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Healthful Living Education — Grade 4

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 plan healthy meals and snacks that emphasize the principles of My Pyramid.

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.
Food choice in our everyday lives
Focuses on everyday foods and how these foods relate to the food pyramid. Students will recognize food vocabulary in the target language (Spanish) and will make healthy food choices by creating thinking maps, a school menu in the target language, and exploring food choices from around the world.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages and Healthful Living Education)
By Gina Benson and Laura Epting.
Spreadsheets for dinner
Students will identify spreadsheet terms, create a spreadsheet about nutritional content of foods, and add the columns of the spreadsheet.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living Education and Computer Technology Skills)
By Laurie Myers.

Lesson plans on the web

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
Healthy eating
Third in an eight-part series. Students collect data about the food knowledge of class members. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living Education and Mathematics)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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 the best chip?
In this lesson, from Illuminations, students use data analysis to seek answers to the types of questions often posed by consumer agencies and people who work in sales and marketing. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics and Healthful Living Education)
Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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