Nutrition Unit



LESSON PLANS - Nutrition Unit

Theme – Developing Self

CAREER SKILLS – Developing Self

KEY SKILLS – Communication, Problem Solving, Working With Others, Improving Own Learning and Performance

WORK RELATED LEARNING – Learning For Work

COMPETENCIES – *ai, *aii, *bi, *ci, *cii, *di, **ei, **eii, **eiii, **eiv, **evi, ***fiv, ***kiv, ****li, ****mi

SUGGESTED SUBJECT AREA – English

Learning Outcomes

By completing this task students will be able to:

• Learn the importance of nutrition in keeping them healthy.

Outline:

Lesson 1: Being Healthy

Lesson 2: Make a healthy food collage

Lesson 3: Food Bingo

Lesson 4: Food Pyramid

Lesson 5: Colors of food posters

Lesson 6: How do you tell a fruit from a vegetable

Lesson 7: Play Restaurant

LESSON 1: BEING HEALTHY

Discussion:

1. What can we do to help our bodies stay healthy?

(exercise, eat healthy, sleep, brush our teeth, take baths, wash our hands often)

2. What kinds of food help to keep us healthy?

(fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, milk)

3. Is sleep important for our bodies?

4. Should we eat a lot of sweet foods and snacks? Why or why not?

(cavities and they are not good for us)

5. What is your favorite food to eat?

(pizza, cookies, chicken)

6. What is a fruit?

7. What is a vegetable?

Read any story about healthy living or healthy foods. Discuss the book. Bring in examples of fruit and vegetables.

Have posters up in the room with healthy habits on them: for instance children washing their hands, brushing their teeth and eating healthy foods!

LESSON 2: HEALTHY FOOD COLLAGE

Learning Outcomes:

By completing this task students will be able to:

• Name healthy foods.

Preparation and Materials

• Have many food magazines from local grocery stores for children to cut out pictures. Try to have as many colored pictures as possible.

• The students need glue, scissors and a piece of construction paper to glue it on.

Method

1. Talk to children about healthy foods.

2. Give them each some glue, scissors, and a piece of construction paper. Have them look through the brochures and magazines pictures for healthy foods they like to eat.

3. Then have them cut them out and glue them onto their piece of construction paper.

4. When they are all done they will be able to stand up one at a time in front of the class and tell the other students what they picked out and to point to the picture of that food item.

5. Hang them up around the room for parents and other teachers to see!

LESSON 3: FOOD BINGO

Learning Outcomes

By completing this task students will be able to:

• Learn how to play Bingo.

• Learn the names of many different kinds of fruits and vegetables.

Preparation and Materials:

1. Before the day of the lesson cut out the bingo cards of fruits and vegetables. Make enough cards for the number of children in your class. If possible have these cards laminated so you can use them often.

2. Then make up cards with names of all the fruits and vegetables you used on your Bingo cards for the caller to call out. When a child gets 3 or four in a row they call Bingo.

3. You might want to have stickers as prizes or nothing at all. The kids really enjoy this and they can learn new fruits or vegetables if you put pictures of unusual fruits of vegetables such as eggplants and Kiwi!

LESSON 4: FOOD PYRAMID

Learning Outcomes

By completing this task students will be able to:

• Learn about the food pyramid and the different sections of it.

• Learn what foods they should have the most of to keep them healthy!

Preparation and Materials:

• Have a copy of the new Food Pyramid and make the pyramid shape on a wall.

• Leave the pyramid squares all blank for the children to put in the food items.

• Have a piece of paper in each section that names that part of the pyramid such as breads.

Method

1. Talk to the children about what the pyramid represents and what each section is.

1. Then get out pictures of foods and have the children try to put the food in the correct section of the pyramid.

2. After they are done let them look at what they made and go through the whole pyramid together as a class talking about all the examples in each section.

3. Also talk about food portions and servings and how much of each serving they are to have a day.

LESSON 5: COLORS OF FOOD

Learning Outcomes

By completing this task students will be able to:

• Learn the different colors of foods and make a poster of the different colors to hang on the wall.

Preparation and Materials

• Have many food magazines with many pictures of different colors of food.

• Have four to five pieces of large posters board to glue the pictures onto.

• Have the posters labeled by the color of the food that will be put on it, such as Green Foods, Red Foods, etc. (I did four posters: Red, Green, Purple and Blue!)

Method

1. After the children cut out the pictures label each item under the picture, such as Tomato, grapes etc.

2. After you are all done gluing and making the posters have the children point to an item and the rest of the class tells what it is and what color it is.

3. The posters can be laminated after they are done so they last longer.

LESSON 6: FRUIT OR VEGETABLE?

Learning Outcomes

By completing this task students will be able to:

• Learn the difference between a vegetable and a fruit

Method

1. Ask the students: How Do You Know a Vegetable from a Fruit? One way is fruits grow on trees or vines and vegetables grow in the ground!

2. Try and show the students examples of real foods and see if they can tell you if it grows in the ground or on a tree and if it is a fruit or a vegetable!

3. Have such examples as corn, tomatoes, green beans, pears, peaches and grapes. Then possibly eat them all for a great healthy snack! Have some unusual ones much as Kiwi and Eggplant if you can find them at your local store!

LESSON 7: RESTAURANT

Learning Outcomes:

By completing this task students will be able to:

• Play restaurant and chose healthy foods when eating out!

Preparation and Materials

• Colored paper or card.

• Magazines that have pictures of food in them.

• Colored Pens

Method

1. Put the students into groups of three.

2. In their groups as the students to discuss the type of restaurant they would like to own: Italian, Chinese, Cantonese, Thai, Sea food, American Style, Soup and Sandwich bar, French, Curry House etc.

3. The students must reach a consensus in their group on the type of restaurant they are going to own.

4. Give the group pens, paper and magazines to make menus with pictures of vegetables and dinners. Then under each picture put the name of the item that they will serve in their menus.

5. Have students have a kitchen area and lots of play food to use to make dinners in their restaurant. Have the students set the table with a plate cup and napkin. This could be obtained from your canteen.

6. Then have them take turns being the waiter, cook, and customer.

7. You could also ask groups to change so that they are experiencing a different style of restaurant.

8. Ask the students what they have learned from the lesson.

9. Summarize the main learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes: By completing this task you will be able to:

• Explore a dream ambition.

• Understand the differences between appropriate ambition and unrealistic fantasy.

• Use career research skills to locate information.

ACTIVITY SHEET (1) – Nutrition Unit, lesson 1

E. What is a fruit?

F. What is a vegetable?

Learning Outcomes: By completing this task you will be able to:

• Learn how to play bingo.

• Learn the names of different fruits and vegetables.

ACTIVITY SHEET (2) – Nutrition Unit, lesson 3

Bingo Cards

• Photocopy sheet for students to play bingo

Learning Outcomes: By completing this task you will be able to:

• Learn what foods they should have the most of to keep them healthy!

• Learn about the food pyramid and the different sections of it.

ACTIVITY SHEET (3) – Nutrition Unit, lesson 4

Learning Outcomes: By completing this task you will be able to:

• Learn the difference between a vegetable and a fruit

ACTIVITY SHEET (4) – Nutrition Unit, lesson 6

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A

What can we do to help our bodies stay healthy?

B

What foods keep us healthy?

C

Is sleep important for our bodies?

Should we eat a lot of sweet foods and snacks?

D

E

What is your favourite food to eat?

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