Title – Food For Fitness

By – Deja Brown

Primary Subject – PE & Health

Grade Level – 2nd

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Health Standards:

2.1 The student understands that personal health decisions and behaviors affect health throughout the life span.
C identify food groups and describe the effects of eating too much sugar and fat.

D identify healthy and unhealthy food such as breakfast and snacks and fast food choices.

G describe how a healthy diet can help protect the body against some disease.

Learning Objectives:

• The student will be able to recite how many servings in each food group after going over food group chart.
  
• The student will be able to perform proper cleaning habits before eating food after review at beginning of lesson.
• The student will be able to complete Food for Fitness worksheet after given instructions.

List of Materials:

• Food Pyramid
• Servings Chart
• Markers
  
• Butcher Paper
  
• Worksheet
  
• Pencils

Pre-Activity Preparation:

• Make a Food Pyramid and a Servings Chart
• Create and make copies of a Food for Fitness worksheet.

Transition:

• Everyone stays seated in desks.
• Call students to board when needed.

Establishing Set/Motivation /Introduction:

• Review: What is a food pyramid?
• Discuss: Their favorite foods and how they affect your body.

Learning Experiences/Presentation/Procedure:

1. Food Pyramid Review:
   • Set up food pyramid on board.
     
   • Ask questions: Can anyone tell me what this is?
     
   • Grains section:
     • Explain how many servings and what foods are in this food group.
   • Vegetables food group:
     • Explain importance of vegetables.
     • Explain how many servings are needed each day of vegetables.
   • Fruit food group:
     • Question: is drinking a Capri Sun a good source for a fruit serving?
     • It has fruit on the carton, so why not?
   • Dairy section:
     • Explain how many servings we need each day.
     • Question: Does the dairy group only have milk in it?
     • What other food are found in the dairy group?
   • Meat section:
     • Explain different foods that are in this section such as peanut butter and eggs.
     • Question: how many servings of this do we need each day?
   • Fats & oils:
     • Name different foods that are in this section.
     • Explain how they affect your body.
2. Put up Servings Chart on white board.
   • Go over each section.
   • Answer the question: how many servings? What to eat?
3. Pass out worksheets.
   • Give instructions several times.
     
   • Go around and help students where it is needed.

Closure:

• Food for Fitness Worksheet.
  
• If you order a spinach pizza at CiCi’s, are you still getting a serving of vegetables?

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