Pick Your Plate: A Global Guide to Nutrition
Pick Your Plate is an Android-based educational nutrition game developed by the Smithsonian Institution. The game takes you on a journey around the world with Plato, where you learn about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from different countries. The game features engaging gameplay that allows you to plan a healthy meal for morning, midday, and evening while exploring food guides from eight different countries, including Argentina, Australia, Benin, Cambodia, Finland, Lebanon, Mexico, and the United States of America.
In Pick Your Plate, you can plan your meals around a daily budget using currency from different countries. The game also features music from the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, which is distributed by Smithsonian Folkways. The game has an embedded tutorial that teaches students how to play the game, making it ideal for use in the classroom or at home. The game's use of portion points to evaluate nutritional values and its alignment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals make it an excellent educational tool for students.
