Why+are+people+malnourished?

__ **//Why are people malnourished?//** __



**Purpose:** In this lesson, students will develop their own ideas about malnourishment. They will discover the nutrients necessary to sustain life.
 * Objectives: **
 * Students will determine why people are malnourished.
 * Students will differentiate between natural and synthetic vitamins.
 * Action Plan: **
 * For the first 5 minutes of class, students will come up to the board and write an answer that supports the question “Why are people malnourished?” by a //[|silent chalk talk].//
 * After students finished writing on the board, I will verbally let students know that most people think malnutrition is not having enough to eat. But for many of the world’s 1 billion hungry people, the problem is that they don’t get the proper amount of vitamins and minerals they need to sustain themselves.
 * I will then ask students to take out one of their nutrition labels and to circle with a red marker what they think are vitamins and minerals and write one of them on the board. I will then span the board in search of non-vitamins and non-minerals. Often students mistake vitamins and minerals with synthetic vitamins. If there are no synthetic vitamins on the board, I will write one down and ask students what the difference between vitamins/minerals and these synthetic compounds (i.e. Niacin, Riboflavin)?
 * I will then handout the //Natural vs. Synthetic Vitamins document// (attached below) . For 5 minutes we will have a whole class discussion by answering the following questions:
 * [[file:Natural vs. Synthetic Vitamins.docx]]
 * Why are there so many synthetic vitamins in foods?
 * Why do we need to consume these compounds as well as natural vitamins?
 * For the next activity, each student will be assigned an element from the periodic table. They will create a chart which will identify the __characteristics of that element__, the __typical food sources that contain that element__, __areas of the world that do not have these food sources__, the __deficiency conditions of people without or lack these minerals__, the __reference intake per gender and per age group__, and __ultimately why these elements are essential in our diet__.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Homework :** Students will learn and create a Glogster of their essential dietary mineral and embed it to the class webpage. Students will visit their <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Worldhungerunit wikispace for more information about Glogster. Visit my Calcium Glogster shown below.

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