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Healthful Living Education — Grade 2

Goal 4, Objective 4.01

Goal 4

The learner will apply knowledge and behavior self management skills to areas of nutrition and physical activity for healthy growth, development, and maintenance.

Objective 4.01

Identify the amount of food from each food group of My Pyramid needed each day to achieve and maintain good health.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Cloudy with a chance of...what?
Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 Healthful Living Education, English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
By BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe.
M & M cafe
Students will be divided into small groups and be required to come up with two balanced meals and one unbalanced meal using breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Healthful Living Education, and Mathematics)
By Barbara Money.

Lesson plans on the web

Can you picture it?
Students collect data about favorite vegetables, record the data in a pictograph, and then interpret this representation. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Healthful Living Education and Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
A meal map
Students create and use maps as ways of showing information and using geometric concepts, spatial visualization, spatial memory, and other spatial relationships. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K and 2 Healthful Living Education)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
My body helps me get food
This Science NetLinks lesson helps students learn that some parts of their body help to keep their body nourished with food. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K and 2 Healthful Living Education)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sorting foods
Students visit a website to play a game related to the food pyramid and sort foods using the categories of the food pyramid. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K and 2 Healthful Living Education and Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics