LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

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 4.02

Summarize the benefits of healthy eating.

Resources aligned to this objective

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.
Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism
This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living Education, and Mathematics)
By Gloria Simmons.

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