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A Delicious Learning Opportunity
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Teaching Moments on this Tour:
Explore all that the grocery store has to offer – from healthy food choices to behind the scenes operations. Discover produce from around the world. Understand how the food groups and portion size contribute to a balanced meal. Analyze nutrition labels and how vitamins benefit the body. Learn how food gets to the store and what happens once it arrives.
Additional learning topics:
- Pharmacy
- Personal Care
- Physical Activity
- Value/Savings
MyPlate
Created by the USDA, the MyPlate is a practical tool that shows guidelines for making better food choices - your trip has been updated with these guidelines. Download your own MyPlate here.
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Aligns with Your Local Learning Standards and STEM*
Contributes to Scout Related Awards
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Lessons come to life as children are active, engaged and challenged during this fun and educational Field Trip. Trained tour leaders will customize your trip to be age appropriate and meet the educational needs of your group. See the outline below for the many ways Explore The Store! benefits students and scouts.
Tour Highlights and Activity Sheets
Review the Tour Highlights for a detailed outline of the Field Trip content. Don't forget to download the activity sheets designed to help support your lessons! You can use them before the trip to get children excited, or after to continue the learning. (Both are located on the left sidebar)
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| Trip Learning Standards
Health
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- Understands essential concepts about nutrition and diet.
- Knows how to maintain and promote personal health.
- Understands the fundamental concepts of growth and development. function
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Life Work
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- Manages money effectively.
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Mathematics
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- Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation.
- Understands general nature and use of math.
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Working With Others
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- Contributes to an overall effort of a group.
- Displays effective interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrates leadership skills.
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Physical Education
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- Uses a variety of basic and advanced movement forms.
- Understands benefits associated with participation in physical activity.
- Understands how to monitor and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
- Understands the social and personal responsibility associated with participation in physical activity.
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| Scout Related Awards
Girl Scouts - Brownie
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- Eat Right, Stay Healthy
- Healthy Habits
- Penny Power
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girl scouts - junior
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- A Healthier You
- Consumer Power
- Food Power
- Highway to Health
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girl scouts - cadette
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- Dollars and Sense
- The Food Connection
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boy scouts
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Look at What Your Colleagues are Saying
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“The kids enjoyed the goodie bags and I appreciated all the food information. Thank you.”
-Cayla Burrow, Teacher
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“Our tour leader was very kind, adaptable and gracious with our large group of preschoolers. He did a wonderful job tailoring his message to our young and restless bunch.”
-Amberley Baum, Teacher
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“Kevin and Dave were wonderful with the children. We tasted pineapple and spent lots of time in each department learning about their work. My children were so engaged. They are still talking about the trip!“
-Kris Domitrovich, Teacher
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About the Host
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Over 40 Family Thrift, Sun Mart and Econo Foods stores all operate within the Nash Finch Company throughout the Midwest and share a strong dedication to relationships with customers. Each banner offers a plethora of healthy living tips for the whole family in-store and on their websites. Nash Finch has donated over 90,000 books to K-6 graders and non-profit groups through Feeding Imagination. The company also provides military distribution of groceries to soldiers and their families at home and abroad, and provides local hunger relief through Loaves and Fishes.
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Bus Funding
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We know that while our trips are FREE, your busing situation may not be so cost-effective. We have three different options to help get you to the field trip for FREE too! Click the MORE BUS FUNDING INFO button below to find out your next steps!
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