BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING:
NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY
COURSE MODULE COURSE LAB WEEK
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Nutripreneurship
✓ Read course and laboratory unit objectives
✓ Read study guide prior to class attendance
✓ Read required learning resources; refer to course
unit terminologies for jargons
✓ Participate in weekly discussion board (Canvas)
✓ Answer and submit course unit tasks
At the end of this unit, the students are expect to:
1. Prepare successfully grow vegetables for potential commercial vegetable production.
2. Improve skills for growing fresh and safe vegetables without use of any pesticide.
3. Create awareness about kitchen gardening.
4. Produce vegetables that are rich sources of macro and micro nutrients and eventually
increase vegetable consumption and improve learners’ nutrition.
5. Showcase potentially small-scale food production model.
6. Inculcate among the learners the values of gardening, good health and nutrition and
love of labor.
Caudal, Maria Lourdes C. (2019). Basic nutrition and diet therapy: textbook for nursing
students 2nd Edition. QC: C&E. F 613.2 C31 2019
1. Recyclable plastic bottles/pot, soil, seeds, shovel (or something to scoop the soil) and
spray water.
2. Choose 1 (one) among the following vegetable seeds you will plant: onion, lettuce,
tomato, potato, petchay, camote, radish, cucumber, okra.
To facilitate the practice of students planting skills, the
following steps should be followed:
1. Scoop the soil with shovel into the plant pot and fill it
up.
2. Place the soil in available pots such as plastic bottles,
egg trays, cans.
3. Pinch some seeds and scatter them into the soil. Once
done, push a little bit of the soil over the seeds to
cover them.
4. Fill the spray bottle with water and mist the soil.
5. Take good care of the plants to make them grow into
healthy ones. Observe the changes from time to time
and see when the plants have already sprouted .
1. Take a picture of your planted vegetable weekly until 6 weeks.
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
2. Why did you choose this vegetable plant among the different seeds given?
3. What nutrients will you get upon harvesting your vegetable plant? Explain what
macro and micro nutrients that you will get in this vegetable.
4. Will you continue planting the vegetable that you’ve chosen? Why?
5. Does the planted vegetable has a quality to market?
Date Completed:
Date Submitted:
Caudal, Maria Lourdes C. (2019). Basic nutrition and diet therapy: textbook for nursing
students 2nd Edition. QC: C&E. F 613.2 C31 2019
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