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| Ready-Set-Tech: Nutty About Peanut Butter |
Marion Peluso, P.S. 101,
Brooklyn, New York
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| Grade Level |
3 - 5 |
| Subject |
Health, English Language Arts |
| Background |
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. |
| Materials |
Internet access, Nutty
About Peanut Butter Worksheet. |
| Procedure |
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Ask students to think of their favorite lunchtime sandwich and
write some of their examples on the board.
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Tell students that they will be learning about a lunchtime
favorite, peanut butter.
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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)
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Distribute
the Nutty
About Peanut Butter worksheet.
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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://www.peanutbutter.com. Another site to check
out is http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/index.html-which
has information on how peanut butter is made, information
about peanut butter allergies, and more.
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You can give your students a mini Reeses Peanut butter Cup for
every correct answer or make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in
class.
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| 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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