All about Nutrition

NUTRITION THEMATIC UNIT (3rd-4th grade)

LESSON   PLAN   IDEAS

1.   Use flashcards-realia-plastic toy foods- playdough  to teach the food items vocabulary (+Food Words Handout)

2.  Make a food wheel-healthy-unhealthy habits

3.  Make a food Pyramid

4.  Create a mini book with favourite food items (food alphabet)

5.  Make a colourful flap book with words used in cooking procedures

6.  Sing food songs or read some ‘’Tasty Poems’’

Let's make some pizza

            Five Crispy Pancakes

  Ten Fat Sausages

   Pea Soup

7.  Show kids a cookery book (imperative)

8.  Discuss food label info

9.  Make a shopping list , a fridge or a minimarket store and role play shopping

10. Perform a short play in a restaurant setting (Arthur- Mary and Bruce)

11.  Read story books:

         ‘’ The Stone soup’’
        ‘’The little red Hen’’
        ’’ One Hungry cat
    ’Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’’
‘’Goldilocks and the three bears’’
        ‘’The Hungry Caterpillar’’
      Mr Wolf and the three Bears
  Who’s   been eating my porridge?
        Brown Bear gets in shape
        Not now Mrs Wolf
‘’The Giant Jam sandwich’’
    ‘’Cloudy with a chance of meatballs’’

12. Make a nutrition  lapbook LB

Healthy Habits

15. On a sunny day have a picnic

16. On a cloudy day do some puzzles and crosswords about food

17. Solve some food riddles

18. Work on some food worksheets (www.bogglesworld.com)

19. Watch a you tube recipe

20. Role play: Pretend you are a cook showing a recipe on TV

21. Make a recipe (tortilla sandwich)

22. Learn some food proverbs

25. Play memory- bingo with food pics or words

26. Teach countables-uncountables

27. Create a food ad

28. Have a tasting contest

29. Plan and cook a meal for your family

30. Have a party at school