Janice VanCleave's Food and Nutrition for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471176656 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
JANICE VANCLEAVE is a former award-winning science teacher who now spends her time writing and giving hands-on science workshops. . She is the author of more than 40 children's science books
To the delight of children, parents, and teachers everywhere, America's favorite science teacher brings a welcome addition to the popular Science for Every Kid series. Through fun, safe, and easy-to-do experiments, Janice VanCleave teaches kids ages eight to twelve all about food and nutrition. They'll explore why different sweeteners vary in sweetness, how to use natural food dyes to dye a T-shirt, and what the food pyramid is-plus much more. Kids can learn about leavening agents by mixing baking soda with vinegar. Every project has been tested and can be performed safely and inexpensively using ordinary household materials.. How does milk help me grow? Where do vitamins come from? Do carrots really strengthen my eyesight? Find out these answers-in Janice VanCleave's Food and Nutrition for Every Kid. Each experiment is broken dow
From School Library Journal Grade 4-8-VanCleave teaches young readers about food groups, vitamins and minerals, the relationship between energy and food, how to read nutrition labels, and more. Most will need adult supervision, making this a great resource book for science teachers, but adaptable to use at home. Each of the 25 chapters starts off with background information, but the heart of this book is the array of activities that relate to real-life situations. This is a good update to Foodworks: Over 100 Science Activities and Fascinating Facts That Explore the Magic of Food from the Ontario Science Center (Addison-Wesley, 1987).Joyce Adams Bur
The Un-nutrition Guide for Children J. Hagstrom The Unnutrition Guide for Children - this book contradicts so many nutritious information that we have practiced in our family that has led us down a healthy road of good nutrition where we have no colds anymore or doctor's visits.About sugar - The kids are told to stay away from honey, and rather to consume sugar. Honey has so many health benefits, while sugar deprives the body of nutrients. While I don't eat sugar, she goes on to say that refining sugar means that you take out the impurities, when refining sugar actually takes out what little nutritious material exists in the sugar. Worse yet, she recommends fake chemical sweeteners to p. K. Alphs said Great Introduction To Food and Nutrition for Kids!. This is the second Janice Van Cleave book I have purchased for our homeschool and I LOVE it!Our family utilizes the Sonlight homeschooling curriculum but our child keeps begging for "more science" so I purchased a copy of "Food and Nutrition for Every Kid."This book is divided into twenty five chapters which cover the subject of nutrition from "Why Water is Essential to Life to How to Make Food Last." At the beginning of the book Janice has written an introduction to share with you how to utilize this book.Each chapter contains "What You Need to Know, Exercises, Activity (which is a science experiment) and Solutions to Exercises."This book. Food & Nutrition for Every Kid Sharon I sent this book to my over weight granddaughter to help her see the importance to good food decisions. I want her to like herself but understand keeping her weight under control is in good food choices. She is in another town so unfortunately I have not seen the book and am judging this by her phone call. When I did come to town, she couldn't find it. She is a good reader. "Grandma, the book looks interesting but it is really a big book and the pictures aren't as good as the cookbooks you also sent that I am enjoying much more. I guess I will read it however I am on only page 29". My thought is it will a book she can refer to if she needs