Food Groups Unit Plan

Health Education Unit Plan

Nutrition: Food Groups/Essential Nutrients

Cari McKee

The following unit plan is nutrition. Within the unit, the students will be able to:

    • Identify the food groups
    • Create a web map of the essential nutrients
    • Create a diagram of the food groups (including examples)
    • Analyze their food intake
    • Create a healthy meal.

Unit: Nutrition; Food Groups and Essential Nutrients

Lesson: 6 lessons

Objectives: By the end of the unit the students will be able to:

    • Categorize foods into their specific food group
    • Describes what the food groups and essential nutrients are
    • Create a healthy meal for one day using all the food groups (except fats/oils)

Standards:

    • Common Core Mathematics;
      • Number and Quantity
    • Common Core English and Language Arts;
      • Reading Standards for Literature
      • Reading Standards for Informational Text