Have you heard? The food pyramid is out and the food plate is in! Last week, the USDA unveiled a brand-new food icon called MyPlate. If you haven’t yet seen it, take a look. Personally, I love the new icon because it’s supereasy to understand. It’s also very relatable. Hey, wouldn’t it be awesome if school lunch trays got replaced with school lunch plates (designed to mimic MyPlate)?
I’d love to know what you think of the new icon and how you plan to use it in your classroom next year.
Happily,
Diane
PS I did notice there isn’t a space for dessert. What’s up with that?
I love the idea; it is exactly how I think of my meals every time I eat. It is much simpler and I think having a relatable visual makes it much more easy to understand.
How cool! Wouldn’t it be fun to print, then the kids have to look through magazines to find pictures of foods that would fit in the areas. 🙂
I love this new look – the only problem is I’ll have to get rid of my food pyramid bulletin board!! Actually this is much better for kids to understand.
I always do a magazine search but normally it’s just on a big piece of paper divided into the different sections. We can do a whole meal planning and put it on our “plate”
I love it too! Cheryl has a great idea!
I am so glad it’s changed, too. Cheryl’s idea will apply to all of our wonderful Mailbox items, as well. We can cut the old pyramid bulletin board apart and turn the sections into arrows that we can use to point to plate parts. We can paste images from activities pages to the plate. We can even use the activity pages as group reasoning activities. Wouldn’t it be great if uppergrade kids redesigned some of the Mailbox pages we have in support of the new model! Imagine them cutting and pasting skill page parts to a new, larger 11X18″ sheet they design and add ideas to. Teams could present their page, and support the ideas behind the changes. What a great way to teach “My Plate” and help kids embrace the changes they must adapt to — in nutrition and life!
I love the idea. I would love to see plates made that way as well.
I, too, will have to get rid of my food pyramid display. 😉
It’s ok, though, because I like the new plate a lot better. It definitely seems easier for the students to understand.
Thanks, everyone, for sharing such neat ideas!
I love it! I hope Canada adopts something similar very soon. I love that it is simple enough for a preschooler to understand, because sometimes us adults need things simplified, too!
Also, I would like to see a chocolate section. Just sayin’. 😉
Love the idea! Seems easier for the little ones to understand and remember!
It’s much easier to understand! Grains no longer outweigh the other groups – finally – and vegetables receive greater emphasis.
In looking at your sample picture, I think this would really help my kinders SEE so much better than the food pyramid does. It sure is easier for me (I’m a visual learner) and therefore my class should understand it better. I too like Cheryl’s idea.
I agree with Joan that the new plate design is so much easier for students to see and later apply on their own plate. Good move in my eyes!
I agree with Cheryl. It’s much easier to understand than the old pyramid. I’m planning to use these with my preK kids to cut out magazine pictures and glue them on to make themselves a healthy meal. During November, we always do a food unit, including table manners and the proper way to set a table, so we’ll be gluing our healthy plates onto a 12×18 inch sheet of construction paper, folding and gluing on a paper napkin as well as cut outs of all the utensils. Then, they can take home their healthy meal and teach their families about it.
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