Overview: In this unit, you will learn how to make positive food choices from the food guide pyramid. This skill will contribute to the development of a healthy lifestyle.
Major Focus
Academic Expectation:
2.31 Students demonstrate the knowledge and skills they need to remain physically healthy and to accept
responsibility for their own physical well-being.
Essential Content
· Basic food groups according to the food guide pyramid
· Healthy snack foods
· Role of nutritious foods on the growth of healthy bodies
Organizer:
Eat right, feel right.
Essential Questions:
· How do foods from the basic food groups make a healthier me?
· How can I make healthy snack choices?
Culminating Project
The class will be organized into five groups. As a group member, you will help develop a classroom cookbook of heart-healthy snack foods. With help from your teacher and group members, talk with your friends, family, and school staff members to determine their favorite heart-healthy snack foods and recipes. Take or create pictures of these snacks for illustration purposes. Identify to which food group the snack foods belongs.