Tour Stats
GRADE LEVEL
Pre K - 2 (60 Minutes)
3 - 6 (90 minutes)
AGE LEVEL
4 - 12
Materials
Activities
PRE K - GRADE 2
GRADES 3 - 6

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Be A Smart Shopper!
Better Eaters Make Better Learners!

Teaching Moments on this Tour:
Discover how smart shopping can contribute to a lifetime of healthy eating and living. Learn how to read nutrition labels and explore the variety of vitamins and minerals that come from different foods. Understand how balanced meals provide the body with the energy it needs throughout the day.

Additional learning topics:

  • Recycling
  • Personal Care
  • Value/Savings
  • Physical Activity

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.

Metro Market
Aligns with Your Local Learning Standards and STEM*
Contributes to Scout Related Awards

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 Be A Smart Shopper! 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)

Trip Learning Standards
Health
  • Understands essential concepts about nutrition and diet.
  • Knows how to maintain and promote personal health.
  • Understands the fundamental concepts of growth and development.
Life Work
  • Manages money effectively.
Mathematics
  • Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation.
  • Understands general nature and use of math.
Working with Others
  • Contributes to an overall effort of a group.
  • Displays effective interpersonal communication skills.
  • Demonstrates leadership skills.
Physical Education
  • 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.
Scout Related Awards
Girl Scouts - Brownie
  • Eat Right, Stay Healthy
  • Healthy Habits
  • Penny Power
girl scouts - junior
  • A Healthier You
  • Consumer Power
  • Food Power
  • Highway to Health
girl scouts - cadette
  • Dollars and Sense
  • The Food Connection
boy scouts
  • Personal Fitness
Look at What Your Colleagues are Saying

“The field trip was great. My daughter really took the sugar and cereal lesson to heart.”
-Melissa Speikers, Brownies Leader

“This reinforced my lessons from the fall. Thank you for offering this. Kids have such great experiences investigating everyday places they visit with their families.”
-Liz Biagi, Pre-K Teacher

“This trip was a real life ‘behind the scenes’ look at what goes on at a grocery store. It enhanced our children's learning about foods for Healthy Me & Restaurant Units.”
-Cheryl Dinger, Pre-K Teacher

About the Host

Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. is one of the Midwest’s oldest and largest grocers, serving communities in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois with over 150 stores. Rainbow, Pick ‘n Save, Copps, Metro Market and Mariano’s are all part of the Roundy’s Supermarkets family. Roundy’s commits itself to understanding the needs and lifestyles of consumers in a manner that delivers satisfaction. With programs like We Care and Sack Hunger, Roundy’s stores contribute to community sustenance. Roundy’s also provides charitable donations, event sponsorships and community partnerships through the Roundy’s Foundation, which helps to ease hunger, families in crisis, and illiteracy through food pantries and education initiatives.

Bus Funding

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*Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics