Draw a picture of the food guide pyramid or use a food guide pyramid poster. Ask the group to identify the food groups in the pyramid. Seeds and nuts are in the meat and meat alternate group. Nuts and seeds are good sources of protein and fiber. A food is placed in a food group based on the major nutrients it supplies.
Nuts provide protein.
Sunflower seeds, sunflower-cooking oil. Diggin Dirty Science Kit-Follow the directions for planting sunflower seeds and recording the data. Use real sunflower seeds. Challenge the students to read the number on each sunflower and count out the appropriate number of seeds on each sunflower. 4 mini marshmallows 2 tablespoons peanuts 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds, shelled 6 cheese crackers 10 pretzels.