1. Introductory Activity-     Warm up "Musical Food" Equipment : Any music with a good beat. Directions:   When music starts, have students perform a designated locomotor movement around the playing area. When the music stops, teacher says a name of a food –students respond with “GO”, “Whoa”, or “NO”.  Repeat changing locomotor movement. “GO”                        for healthy foods “Whoa”            for somewhat healthy-depending on portions and how often “NO”                nonhealthy Vocabulary/Language Skills: could be the names of the food items.

 

2. Fitness-                        Four aspects—cardiovascular and nutrition  "Healthy Snack Tag" Equipment:  bean bags or plastic fruit and vegetables. Directions:   Designate four (4) junk food snackers; they are the taggers.  Six (6) students will be the healthy snackers; they will hold a beanbag or piece of healthy food. . –On the instruction “EAT”, the junk food snackers try to tag the students who have not been designated as any snacker (may vary the locomotor movement).  If a student is tagged, she freezes (as she does not have the energy to move after the junk food snack) until a healthy snacker gives away their healthy snack.  She then becomes a healthy snacker and the other student is eligible to be tagged. Vocabulary/Language Skills: New fruits and vegetable names, descriptive words for feeling tired or energized

Note:  Safety in movement.  Discuss strategies for not being tagged as well as good ideas for healthy snack. Might bring in hand washing and refrigeration discussion.

 

3. Lesson Focus-             Food pyramid "Food pyramid relay" Equipment:  Index cards with pictures of food groups, large drawings of pyramids made of poster boards- one per team. Directions:    Place students in relay lines.  Choose members of each line arbitrarily, not on ability.  Index cards are scattered throughout the area, across from lines.  Each team has a large picture of a pyramid.   When game begins, one player from each team runs (or any choice of movement) to pick up one card and returns to his team.  The entire team assists in the proper placement of the card by food group. The game is over when all the cards are picked up. Vocabulary/Language Skills: Grains, Pasta, Legumes, Carbohydrates

The objective of this is for the students to be able to name the six groups and know how many of each group should be eaten each day.