Overview and Background: Unit: A Plate of Food

Tracy May : Cheney USD 268

Physical Education, Wellness. : Nutrition : Nutrition

Cheney : Grades 1 - 1 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	A Plate of Food
Topics:	Nutrition
Start Date:	-

Other Designers: Kay Wulf

Summary:
This unit will look at nutrition and healthy eating.

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:
Videos:
Gregory the Terrible Eater / Reading Rainbow.
Well Well Well with Slim Goodbody.

The ABC's of Body Building (board game) / Kansas State University.

Food Pyramid poster

Short story "Tumbleweed Stew" / by Susan Stevens Crummel.

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:

Notes:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:
Standard(s):	Science 6.1 The students will make decisions based on scientific understanding of personal health. Physical Education 5 Identify personal behaviors that support a healthy lifestyle and participate regularly in physical activity that contributes to attainment and maintenance of personal activity goals

Understandings:
user	A healthy diet means a healthy body.

Essential Questions:
User	Are all foods good for you? What happens if you eat all junk food?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
Basic food groups

S
Compare and contrast
Greater than / less than

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will be given a paper plate. They will use old magazines to cut out food items and glue them to the plate. The plates should represent a balanced diet based on the food pyramid.

Task/Prompt: A Plate of Food

Type:Performance Task

Topics: Nutrition

Summary:
Students will be given a paper plate. They will use old magazines to cut out food items and glue them to the plate. The plates should represent a balanced diet based on the food pyramid.

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:
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Link 5: http://

Notes:

Student Directions:
You need to fix a balanced meal for yourself. Cut out pictures of food items from old magazines and glue them to your paper plate. The plates should represent a balanced, healthy diet based on the food pyramid.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
KWL on healthy food.

H
Watch the video Gregory the Terrible Eater.

E
Student will bring empty breakfast food containers from home. Using post-it notes, they will write the name of the product and the number of grams and percentage of sugar. On a different colored post-it note, they will write name of the product and the number of grams and percentage of fat. Students will then put their post-it notes on a large wall chart so they can see how their product compares to others.

Using their breakfast product, students will line up in a row from least to most based on the amount of sugar in their product. Repeat with the amount of fat.

Each student is given an empty food pyramid. They will draw an item that represents each food group in the appropriate location. This activity is integrated in the story "Tumbleweed Stew."

Students make a Tumble-Snack. They select from a combination of healthy items to create their own snack.

Students will cut pictures of snack foods in old magazines and paste them to the class "Healthy Snacks" or "Junk Food Snacks" posters.

R
Before gluing items to the plate, students should review each other's project to check for a balanced meal.

E
Students will be given a paper plate. They will use old magazines to cut out food items and glue them to the plate. The plates should represent a balanced diet based on the food pyramid.