Healthful Living Education — Grade 1

MyPyramid

In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 2.1

Eating nutritious foods and getting plenty of exercise is important for everyone. This first-grade lesson plan from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum teaches students about MyPyramid for Kids and the nutritious foods that belong in each of the six color-coded food groups.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

Healthy vs non-healthy foods

Students will use Kidspiration software to classify healthy foods and non-healthy foods during our Food Guide Pyramid unit.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and Healthful Living)

By Michele Tipton.

Family gardening in rural North Carolina

This lesson for grade one uses a series of activities related to plants and gardening to help students learn about gardening, plant life, families, and making healthy choices.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living, Science, and Social Studies)

By Penny Willard.

Resources on the web

Try for five

In this lesson, the fifth of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Food Pyramid Power,” students explore the many ways to decompose numbers and then build on their knowledge of addition and subtraction to find missing addends. They also... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

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Sorting foods

In this lesson, the first of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Food Pyramid Power,” students visit a website to play a game related to the food pyramid and sort foods using the categories of the food pyramid. They also create sets up... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Pyramid power

In this lesson, the third of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Food Pyramid Power,” students make sets of a given number, explore relationships between numbers, and write numbers that name how many elements are in a group. They make... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Eating patterns

In this lesson, the second of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Food Pyramid Power,” students sort pictures of food and create patterns. They also analyze a partner's patterns and extend those patterns. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Combining foods

In this lesson, the fourth of a six-part unit from Illuminations titled “Food Pyramid Power,” students explore addition and comparison subtraction by modeling and recording related addition and subtraction facts for a given number. The students... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living and Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations