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| + | Each of the nutrition games presents a different learning opportunity. | ||
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| + | ;Name That Food: This game is about literacy, but also provides some nutritional information about the foods as they are presented. | ||
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| + | ;How Many Calories?: This game introduces the concept that different foods have different nutrition value. The focus here is on calories. | ||
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| + | ;How Much to Eat?: This game is based upon the Food Pyramid. It introduces the concept that not all foods should be consumed in equal quantities. E.g., high-sugar-content foods should be eaten in small quantities, while grains and fruits can be eaten in larger quantities. | ||
== Extending Nutrition == | == Extending Nutrition == | ||
Revision as of 10:34, 12 April 2012
About Nutrition
A series of three nutrition games: Name That Food; How Many Calories; How Much to Eat
Where to get Nutrition
The Nutrition activity is available for download from the Sugar activity portal: Nutrition
The source code is available on the Sugar Labs Gitorious server.
Using Nutrition
Did you know:
- If you get the correct answer, a smiley face is shown.
- If you get a wrong answer, the correct answer is shown on a frowny face.
The Toolbars
- from left to right
- Activity-toolbar Button
- (toolbar described below)
- Name-that-food Button
- Launches a new Name That Food game
- How-many-calories Button
- Launches a new How Many Calories? game
- How-much-should-I-eat Button
- Launches a new How Much to Eat? game
- Stop Button
- used to exit the activity
Acitivity Toolbar
- Activity name field
- used to change the name of the activity (The name is used by the save-to-PDF Button.)
- Share Button
- disabled (Portfolio Activity does not support sharing)
- Reflection Button
- used to write descriptions for the Journal entry of this instance of Portfolio
Learning with Nutrition
Each of the nutrition games presents a different learning opportunity.
- Name That Food
- This game is about literacy, but also provides some nutritional information about the foods as they are presented.
- How Many Calories?
- This game introduces the concept that different foods have different nutrition value. The focus here is on calories.
- How Much to Eat?
- This game is based upon the Food Pyramid. It introduces the concept that not all foods should be consumed in equal quantities. E.g., high-sugar-content foods should be eaten in small quantities, while grains and fruits can be eaten in larger quantities.
Extending Nutrition
Modifying Nutrition
Your suggestions for enhancements and/or use cases...
Where to report problems
You can report bugs and make feature requests on our bug-tracking system (You need to create an account first). To list all open tickets of Nutrition you can use query component=Nutrition. You are also welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the Talk:Activities/Nutrition page.
Credits
Nutrition was written and is maintained by User:Walter. He was assisted by Claudia Urrea and Felix Garrido of Fundación Zamora Terán.