Grade Level: Grade 2 Subjects: Health, Technology, Math

       1. Reproduce and/or label the food pyramid.

       2. Describe what a food label is telling the consumer.

       3. Conduct a search using yahooligans, and others, for food pyramid and food label sites, and then open and use at least one.

       4. With the help of the Power Point presentation, design a healthy meal.

Activities:

       1. As homework, work with the family to make a weekly grocery shopping list with the use of a checklist and pyramid information

       2. Prepare one healthy meal chosen by a majority of the class, in the classroom, with the help of adults. Use proper table manners during the meal.

Duration of Lesson: The lesson should take one week -  an hour a day four days, and two or three hours durin the culminating activity on Friday.

Materials: food with food labels; art supplies; checklist; poster board; journals; food, kitchen utensils, silver and tableware

Technology Tools/Courseware: Computer, presentation software, Internet, printer, communicator board (see modifications)
 

Teacher Notes:
 

• Will need a parent letter to explain the lesson, and what is expected of the family, and to ask for volunteers
• Will need food with food labels
• Will need to bookmark yahooligans, food pyramid, and food label  sites for the children to use
• Will need to prepare to show Power Point using the converter and large TV's
• Will need a healthy food checklist to help family prepare shopping list as homework
• Will need to acquire materials for meal, and obtain food
• Will need to remind them of their safety rules when preparing food
• Will need to prepare a poster chart of a blank food pyramid
• Will need a time schedule for the use of the computer
• Will need to schedule volunteers to help with the cooking on Friday

Day One:  Send home parent letter (include use of computer, requests for food with food labels, explanation of homework, and standards covered-this will have to be individually teacher generated to fit that class). Show Power Point and generate discussion showing understanding of slides. Fill in, with class, teacher-made food pyramid chart, with  healthy choices for each category.  Keep the food pyramid slide from Power Point presentation up, and have children cut construction paper into proper "puzzle" shapes to make a food pyramid, construct a food pyramid, and then label. This will go into Student Work Portfolio.

Day Two: Demonstrate computer search of yahooligans , food pyramid, and food label sites - assign times to use these throughout the week. Show Power Point  again, and have the class design a healthy meal together on a chart. Post in the room. Each child then designs his/her own healthy meal by drawing, writing, or "picture pasting" on a paper plate. These go under the posted class chart. Children help each other if they finish early.

Day Three: Send home homework to make a weekly shopping list using the Health Choices Shopping List. Also send home, for parents, information printed from the life clinic site. Teach the class the basics on reading food labels, using food labels on food that parents have sent in. Do the section in student health book on Food Labels (pages and section will depend on particular district's text adoption.)

Day Four: Finish previous three days' work, and put in student work portfolios. Vote on healthy meal choice from individual meal plans prepared on Day Two, and list needed food and materials for cooking. Write directions and sequencing for next day's cooking activities with students who have finished all other assignments. Post for use the next day.

Day Five: Divide into groups, according to the number of foods that need to be prepared.  Assign each group to an adult volunteer. Cook and eat meal. Turn in shopping list homework to add to work portfolio. Make sure every child has visited a computer site. Assign a journal page to write about the week's lesson.

Modifications: Use of a communicator board if needed; use of a buddy for nonreader/slow reader

Enrichment Activities:  Use the food labels for graphing and charting amounts of fat and sugar; Use lists to keep track of daily food consumption and then find caloric intake for the day; Analyze daily food consumption and sort healthy and "bad" foods.

Evaluation/Assessment:  Grades will be assigned based on participation(i.e: return of homework); correct completion of pyramids; demonstration of understanding of food labels; design of healthy meal.

State Standards:

Standard 3:  Health Behaviors (HE.S.3)
Students will:
• demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.
HE.2.3.3 demonstrate proper food handling techniques (e.g., washing apples, washing hands, using clean utensils).

Standard 4:  Culture, Media and Technology (HE.S.4)
Students will:
• analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health.
HE.2.4.4 explain how commercials influences the purchase of health related products and services.

Standard 5:  Communication (HE.S.5)
Students will:
• demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
Students will:
HE.2.5.1 practice pro-social communication skills (e.g., please and thank you).

Standard 6:  Goal Setting and Decision Making (HE.S.6)
Students will:
• demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.
HE.2.6.2 record eating and exercise habits and discuss positive and negative health behaviors.
HE.2.6.3 work with a family member to plan a family meal.
 

2nd Grade Technology Standards

Standard 5:  Technology Research Tools  (TEC.S.5)
Students will:
• use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources;
• use technology tools to process data and report results; and
• evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.

Technology Research Tools Objectives
Students will:
TEC.2.5.1 begin to locate information in a variety of developmentally appropriate technology resources (interactive books, educational software and elementary multimedia encyclopedias).
TEC.2.5.2 discuss, as a group, how the Internet and email are tools to gather and locate information.
 

2nd Grade Math Standards and Objectives

Standard 5:  Data Analysis and Probability  (MA.S.5)
Students will:

MA.2.5.3 analyze data represented on a graph using grade level appropriate questions

National Standards:

Health Standards 3rd Ed.
6. Understands essential concepts about nutrition and diet
 Level I (Grade K-2)
    1.  Classifies foods and food combinations according to the food groups

References:

a.) Resources cited:
     WV Content Standards and Objectives , inter-net sites on Food Pyramids, and Food Labels, and Nutrition

b.) Additional Resources:
   Second Grade Health Book, TE, MayoClinic.com

c.) Student Resources:
    yahooligans, surfnetkids, kidshealth, students  Second Grade Health Book
 

Author:
Colleen Ware
Hacker Valley Elementary School

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