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Healthful Living Education — Kindergarten

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. Recognize the categories of My Pyramid.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

MyPyramid: Eat a variety of foods
In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 1.1
Foods and their packaging come in many different shapes. In this kindergarten lesson plan from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, students learn about the food groups found in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPyramid and look for foods, packaging, and cooking utensils shaped like squares and rectangles.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living and Mathematics)

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)
Provided by: Illuminations
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