Curriculum Guidelines

The Food Pyramid: Educating Youth on Eating Healthily So That They Can Make Better Choices About What They Eat

Introduction

In this one-day lesson, student will learn about the six part of the food pyramid. By educating them about the food pyramid, it will influence them into eating healthy foods, and into eating a well-balanced meal. By educating children about the food pyramid at a young age, they will be more likely to live long and healthy lives, and develop healthy eating habits. The lesson activities presented in this are appropriate for 2nd – 4th grade children.

Learning Objectives

After completing this lesson, students will be able to:

• Recognize the different parts of the Food Pyramid
• Know the importance and health benefits of each food group
• Know severing sizes
• Construct a healthy meal

Guiding Question:

What are the different parts of the Food Pyramid? What can you do to stay healthy? Why is it important to eat healthily?

Preparing to Teach This Lesson:

Go to: http://healthyschoolluncheslwhs.blogspot.com/ and download the “Food Pyramid Lesson Plan” in the links section of the blogspot (on the left hand side). Read through the PowerPoint and be able to paraphrase certain ideas that children may not be able to understand.

Develop a Jeopardy game with each section being a section of the Food Pyramid. Or, one can download the “Food Pyramid Bingo” from http://healthyschoolluncheslwhs.blogspot.com/ . Cut out the Bingo cards, and proof read the questions. Buy material to cover the squares. Buy healthy prizes for the winners of the whichever game (apples, oranges, etc.)

Suggested Activity

The Food Pyramid

Begin by giving a brief summary of what the Food Pyramid is. Then go through the PowerPoint, explaining each part of the Food Pyramid, and the important health benefits and precautions that are in each section. The sections of the Food Pyramid are: Grains, Milk, Fruit, Vegetables, Meat and Beans, and Oils.
Then, if the class will be playing Jeopardy, set up the grid on the board. Or if the class is playing Bingo, pass out the cards and start playing.

FOOD PYRAMID LESSON PLAN ONLINE

With J Mergy's magic, our slideshow/presentation that we used at Holy Name Elementary is now up right under our mission statement.

Thanks,
LWHS Healthy School Lunches

Holy Name Elementary School

Hello again all of you Healthy Food LOVERS!

Today was not only fun, but a TRIUMPH! today we went to Holy Name Elementary School, and taught a 3rd grade class about the food pyramid, the importance of eating healthy, and played "Food Pyramid Bingo" with them. We had a blast, and we think that they did too...who knew that little kids can bring out the best in people? Well that is our update for today's scheduled activities. Next on the agenda is to collaborate with "Revolution Foods" so that we can give them our curriculum, and help to fund one of their programs that caters to young children. But right at this very second, we are starving, and are on the bus by the ocean street library...let's hope our own school has a tasty and healthy lunch waiting for us!

Until next time,
Healthy School Lunches

Holy Name Elementary

Hello Our Fellow Philanthropic Bloggers,

Sorry we havent blogged in a while, but we have been busy having discussions on race, and working on our lesson on nutrition.

Tomorrow, we are going to be going to Holy Name Elementary School to teach a 3rd grade class about the food pyramid and the importance of eating healthily. We are also going to be playing "nutrition bingo" with them. We are going to say things like "B"..."Chicken" and then ask a question about chicken that the kids would have learned from the lesson. We want to play a game with the kids because we believe that when kids have fun leanring, they pay more attention, and they will want to learn more about the subject they are learning.

I hope you are all having a great day! Wish us LUCK!!

Until the next time,
Healthy School Lunches

In class 4/21/10

So today we emailed the West Oakland Middle School with whom we were recommended by Mr. Clifford. We continued working on our presentation stuff, decided the date we are going to work on our budget and when we will meet Eva frank (next Wednesday), and continued work on our brochure and our bingo cards. We each also emailed some organizations such as Revolution Foods to see if they are interested in our curriculum.

LW Healthy School Lunches

Class 4/19/10

What we did today:

- Garrick and Tori worked on slides for meat, grains, vegetables, and fruit
- Sarah finished cutting out the 30 bingo cards
- Tianlee got confirmation to present at Holy Name Elementary, and worked on the brochure
- Still looking for an organization, might do something at West Oakland through Mr. Clifford

Team

Punchlist, Description, and More

Hey everyone,

So this is our punchlist:

Class	Homework Due for Class	In-Class Work
1 -3/23/10	Make contacts, begin research of organizations.	Show our timeline. Walk through and discussion.
2 - 3/26/10	Continue researching organizations, what they do, and what our role would be.	Share organizations and information. Decide whom we are working with. Start blog.
3 - 4/7/10	Work on blog, research for PowerPoint.	Inner-group reflection. Finalize organization/school.
4 -4/9/10	Continue work on blog.	Design PowerPoint and work on blog.
5 - 4/13/10	Work on PowerPoint. Blog work.	Whole group meeting. Work on and improve PowerPoint. Budget planning.
6 - 4/15/10	Add punchlist on blog. Individual work on PowerPoint. Blog work. Go to Holy Name Elementary and discuss proposal for presentation. Work on brochure.	Inner-group reflection and discussion on work done individually. Combine and finish PowerPoint. Finish brochure. Call/contact Revolution Foods.
7 - 4/19/10	Organization work (on/off campus)	Organization work (on/off campus)
8 - 4/21/10	Organization work (on/off campus)	Inner-group reflection. Organization work (on/off campus)
9 - 4/26/10	Organization work (on/off campus)	Organization work (on/off campus)
10 - 4/28/10	Organization work (on/off campus)	Organization work (on/off campus)
11 - 4/30/10	Organization work (on/off campus)	Inner-group reflection. Organization work (on/off campus)
12 - 5/4/10	Individual work on presentation.	Organization work (on/off campus)
13 - 5/6/10	Individual work on presentation.	Work on presentation.
14 - 5/10/10	Finish presentation work.	Meet with group to finalize presentation. Run through.
15 - 5/12/10	Presentation work if needed.	Presentation
16 - 5/14/10	Presentation work if needed.	Presentation
17 - 5/18/10	Presentation work if needed.	Presentation

We've modified and edited it a lot more in accordance with what we've been working on as well as what we want to work on in the future. The "Organization work (on/off campus)" descriptions have mostly been kept in place due to the fact that we are still trying to fit all of these pieces together. Tomorrow we will meet and discuss the work we've completed, how the interview went at Holy Name Elementary, and we will call/contact Revolution Foods. After tomorrow, we hope to have a more definite plan, though we do understand that this will be subject to change. However, we feel that by just putting something down for those days (from April 19th to May 10th) leaves room for actual presentations at schools, organization visits, etc. We also have "Inner-group reflections" appearing multiple times in our punchlist, which consist of checking in with each other regarding work success, how things are doing overall, and sort of "group bonding" as one might call it.

Along with the other self-assessment milestones of success that I think Garrick mentioned on our blog, another that is a little broad is the figuring-out aspect of how we are actually going to wisely use the 1200 dollars. While we are going to present a proposal to Ms. Frank, that whole obstacle of finding a way to use the money is, in my point of view, a goal/milestone that we hope to accomplish. Another is really the whole idea of actually working with kids. This is expressed in the timeline with possibly presenting to schools, however as things are currently variable and indefinite we hope to accomplish this as well. One thing that I had in mind when I was writing my partnership mission statement was the act of actually working with kids, because I had chosen Healthy School Lunches as my focused dilemma based largely off of that. The rest of my group expressed similar views when we first began talking about our dilemma, so I think that working with these kids is definitely a milestone of success.

Thanks,
Tori
Healthy School Lunches