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Healthful Living Education — Grade 3

Goal 4, Objective 4.04

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 4.04

Demonstrate the ability to select a nutritious breakfast and describe the importance of eating breakfast daily.

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.
Fast food frolics
Students will research nutritional guides from local fast food restaurants. Based on this research, students will compare menus for nutritional values and create healthy and unhealthy meal advertisement posters.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Healthful Living Education, and Mathematics)
By Lisa Pastor.

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
Good food, good health
Students use Internet resources to explore ways in which food provides energy and materials for their bodies. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Healthful Living Education)
Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Hey, mom! What's for breakfast?
Students work in cooperative groups to learn about food use throughout the world. They will discuss causes and cures of world hunger and use map skills to investigate the production and distribution of food worldwide. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Healthful Living Education and Social Studies)
Provider: National Council on Economic Education
What is your favorite?
Fourth in an eight-part series. Students make human line plots and circle graphs, then draw them on paper and use a website to generate them. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Healthful Living Education and Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics