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Katie Blunt
Subject:
Health Science Education
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Lesson Plan
Level:
Lower Elementary
Grade:
2
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    Eating Healthy (Food Groups)

    Eating Healthy (Food Groups)

    Overview

    This is a second grade lesson plan about nutrition and building blanaced meals. In this lesson, students will review the five food groups and create a video presentation showing a balanced meal they created with their family. This lesson plan was created by Sydney Blake. It aligns with 2nd Grade Standard 5 Nutrition - Standard 2.N.1: Identify food and beverage choices that contribute to good health. https://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=7020

    Summary

    This is a second grade lesson plan about nutrition and building blanaced meals. In this lesson, students will review the five food groups and create a video presentation showing a balanced meal they created with their family

    Student Learning Intentions & Success Criteria

    Objective:

    What does it mean to eat healthy? What are the 5 food groups? How do you build a balanced meal?

    Instructional Procedures

    Procedures:

    List the names of all five food groups on the board. Explain that foods are put into groups to help us understand how to create a balanced meal. Ask the class why they think eating foods from each food group is important. Putting food from each food group on our plate helps us eat smart to play hard.

    Invite students to share a food. Encourage them to think about foods they have eaten at home or in the cafeteria, or seen their parents purchase in the supermarket. Prompt them by asking them to think of foods they’ve seen that grow in the ground or on trees or plants, are found in the sea, or come from an animal. Write down their answers on the board.

    Work together as a class to determine what food group each belongs to. If students suggest a combination food or dish (for example: pizza, sandwich, curry, or tacos), help students to break the meal down by asking them to think about its specific main food ingredients. For example: Tacos — tortilla (Grain Group), tomatoes and lettuce (Vegetable Group), cheese (Dairy Group), ground turkey or beef (Protein Foods Group).

    Introduce what a balanced meal looks like using choosemyplate.gov (found below).

    Divide students into groups and have them brainstorm balanced meals and share them with the class.

    Resources:

    choosemyplate.gov

    ChooseMyPlate.gov

     

    Assessment Plan

    Assignment:

    Take a picture of 5 foods you find in your houseIdentify that food as being a fruit, vegetable, grain, protein or dairy.Use those 5 foods to build a balanced meal for your family.Using Adobe Spark you will make a video containing pictures of your 5 foods including a voice recording of what each food is and what category it fits in. Also include a picture of your completed meal. Please be safe preparing your food and make sure an adult is supervising or assisting you.

    Link to example:

    Use the following link or the attached file to access an example Adobe Spark project.

    https://spark.adobe.com/video/tmeyUM9vwoz1A

    Rubric:

    Use the attached rubric to assess student mastery.

    Rubric for Nonachievement Factors