Orrin Hawke

November 25, 2015

PS1- Warner School
Grade:

1/2

Subject: Health

Goals/Key questions
Goals: Canada Health Food Guide shows us what we should eat.
Objective (connected to PofS):

WK.5 recognize that nutritious foods are needed for growth and to feel
good/have energy; e.g., nutritious snacks
W1.5 recognize the importance of basic, healthy, nutritional choices to wellbeing of self; e.g., variety of food, drinking water, eating a nutritious
breakfast
W2.5 classify foods according to Canadas Food Guide to Healthy Eating, and
apply knowledge of food groups to plan for appropriate snacks and meals

Pre lesson Considerations

Lesson overview of main ideas to be learned and prelearning required:

Review that the brain controls all parts of the body. There are 4 food groups in
the Canadian Health Food Guide.
Materials needed/preset up required/logistical considerations needed
(seating arrangement):
-Posters of their bodies -gonoodle Poster for kids food drawings 4 green, yellow,
blue and red cards

Content:
What is the teacher doing?
Introduct
ion
5 min
Activity 1
10 min

Gonoodle
Get the body moving

What do you consider to be

important about our brains?
What are ways to keep the
brain healthy?
Healthy foods, exercise,
head protection, and hard
tasks such as art, music,

What are the students

doing?
Dance

Group answers/
discussion

Activity 2
15 min

Conclusio
n
10 min

math, reading
We need healthy food for
our minds
If I told you that breakfast
was the most important
meal of the day, why do you
think that is?
Breakfast jump starts the
body
Look at Canada Health Food
Guide
What can we tell from this
picture about the kinds of
foods?
There are four groups
There is no junk food
There are more fruits and
veggies than anything else
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fnan/alt_formats/hpfbdgpsa/pdf/food-guidealiment/view_eatwell_vue_bi
enmang-eng.pdf
Divide class into 4 groups
Each group has a different
colour of recipe cards
(green= veg/fruit;
yellow=grains; blue=dairy;
read= meats/protein)
Each kid will draw a food
item from their coloured
category, and place it in
their section of the big
poster (put name on card)
Healthy food helps our
brains
Work on your poster from
last day
On our posters we will be
adding a brain
Draw a brain
Draw a thought bubble, and
include a thought that your
brain might be having

Examine Smart
Board picture
Group discussion

Project work
Draw a food item
from your
designated food
group colour
PUT NAME ON CARD

Work on posters
(brain and thought
bubble)

Assessment: - food group card -posters, pictures of brain and thought bubble

Accommodations/Modifications:
- Have them draw two items on their cards
Extension and extra time activity:
-Lesson on What is the difference between fruits and vegetables
-Create a healthy breakfast
Reflection on how the lesson went.