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Initiation
Lesson Plan
for Nutrition (1st Grade)
Created by
Kimberly Nance
Completed as
part of the requirements for ELED 4050 Fall Semester, 1999,
Jay Monson, course instructor, USU
Constructing
the Pyramid
- Objective:
The students will be able to recognize the food guide
pyramid and understand the importance of a daily balanced
diet.
- Materials:
10 basic building blocks per student, "Gregory the
Terrible Eater", picture of the food guide pyramid
- Motivation:
Present the food guide pyramid to the students and ask
them if they recognize what shape it is. Then ask them if
they know what the triangle or pyramid
represents.
Procedure:
Briefly explain the food groups within the pyramid.
Explain to the students that they are going to build
their own pyramid with the 10 blocks on their desks.
Build it together with the students placing 4 on the
base, 3, 2, and 1 on the top.
Next tell
the students that the pyramid they made represents the
food guide pyramid and review what each level stands for
in their blocks. Now have the students take away some
blocks off the base and add those blocks to other parts
of the pyramid.
Discuss with
the students what happened when the blocks were moved.
Ask them what problems that had when they tried to
balance more blocks on the top than the bottom.
 Explain
to the students how the pyramid represents their body and
how if they have more "fats and oils" than "wheat and
cereal" in their diets, the nutrients in their bodies
aren't balanced and it causes tummy aches. Explain how
the food they eat every day needs to follow the food
guide pyramid or they will be unhealthy and sick.
Read
"Gregory the Terrible Eater" to the class and discuss the
effects that Gregory's terrible diet had on his health.
Talk about the effects following the food guide pyramid
will have on their health.
- Assessment:
Verbally have the students explain what food groups we
need to have the most of in our diets, the next most and
so on. Verbally have the students make up a healthy diet
for Gregory using the food guide pyramid.
Unit
Summary:
The
Nutrition Unit that I put together was based around the 4
basic food groups. The main objective was to have the
students know the food groups and which foods belonged to
them. The unit also taught the students to have a basic
knowledge of what a "balanced meal" contained according to
the Food Guide Pyramid.
For more
information, E-mail me at SL54V@cc.usu.edu
Resources:
Clearvue,
Inc.
5711 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60646
Utah State
University
Agriculture in the Classroom
2315 University Blvd.
Logan, UT 84322-2315
Willrich,
Lora. Thematic Created Materials, Inc. 1993.
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