Lesson Plan (Theme of the week: Food!

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1st-2nd graders Always food, sometimes food & seldom food 17 students 9:00 am~ 9:45
Objective(s): Letting students know what types of food provide most nutrition and help human body grow and what kinds of food should not be eaten too often. Materials: Yarn (to glue on the posters) Poster paper 3X Markers or crayons Food pictures from magazines or commercials Lesson: Begin by drawing the Healthy Eating Pyramid on the whiteboard. Brainstorm with the students and as questions such as, how much fruit and vegetables do you eat each day? or how much snacks/candy do you eat each day? and then go over the eating pyramid and briefly explain why all the healthy foods benefit us. Next: 1. split the kids into 3 groups of 5 or 6 2. each group get a poster with circles drawn on them 3. have each team member help kids glue the yarns on and write captions on top of the poster Then explain what each category represents and give an example (e.g. pizza will be in the category of sometime food because it has lots of grease and doesnt have enough servings of vegetables). Then each student in each group is going to take turn pick a food picture and decide which circle it belongs in. Lastly Swiss Chard Sushi! Put a bowl of soy sauce for each group, and put the sliced carrots and cumbers in a bowltell them how the Japanese people eat sushi. Additionally, connect this activity with the theme of the week and tell them that you can make delicious, fresh, and nutritious food from your own garden!

7th-8th Graders TV Advertisement and Food! 5 students 9:45~10:15

Objective(s): Exploring how visuals affect our perception of food and how frequent TV advertisements promote health eating habits. Materials: handouts for data (**distribute the day before) 6X Poster or large construction paper 1X Sharpies Crayons Lesson: Ask the students to watch 1 hour of TV the day before (if no access, can use magazines and news papers, too) and record the number of different advertisements they have watched. The students will be working together to come up with the total for each category and the total advertisements recorded as a class. Then ask them to come up with the percentages of each category (have the team members go around the room and help out the kids). Have them share some thoughts about the numbers and what they have observed from this activity. Lastly, they are going to make a poster with a bar charts graph and write a short sentence starting with Did you know Make Swiss Chard sushis!

5th-6th Graders Sugar Detectives+ Reading Food Nutrition Labels 11 students 10:15~10:45
Objective(s): Developing students understanding of their own diet pattern (especially sugar intakes). Reading food label and nutrition facts. Materials: Cereals of different brands. A can of Wichman burger meat can. Two Poster Lesson: (the day before) Ask 2 students to each bring a box of cereal to class. Start off by asking students if they have ever paid attention to the nutrition facts. Go over the nutrition facts of the Wichman burger meat can, especially focus on the sugar part. Teach the students how to read labels such as serving size, serving per container, etc. Point out the importance of reading serving per container. Next split the class into 2 groups and have each group read through the nutrition facts of a cereal. Draw an example of poster on the board. This should include product name, serving size, serving per container, total calories, and a bar chart showing the amount of sugar, fat, and sodium in the cereal. Then ask one person in each group to share their findings and briefly discuss their poster. Make sushi in the end!

3rd-4th Graders Food Tasting 17 students 10:45-11:30

Objective(s): Allow the students to develop the idea of eating local. Materials: Organic carrots Non-organic carrots Organic orange juice Non-organic orange juice Dixie cups 17X Paper bowls 6X Lesson: Begin by asking two students to volunteer to be in a story-telling. One of them will be person who plants foods in his/ her own garden whereas the other one buys foods in the supermarket. Demonstrate how much money each of them spends on foods. Then have the students try the organic carrots first and then try the non-organic ones. Ask them which ones they like more and ask them to describe the differences in texture and tastes. Do the same thing for juice. Make sushi!