3.3 What Are We Eating
“What Are We Eating?” is Lesson 3.3 of the Grow Your PALS Program Guide’s Food and Nutrition unit, a large-group lesson that teaches students to make healthy food choices using the food pyramid. Students identify locally grown fruits and vegetables, revamp restaurant menus to be healthier, and use a weekly food pyramid diary to track what they eat. It includes an interest approach, content/teaching strategies, application activities, evaluation, and reproducible student assignment and assessment sheets.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify locally grown fruits and vegetables.
- Make healthy menu choices.
- Use a food pyramid diary to track their weekly menu.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Materials
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- PALS3.3.LG.AS.A – one per student
- PALS3.3.LG.AS.B – one per student
- PALS3.3.LG.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Menus from a local restaurant
- Computer lab and Internet access
- File folders or 11" x 17" sheets of blank paper
- Writing paper
- Markers
- Pencils
- Colored pencils
- Unit
- Food and Nutrition
- Lesson Type
- Large Group
- Precepts
- G. Physical Growth — G2. Respect one's body
- Key Terms
- Healthy; Choices
- Resources
- United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. (2005). MyPyramid. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from United States Department of Agriculture website: http://www.fns.usda.gov/TN/Resources/mpk_poster2.pdf.
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.02.01.01.bCreate a balanced menu to ensure appropriate proportions of desired nutritional elements.
- FPP.04.02.02.a.Identify and describe products derived from fruits and vegetables.
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NS.K-4.6Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- NT.K-12.5Technology Research Tools.