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