What better way to reinforce an
important reading skill by using one of kids’ favorite lunchtime
substances? In addition, students will also be learning about
proper nutrition.
Objectives
Students will learn about peanut butter by identifying the
difference between fact and opinion.
Ask students to think of their favorite lunchtime sandwich and
write some of their examples on the board.
Tell students that they will be learning about a lunchtime
favorite, peanut butter.
Next try to e licit the definitions of fact and opinion from
students. As a class, come up with several different examples. For
instance: She has brown hair. (fact) She has beautiful hair.
(opinion)
When students
are done they will be going to Skippy Peanut Butter’s
site to read about more facts and to play a game at their
kids site http://peanutbutter.com. Another site to check
out is http://peanutbutterlovers.com/index.html-which
has information on how peanut butter is made, information
about peanut butter allergies, and more.
You can give your students a mini Reeses Peanut butter Cup for
every correct answer or make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in
class.
Evaluation
Have students create their own
fact and opinion worksheets from the information they learn at the
two websites. It is helpful to give students some guidelines for
instance- their worksheets must have at least 10 facts and
opinions.
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