Nutrition is part of Susan Traugh’s Daily Living Skills series offering transitional skills for mild-to-moderately affected special needs students and general education students alike.
 
Written on a high third/low fourth grade level with airy-pages and bullet-point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens’ maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated transition skills and Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.
 
Workbooks are meant to be self-paced and adaptable with student interests and goals driving most units. Each lesson is taught in a short one-to-three page format with follow-up worksheets/activities to check comprehension. Real world activities are provided whenever possible.
 
Lessons in Daily Living Skills--Nutrition include:
 
The food pyramid*
Serving size
Food labels
Value of vitamins
Divide your plate
"ChooseMyPlate" meal planning
Calorie counting
Calculating your weight
Nutrition tracker
Exercising
Free fitness
Eat on the cheap
Daily meal planning
This new edition includes information on "ChooseMyPlate" meal planning, tracking and videos along with lessons on overcoming reluctance and insights on emotional eating.
 
*The food pyramid, Divide your plate and ChooseMyPlate systems are all offered here as their different visual approaches may be clearer to different students.
 
Also included are Parent Verification Letters to meet federal mandates for family involvement, answer key, and grading sheet.
 
Nutrition, Kitchen Basics, Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning make an excellent cooking unit.
 
A preview of this book is provided here, or sample the series with our free book—Doing Laundry.
 
Titles in the Daily Living Skills transition series include:
 
Building Character
Cleaning House
Doing Laundry
Dress for Success
Everyday Manners
Fair Fighting
Getting a Paycheck
Grocery Shopping
Kitchen Basics
Making Conversation
Making Meals
Managing Stress
Nutrition
Paying Bills
Safe Dating
Staying Healthy
Time Managment
Transportation
Voting
Who Am I? College and Career
 
A Power Point presentation for students, parents and/or administrators is provided here to outline and explain the program in a quick but comprehensive manner. The Power Point is free.
 
Videos for Making Meals and Cleaning house are also included for free on this website.
 
A Teacher's Manual (sold separately) provides tips on organizing and setting-up a transition program, pre- and post-test assessments, class grading sheets, written ITP goals for each workbook to plug into annual IEP's, and code numbers and definitions for federal transition standards for each book.
 
A Powerpoint presentation is available free on this site to introduce your class/parents/administrators to the program.
 
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