Videos, games and activities to teach the food pyramid

Composed of five steps, the food pyramid graphically shows the foods and the quantities that are recommended to be consumed. Thanks to her, students learn to eat a healthy diet.

by EDUCATION 3.0

The food pyramid is the basis for having a balanced diet; a resource that minors should know to learn how to have a healthy diet. It contains foods classified into five groups depending on their composition: carbohydrates (first step of the pyramid), fruits and vegetables (second step), dairy products and nuts (third step), meat, eggs and fish (fourth step), sweets and fats (fifth step).

Depending on the level at which they are, the pyramid will indicate one frequency or another of consumption: carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables, every day; dairy, nuts, meat, eggs and fish, two or three times a week; and sweets and fats, once or twice a week and without abuse. The following resources are useful for students to discover and be aware of the need to eat a balanced diet. 

Index of contents

• 1 Game of Five a day

• 2 The diet

• 3 Didactic unit on food

• 4 Downloadable Sheets in Liveworksheets

• 5 Daydream Education The Food Pyramid - Science Poster

• 6 Good nutrition pyramid game

• 7 Henbea- Food Pyramid Game

• 8 The food pyramid/Educational/For children 

• 9 The Food Pyramid

• 10 Food pyramid

Five a day game

Are rice, meat, cheese, vegetables or a donut, among others, consumed daily, weekly or occasionally? Students will have to drag each food to the corresponding area of ​​the pyramid and will be able to check at the moment if they are correct or not: if they fail, the element will automatically return to its initial position.

The diet

This video for children talks about the food pyramid, what foods should be consumed daily, frequently or occasionally, their origin, the importance of a balanced diet, drinking water and physical exercise for health. All accompanied by explanatory images and recommendations. Finally, it includes a round of questions to know how to answer the most common doubts among students.

Didactic unit on food

The Junta de Andalucía proposes a teaching unit for students to establish the relationship between balanced nutrition and health status and to know the frequency of consumption of different groups. In addition, it includes 14 different activities related to the topic. Among them, the food wheel, a debate on school menus, the introduction to energy intake, a word search, a habit test, different riddles...

Downloadable sheets in Liveworksheets

Look at the pyramid and say if these statements are true; drag the cart only to foods that contain vitamins and minerals; select the sentences that talk about a correct relationship with food and healthy habits; Place each food in its corresponding place... These are some of the statements in these interactive and downloadable worksheets about the food pyramid.

Daydream Education The Food Pyramid - Science Poster

This educational image designed by teachers includes the basic concepts of the main food groups to help fix and remember the information in the pyramid. It consists of six steps and the recommendation of the daily quantities of the products found in each of them. It is in English and its large size (A1 850 mm x 594 mm) makes it easy for all students to read when it is hung in the classroom. 

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Good food pyramid game

The youngest has a set of stickers with food and a dice that he must roll in turns. Thus, depending on the color that appears, you must complete the pyramid with the corresponding foods: green for those that you have to eat often, yellow for those that you have to eat sometimes and red for those that you only have to try occasionally. If doubts arise, the game has an autocorrect system: you can check on the back of the food that the choice is correct if the color of the die matches the other side of the food. The goal is for the student to run out of food and complete the pyramid correctly. 

Henbea- Food Pyramid Game

Using a 46 centimeter pyramid and 26 sticker food cards, children will know the proportions that make up a balanced diet and will learn to distinguish the basic types of nutrients: antioxidants, carbohydrates, dairy products... They must place each sticker in its corresponding place. This way, they will have a poster of the food pyramid that they can always refer to.

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The food pyramid/Educational/For children 

Facundo is eating his second hamburger of the day, until Raimundo warns him that consuming that type of food on a recurring and daily basis is not healthy. With this conversation, the two protagonists of this video question what it means to have a balanced diet and how to know if a food is healthy or not. Next, Raimundo explains what the food pyramid is and each of the steps that make it up. 

The Food Pyramid

The objectives of this printable sheet are for students to learn what foods they can eat every day and which they can consume occasionally; the importance of having a healthy diet and playing sports; as well as how necessary it is to drink water. To do this, they have to cut out the 19 products on the sheet and place them on their corresponding step.

Food pyramid

Contains several interactive games based on food pyramid information. In the first of them, it is checked how much the students know about it, since they must decide if statements such as “we can eat fat every day” are false or true; The second consists of joining the main ingredient to a list of foods; while on the next page, the user must drag those that contain vitamins and minerals to a cart, select the phrases that talk about a correct diet and write the food group to which they belong.