegetarian.<\/p>\n

Question: Why do many people choose to become vegetarian?
\n\u00b7 Let them work in pairs of two to three for a few minutes first, then ask them to present their results.
\n\u00b7 If there are vegetarians\/vegans in your class, encourage them to share their motivation.
\n\u00b7 Write down key terms as soon as they come up (environment, ethics, health).
\n\u00b7 This can be a mind map (a hierarchical diagram that structuralizes and visualizes information) the children copy into their notebooks.
\n\u00b7 provide background information, facts and figures to each key term if necessary.<\/p>\n

1. Environment
\nSee http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Ethics
\nSee http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/animal_rights\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Health
\nSee http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/<\/a>
\n(Also religion, taste, animal welfare, influence of friend and family, allergies, cost, availability)<\/p>\n

Retain and Transfer (5-10 minutes)<\/p>\n

The pupils elaborate on a reason that they find especially convincing. Furthermore, they think of ways in which they as well as society as a whole can move towards responsible consumption.<\/p>\n

Questions to ask:
\n\u00b7 Which reason is the most important one in your opinion and why?
\n\u00b7 What can we change about our lifestyle to help animals, the environment and our own health?<\/p>\n

Activity (up to 1 hour)<\/p>\n

The pupils make their own healthy, vegan nice-cream. They learn that cutting out animal products and artificial sugars from a meal does not necessarily mean it is tedious, more expensive or more difficult to make.<\/p>\n

You will need:
\n\u00b7 Enough cut up frozen bananas (1-2 for each pupil)
\n\u00b7 A variety of toppings
\n\u00b7 Fruit (pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, coconut, cherries\u2026)
\n\u00b7 Peanut butter
\n\u00b7 Non-dairy vegan chocolate chips
\n\u00b7 Nuts (if no allergies)
\n\u00b7 Sprinkles
\n\u00b7 Reusable or recyclable dishes and cutlery
\n\u00b7 Blender(s) or food processor(s). A Yonanas works well. See: http:\/\/yonanas.com\/ <\/p>\n

Set everything up before the lesson starts or ask your pupils to help you if they are old enough. Show the pupils how they blend the bananas, then let them try for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Alicia H\u00fcckmann and Heather Francis, VRG interns Teachers and other presenters who would like to promote a healthier lifestyle for their children can use this outline to plan a lesson about vegetarianism\/veganism. It is suited for younger children in elementary school and middle school but can be adapted for high schools as well. Motivation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}