|
|
|
|
Healthy Eating
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate knowledge of healthy eating and balanced meals.
Content: Healthy Eating and Nutrition
Learning Activity:
1. The teacher will lead a class discussion on healthy food choices and bad food choices. The class will discuss the meaning of the term junk food, examining why some foods are considered junk and why they should be avoided to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
2. The teacher will have students brainstorm some examples of what foods they think are good and why and what foods they think are bad and why.
3. The class will discuss why healthy eating is important to a healthy lifestyle and will examine Canada’s Food Guide and the basic food groups. The teacher should stress the importance of balanced meals and representing each section of the food group when eating.
4. The class will be put into groups of 2 or 3 and given different fliers from the local newspapers and asked to create 3 healthy meals. They should look through the fliers and find foods that could be put into healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner categories.
5. Students will cut out the pictures or descriptions of these foods and paste them or draw them onto a paper plate. The plates should be marked to show which time of day the meal should be eaten (Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner)
6. The students in each group will present their menus to the rest of the class and explain why they chose those foods and where the foods fit into Canada’s Food Guide.
7. During their presentation, students will explain to their classmates how the different food groups are represented.
8. The teacher should go over each menu and discuss the healthy and unhealthy choices on each menu.
9. The teacher should ensure that the students understand the basic concepts behind healthy eating and food groups.
Evaluation Strategies:
By examining the student menus the teacher will be able to tell whether the students have a grasp of the topic from the choices they made.
Ask the students why this lesson related to nutrition and healthy eating.
Ask the students why representing each food group on the food guide is important and what are the benefits of a balanced meal.
Various Learning Styles
Feelers: This activity would be beneficial to students that are “Feelers” because students must be aware of other people and their feelings while playing this game. This activity is people oriented which appeals to this type of learning style. This activity also provides the student with a reason to learn new information. (For the benefit of staying healthy)
Thinkers: This activity will also appeal to “Thinkers” because the students will have to think about what needs to be done and then have an opportunity to do it. They will also have the opportunity to make decisions impersonally.
Sensors: This activity will also appeal to “Sensors” because these type of students like to use facts to provide them with a deeper understanding of what needs to be done and how to do it.
Intuitors: This activity will also appeal to intuitors because it is a problem solving activity. This activity also provides these students to reach conclusions quickly, work in bursts of energy with slack time in between and be patient with their fellow group members.
Printer
Friendly Version