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ACTIVITY EatHealthy 4 I eat (and drink) the best foods for my body every day. Get to Know the Food Groups Objective SUBJECTS: GRADE LEVEL: Students will classify Health Intermediate foods into food groups Science TIME: and identify the nutrients 60 minutes Physical Education and health benefits that come from eating foods GROUPING STRUCTURE: English Language Arts – Whole and small group/ listening, writing, and speaking from the five food groups. independent/partner Materials/Preparation Opening the Activity 5 Classroom Materials • Crayons, colored pencils, and/ 1. Call attention to the uncovered side of the or markers MyPlate poster (make sure only the side of • Blank paper (one sheet/ student) the poster with MyPlate is visible). • Two small bean bags (the size that fits into the palm of your hand) 2. Introduce the Healthy Steps for Healthy • Chart paper (one piece) Lives MyPlate poster. 5 Provided in the Healthy • The poster is a tool to help us learn how to think, Steps for Healthy Lives Kit eat, and move healthy. Healthy Steps • MyPlate poster for Healthy Lives Think Eat Move • There are pictures, symbols, and messages that What’s Healthy Healthy Healthy Before you eat, think about what goes You can build a healthy plate Be physically active your way. your on your plate or in your cup or bowl. by choosing foods from the five Aim to be active for 60 minutes food groups. Healthy steps to build a healthy plate: or more every day: • Make half your plate Know the food groups, know yourself, • Choose moderate and plate? and know your plate: vigorous activities • Food Cards fruits and vegetables • Switch to skim or 1% milk Vegetables ½ cup on • Make at least half your • Remember to eat red, orange grains whole and dark green vegetables • Eat 2¹⁄2 cups every day tell us about nutrition (which means eating • Vary your protein food choices Fruits ½ cup • Use fruits as snacks, salads or desserts • Eat 1¹⁄2 cups every day Dairy 1 cup Foods to eat less • Low-fat or fat-free dairy foods have Know your limits with added sugar, the same amount of calcium and other salt, and solid fats. healthy) and physical activity (which means nutrients, but less fat and calories • Use the nutrition facts label and ingredient list to be • Get 2¹⁄2 cups every day a nutrition detective 5 Choose Grains water over 1 oz. sugary drinks • Choose foods that name a whole grain first on the ingredients list Eat the right amount • Eat 6 ounces every day of food for you Before the The right amount of food for you depends on your age and physical activity level. • Check the website, moving healthy). Protein 3 oz. ChooseMyPlate.gov • Twice a week, make seafood the protein on your plate • Eat 5 ounces every day Activity * Daily intake recommendations based on a 1,800 calorie pattern. • Post poster • Copy Student Activity NAME DATE StudentStudent ActivityActivity SheetSheet 21 MyPlate Quizzer Sheet 2 on page 22 (one 1 Cut along the green dotted line. 3 Record questions and answers. 2 Write your name on the back of the 4 Listen to your teacher for directions on how quizzer. to fold your paper to make your quizzer. Fruits and Question 7: 7Dairy 8 Vegetables copy/student) Question 8: 1 2 • Answer 8: Set up for the Food Answer 1: Question 4: Answer 7: Answer 4: Question 1: How to make a simple beanbag Group Toss Across (see Question 2: Answer 3: Answer 6: Answer 2: Question 3: Answer 5: directions on page 17) 3 4 • Fill a small plastic sandwich or snack baggie with about one Grains Protein Foods Question 5: - If weather permits, 5Question 6: 6 cup of beans (rice also works) and close the baggie. Student Activity Sheet 2 page 22 Healthyfor Steps MyPlate Quizzer Healthy Lives consider playing the • Put the baggie inside of a paper lunch bag. game outdoors • Fold the lunch bag down until it is close to the baggie of beans and staple shut. Healthy Steps Teacher’s Guide page 16 for is part of Grades 3-6 Healthy Lives • For now, part of the poster is covered ACTIVITY because we are going to play a game to see if you might already know some of the EatHealthy 4 I eat (and drink) the best information on the other side of the poster. foods for my body every day. 3. Call attention to the MyPlate icon. Get to Know the • One of the important symbols on the Food Groups continued poster is the MyPlate icon. • MyPlate illustrates the five food groups using something we see at mealtimes, a 4. Review