Classroom Activities
Breakfast Excuses & Solutions
Objective:
This cooperative learning activity will introduce students to the reasons and fallacies given by classmates for not eating breakfast and provide potential solutions.
Materials Needed:
- Newsprint
- Pens/markers
- National Dairy Council Breakfast posters
- Contemplate Your Breakfast Plate black line master
Method:
- Divide students into small work groups.
- Assign cooperative learning tasks to group members.
- Each group will generate and record reasons among the group for skipping breakfast.
- Students will brainstorm and record solutions for each reason given.
- Designated group spokespersons will share their results with class.
- Distribute copies of contemplate Your Breakfast Plate and evaluate options as a class.
- If your school foodservice offers a breakfast program, encourage those who skip breakfast to join classmates for breakfast at school.