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

Explore a variety of foods and beverages for good health, including unfamiliar and culturally diverse foods.

Resources aligned to this objective

Thanksgiving story, Stone Soup
This lesson is for K–5 Exceptional Children who are mild to moderately disabled. This lesson will incorporate listening, daily living, fine motor, and augmentive communication skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Healthful Living Education)
By Christina Pond and Sarah Boling.
To eat or not to eat
After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will sort the foods the caterpillar ate by foods they need or don't need for their body.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Healthful Living Education, Social Studies, and Mathematics)
By Karlyn Sugg.

Lesson plans on the web

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