Activity 1 - Meet the Royal Food Family
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 35-40 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connection: Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students learn that they need Five Food Group foods and physical activity to grow up healthy. As they listen to a story about how the Royal Food Family helps a sick little dragon learn about the Five Food Groups, they provide sound effects and pantomime. A group activity to helps them remember the food group names, and the class begins building a Food Group Wall Dragon.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Name the Five Food Groups
• Listen in order to respond appropriately through movements
• Use information in text to make predictions
• Identify and compare characters in a story

Activity 2 - Sir Milkford and Lady Holly's Milk Group
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 45-60 minutes

Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Quintricious™, Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students identify Milk Group foods that help keep their bones and teeth strong and healthy and participate in hands-on experiences to understand why they need strong bones and teeth. After listening to The Magnificent Milk Group story, they assemble and read a mini-book, Thank Goodness for Cows. Students each complete a Milk Group food dragon scale for the Food Group Wall Dragon.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify foods that belong to the Milk Group
• Identify the health benefits of foods in the Milk Group
• Listen in order to respond appropriately through movements
• Complete a task for which two or more steps are given orally
• Read fictional material for a specific purpose
• Explain the function of bones and teeth
• Understand how milk is produced on a farm

Activity 3 - King Henry's Meat Group
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: Estimated Time: 40-45 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Quintricious™, Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students learn the names of foods in the Meat Group and that Meat Group foods, along with physical activity, are important for building strong muscles. After hearing the The Mighty Muscle Meat Group story, students complete a worksheet and take turns pantomiming ways they use muscles. The y continue building the Food Group Wall Dragon by adding a scale to the Meat Group circle.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify foods that belong to the Meat Group
• Identify the health benefit of foods in the Meat Group
• Listen in order to respond appropriately through movements
• Classify foods into plant or animal sources

Activity 4 - Princess Peapod's Vegetable Group
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: Estimated Time: 55-60 Minutes

Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Quintricious!™ and Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students learn about the Vegetable Group and identify foods needed for good night vision. After listening to The Visit to the Vegetable Patch, students re-read the story, identifying adjectives. They experience the importance of night vision with a word hunt in the dark, and finally, add Vegetable Group scales to the Food Group Wall Dragon.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify foods that belong to the Vegetable Group
• Identify the health benefit of foods in the Vegetable Group
• Listen in order to respond appropriately through movements
• Identify adjectives

Activity 5 - Queen Anna Banana's Fruit Group
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 25-35 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Quintricious!™ and Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students learn about the Fruit Group and foods they need to help their bodies heal cuts and bruises. Using rhyme, Queen Anna Banana reviews the Milk, Meat and Vegetable Groups, and then students correct a mixed-up Fruit Group worksheet . After a simple demonstration about healthy skin, students write short Fruit Group poems, and finally, students add Fruit Group scales to the Food Group Wall Dragon.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify foods that belong to the Fruit Group
• Identify the health benefit of foods in the Fruit Group
• Use appropriate pre-writing strategies to generate and organize ideas with teacher assistance
• Experiment with different forms of writing, including poetry

Activity 6 - Prince Waffle's Grain Group
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 35-45 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Little D's Picnic Adventure!™, Little D's Tasty Tunes™, Quintricious!™
Activity Synopsis: Students learn about the Grain Group and identify the foods they need to eat for energy. They listen to a short story about Little D and Prince Waffle, complete a worksheet , and do some physical activity to learn why energy is important for students their age. Next, they develop Grain Group food riddles, and finally, add Grain Group scales to the Food Group Wall Dragon.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify foods in the Grain Group
• Identify the health benefit of foods in the Grain Group
• Use appropriate pre-writing strategies to generate and organize ideas with teacher assistance Experiment with different forms of writing, including riddles
• Solve simple problems using money

Activity 7 - We Need All Five!
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 30 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Get Me to the Banquet on Time!™, Little D's Picnic Adventure!™, Quintricious!™, and Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students review the health benefits and foods in the Five Food Groups and participate in a hands-on experience to understand why they need foods from all Five Food Groups each day. Then they supply nouns, adjectives, verbs, and nutrition information to help write a mystery story set in the Kingdom of the Pyramid Palace.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Explain that they need to eat foods from all Five Food Groups to stay healthy
• Listen in order to respond appropriately through movements
• Demonstrate knowledge of nouns, adjectives and verbs

Activity 8 - The Dragon's Tail
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 25 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Get Me to the Banquet on Time!™, Little D's Picnic Adventure!™, Quintricious!™, and Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students recall the The Royal Food Family to the Rescue story (Activity 1) to learn about foods in the "Others" category. They read a story called "Others" Come Last and learn that "Others" do not help the body stay healthy and grow the way Five Food Group foods do. Using a cause-and-effect exercise, students review the importance of eating from all Five Food Groups each day. Finally, a tail for the "Others" category is added to the Food Group Wall Dragon.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify foods in the "Others" category
• Review the health benefits of the Five Food Groups
• Make predictions before reading and relate to personal experience
• Use information in text to explore cause and effect

Activity 9 - Smart Snacking Dragon
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 35 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Get Me to the Banquet on Time!™, Little D's Picnic Adventure!™, Quintricious!™, and Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: Students learn how to identify a "Smart Snack" and that a snack is actually a small meal. As a large group and then working independently, students help Little D solve snack problems.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Describe a "Smart Snack"
• Discuss prior knowledge and relate it to text before reading

Activity 10 - Healthfully Ever After
Grade Level: 2nd Grade/Primary Elementary
Rating:
Estimated Time: 35-45 minutes
Interactive Nutrition Game Connections: Get Me to the Banquet on Time!™, Little D's Picnic Adventure!™, Quintricious!™, and Little D's Tasty Tunes™
Activity Synopsis: In this final activity, students practice meal planning and recall what Little D was like at the beginning of the unit. They listen to Healthfully Ever After, a story that starts and stops, inviting students to solve three nutrition challenges. At the end of the story, King Henry the Egg changes Little D's name to reflect his nutrition accomplishments.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Plan a "Smart Snack"
• Plan a meal using all Five Food Groups
• Identify/compare character's attributes across stories
• Listen in order to respond appropriately through movements