Food is My Superpower | Nutrition Unit | 4 Lesson Plans

What we eat influences who we become and we want to become our best selves. Eating healthy foods helps us to improve our mood, energy, and thinking. Let’s become better learners and people when we fuel and nourish our bodies with good food. 

Grade Level: K-2

Lesson Plan Durations: 30 mins each + 10 minute extension activities (optional)

Lessons:

• Lesson Plan 1: Introducing Food Groups
• Lesson Plan 2: Eat the Rainbow
• Lesson Plan 3: A Garden in My Belly
• Lesson Plan 4: Food Fuels My Brain

Learning outcomes:

It is expected that students will: 

• Recognize that healthy foods give people energy and help them grow, learn, and play. 
• Identify and explore a variety of foods and describe how they contribute to health.
• Demonstrate an understanding of which foods fuel them and which foods don’t.
• Recognize that fruits and vegetables give people energy and help them grow
• Identify a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables 
• Demonstrate an understanding of ways to incorporate these colorful carbohydrates into their daily diet 
• Recognize what foods improve the garden in their belly and what foods hurt it
• Identify what the gut microbiome is and how it contributes to their overall health
• Demonstrate an understanding of what foods help their gut and what foods hurt it
• Recognize that they have the power to improve their mood, thinking, and ability to learn by what they put in their mouth
• Identify what foods fuel their brain and contribute to their overall health 
• Demonstrate an understanding of what foods help them become better learners and what foods hinder them

Bundle includes: 

• All Food is My Superpower lesson plans and accompanying printable material

Required materials (not included):

Introducing Food Groups

• My SuperHero Foods by Haley Scheich & Dr. Tarek Pacha (A reading of the book can be found for free on YouTube - link included)

Eat the Rainbow

• My Magical Foods by Becky Cummings (A reading of the book can be found for free on YouTube - link included)
• I Can Eat A Rainbow by Olena Rose (A reading of the book can be found for free on YouTube - link included)

A Garden in My Belly

• A Garden In My Belly by Masha D’Yans (A reading of the book can be found for free on YouTube - link included)