the five food groups. place setting. • The food groups are represented by • MyPlate tells us, “Before you eat, think different colored portions on the plate and about what and how much food goes on in the cup. your plate or in your cup or bowl.” • In the cup: the blue portion is for Dairy. • MyPlate shows us how to build a healthy plate by choosing foods from the five food • On the plate: orange is for Grains; green is groups. for Vegetables, red is for Fruits, and purple is for Protein. • MyPlate reminds us that we need to eat foods from all food groups every day. 5. Tell students that they’re going to play a game called Food Group Toss Across. It is a game that will help them try to remember which foods belong in each of the food groups. Food Group Toss Across Directions 1. Form two even teams (in the case of an uneven 8. The object of the game is to get five cards number of students in the class, one student can flipped over (face down) in a row (either diag- take an extra turn). onally, horizontally, or vertically). Once a team 2. Place two groups of 25 food cards on the floor connects a row of food cards, they get a point. with the pictures facing up. Arrange the cards Flip those cards back over and start trying to into a 5x5 grid. Each team of students should get another row. stand around the edge of their grid forming a 9. Teacher/judge will keep a tally chart with points semi-circle. on the board. 3. Give a beanbag to each team. 10. Continue to take turns between the teams, with 4. Decide which team will go first. students rotating turns in order through their 5. Take turns (one student from one team at a time) own teams until every team member has gone tossing the beanbag onto the grid. twice. 6. Correctly name the food group pictured on the 11. After every student has had two turns, the card where the beanbag lands. team with the most points wins. 7. Teacher/judge checks to see if the student is 12. Team Help – each team has two Team Helps per correct. game, this is an option students can take when • If the student is correct, pick up the beanbag they are unsure of their answer, they can ask and flip the card over (face down), and pro- for support from their team for consensus before ceed with Team B’s turn. giving their final answer. • If the student is incorrect, then student picks 13. Teams may not connect the exact same row of up the beanbag and passes it to the next student cards more than once. on the team, and proceed with Team B’s turn. Healthyfor Steps is part of Teacher’s Guide page 17 Healthy Lives Grades 3-6 6. Explain the directions for Food Group ACTIVITY Toss Across on page 17. Divide the class EatHealthy 4 evenly into two teams and play Food Group I eat (and drink) the best Toss Across. foods for my body every day. Get to Know the 7. Explain that different health benefits Food Groups come from different foods (i.e., strong continued bones). What do healthy foods have that provide us with health benefits? The answer is “nutrients.” 12. Call attention to the picture of the 8. Explain the meaning of the word Nutrition Facts Label on the poster. nutrient and how it relates to other Another key reminder on the poster is the words that have to do with eating picture of the nutrition facts label. This can healthy (i.e., nutrition and nutritious). help us in a few ways. Some foods contain 9. Explain that foods have been put in greater amounts of nutrients than others. food groups based on the nutrients Some foods contain extra sugars and solid they provide (i.e., Dairy Foods are fats. In some cases MyPlate encourages us grouped together because the foods to eat foods with specific ingredients (i.e., in the group provide the nutrient, whole grains). calcium). Tell students that you will be 13. Call attention to the picture of discussing the food groups and nutrients in ChooseMyPlate.gov and discuss the greater detail. “Eat the right amount of food for you” message. Leading the Activity 10. Give each student a blank piece of paper. Fold the paper in half creating two columns. Number the left column Calcium Fiber Carbohydrates Protein Iron Potassium Vitamins Minerals of their papers from one to eight. As you are sharing information, students should Grains a a a a a record eight facts they think are important Dairy a a a a a to remember. They should record the facts Vegetables a a a a in the left column (leaving the right column Fruits a a a a blank). Protein a a a a 11.