Canada’s Food Guide Digital Activity 4-6

The Study Prints in your resource kit have an image on the front and a brief description with questions on the back. To use the Canada’s Food Guide Study Prints in an online learning environment, download the slide deck below. Using the slide deck, show students the Canada’s Food Guide images and ask the following questions to generate class discussion. 

Before completing this activity, we recommend that you read the section “How to Talk about Food with Students” in the Teacher Guide. 

Whole Grain Foods 

1. What part of Canada’s Food Guide Plate do these foods belong to?  

2. Do you see a food you haven’t tried before? How do you think you might eat that food?  

3. What grains in this picture could be used as a pizza crust?  

4. Pretend you are having a celebration of foods from around the world. What whole grains would you serve? Why?  

5. Pick a food from this picture and add a food from either the Vegetables and Fruits Study Print or Protein Foods Study Print to make a snack you would enjoy. 

Protein Foods 

1. What part of Canada’s Food Guide Plate do these foods belong to?  

2. Do you see a food you haven’t tried before? How do you think you might eat that food?  

3. Which of these foods come from animals? Which of these foods are made from milk? Which of these foods come from plants?  

4. Pick one food from this image and think of three words to describe that food. Can your class guess what it is?  

5. Pick a food from this picture and add a food from either the Vegetables and Fruits Study Print or Whole Grain Foods Study Print to make a snack you would enjoy. 

Vegetables and Fruits 

1. What part of Canada’s Food Guide Plate do these foods belong to?  

2. Do you see a food you haven’t tried before? How do you think you might eat that food?  

3. Which of these foods do you like to eat cooked? Which do you prefer to eat raw?  

4. What foods do you see that grow above ground?  

5. What foods grow below ground?  

6. Pick a food from this picture and add a food from either the Whole Grain Foods Study Print or Protein Foods Study Print to make a snack you would enjoy