Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating Lesson Plan

Contextual Data: I used the food pyramid. You would want to use the most current guideline for healthy eating

National Standards: Student will demonstrate the ability to access valid health information.

Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.

Unit Objectives: Students will be able to analyze a diet and classify it as healthy or unhealthy.

Students will be able to recognize an eating disorder and know how to respond.

Students will construct goals for a healthy diet and be able to apply these goals.

Lesson 1: As an introductory, start by naming a food and have the class tell you if they think that is a healthy of unhealthy food. Then reflect on their answer with the answer that you want them to know. This lesson is used to get the students into the right mind set and should only be used for a few minutes.

Objectives: Students will demonstrate their current knowledge of healthy eating.

Students will engage in classroom discussion.

Lesson 2: Have the students write down what they ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and everything in between, for the day prior. Ask if any students want to share what they had. (Someone will). If they do not, don't be pushy. You don't want to invade their privacy. For those that do share, you can reflect on their diet, and use it as a tool for teaching your nutrition lesson. Then, show them the food pyramid, or the most current lesson aid, and have them compare their diet to the chart to see where they can make changes. As an assessment you can have them write three areas that they need to improve in, and three ways that these improvements can be made. Length of this lesson is reciprocal to class involvement, but should not take longer than 20 minutes.

Objectives: Students will be able to use the food pyramid as a guideline for healthy eating.

Students will be able to analyze a diet, and recognize areas in need of change.

Students will set goals for themselves and demonstrate the knowledge needed to achieve these goals.