Lesson #1 focuses on teaching 4th grade students about healthy eating habits through portion sizes. Students will compare and contrast portion sizes of healthy and unhealthy foods using worksheets, charts, and a video. They will categorize foods as healthy or unhealthy, discuss cultural foods, and create a healthy food plate for homework showing proper portion sizes. The lesson aims to help students comprehend appropriate portion sizes to make better food choices.
Lesson #1 focuses on teaching 4th grade students about healthy eating habits through portion sizes. Students will compare and contrast portion sizes of healthy and unhealthy foods using worksheets, charts, and a video. They will categorize foods as healthy or unhealthy, discuss cultural foods, and create a healthy food plate for homework showing proper portion sizes. The lesson aims to help students comprehend appropriate portion sizes to make better food choices.
Lesson #1 focuses on teaching 4th grade students about healthy eating habits through portion sizes. Students will compare and contrast portion sizes of healthy and unhealthy foods using worksheets, charts, and a video. They will categorize foods as healthy or unhealthy, discuss cultural foods, and create a healthy food plate for homework showing proper portion sizes. The lesson aims to help students comprehend appropriate portion sizes to make better food choices.
Lesson #1 focuses on teaching 4th grade students about healthy eating habits through portion sizes. Students will compare and contrast portion sizes of healthy and unhealthy foods using worksheets, charts, and a video. They will categorize foods as healthy or unhealthy, discuss cultural foods, and create a healthy food plate for homework showing proper portion sizes. The lesson aims to help students comprehend appropriate portion sizes to make better food choices.
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Teacher: Ms.
Sharifa Pratt Lesson number: Lesson Title: Lesson #1 Food For Thought Grade/Subject: 4th Grade / Healthy Eating Habits Learning Segment Essential Question: How can we use portion sizes to help us make better choices of food? (If this is a literacy-based lesson, please complete this box) Central focus: To comprehend the appropriate portion size of specific foods Essential literacy strategy: Compare and contrast Requisite skills: Comprehending text with various types of charts Reading and Writing connections: Children will need to be able to read from a pie chart, a diagram and a flowchart Content/Common Core Standard(s): CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7
Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). Learning Objectives associated with the content standards: Students will be able to identify words in a text with flowcharts and pie charts. Academic Language Demands
Academic Language Supports
Vocabulary: Portion, Nutrition
Vocabulary: Size, Healthy Choice
Language function: Tier 3
Language function: Tier 3
Discourse or Syntax: Syntax
Discourse or Syntax: Syntax
Student Friendly Daily Learning Targets
Students pick a type of food and decide whether or not the food is a healthy choice Monitoring Student Learning: Formal and Informal Assessments prior to, during & after learning segment Before talking about portion sizes and healthy choices, have students complete worksheet. Worksheet will assess if students know the differences between healthy and unhealthy choices of food.
Description of formal/ informal assessments: Both formal and informal assessments will be taken What is being assessed: If students know the differences between healthy and unhealthy choices of food to eat Assessment accommodations: Give students different choices of food (on paper). Have them categorize each food into a healthy section or an unhealthy section Type of feedback that will be given to students: Score how well or poorly students did on assessment after lesson. Ask what they learned and what they will do in the future in order to make healthy choices of food. What students will do with the feedback: Students will begin making healthier choices of food Instructional Resources and Materials: Printable place mat Connection to prior academic learning and prerequisite skills: Students will compare and contrast the portion sizes of healthy and unhealthy foods Connections to cultural/personal/community assets: Students may discuss any cultural dishes their families make. We will analyze the ingredients and assess whether or not it is a healthy choice Motivation/Hook/Anticipatory Set: (10 min) This video will begin towards the middle of the lesson after I explain the differences between healthy and unhealthy choices of food. This video will set up the discussion for choosing proper portion sizes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTQUH0v6no
Procedure: Time
15min
10min
Teacher Action
Describing the differences between
healthy and unhealthy food choices
Student Action
Children will begin categorizing the foods on their
worksheet to either a healthy or unhealthy column
To set up video for students
Students will watch video and take notes on what
they observed Closure (5-7 min) As a homework assignment, students will create their own healthy food plate. They will give the portion sizes, the amount and a drink has to be included.
How students will reflect on their own learning
Students will discuss in groups the choices they made to show which foods were healthy, which ones were unhealthy and how we can make the unhealthy choices a bit healthier. Accommodations/Modifications to requirements in IEPs and 504 plans Students with IEPs and 504 plans will be in a group that requires extra time spent on finding the differences between the healthy and non healthy choices of food. Teacher or assistant teacher will provide the extra help Differentiation Cut out portions of food (appropriate sizes) will be given to students that are visual learners. These students will appropriately place the food onto the placemat to show if they understand portion sizes as well as healthy and unhealthy choices of food. Technology Integration to Support Learning Portion sizes place mat will be shown on Smart Board. Students will be able to identify with the placemat they have in front of them and the one shown on the screen in order to place correct food portions on their mats.
