Tasty Rainbow / Olive Gets the Big Picture
From Elinor Wonders Why · 2024
23 minPre-KK1stScienceHealth
Summary
Eat the rainbow! The kids explore why different-colored fruits and vegetables help bodies in different ways. Then Olive keeps missing the forest for the trees, and learns to step back and see the big picture.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Colorful plates and the big picture — both take a wider look.
- Why is it good to eat fruits and vegetables of many colors?
- What colors were on the kids' plates? What did each food do for their bodies?
- What does it mean to 'see the big picture'?
- When has looking closer — or stepping back — helped you understand something?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: nutrients, healthy, rainbow, zoom out, detail.
Try it: Draw a plate with foods in four different colors. Label each one.
Try it: Look at a picture up close, then far away. What do you notice at each distance?