Healthy Eating | Food Groups Lesson Plans and Assessment Task

Teach your Healthy Eating curriculum with the Health Heroes! Get your students excited about healthy eating with this unit which includes everything you need to teach and assess a nutrition unit on Healthy Eating. This is based on Canada's Food Guide, which aligns with the Ontario Curriculum for grade 1 and grade 2. There are 11 easy-to-follow lessons, worksheets and an assessment task and rubric, too.

THIS RESOURCE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT CANADA'S FOOD GUIDE UPDATES. Please open the preview to see the unit in detail.

This resource is perfect for:

✔Grade 1 or Grade 2 teachers, including those teaching a Grade 1/2 split class.

✔Canadian teachers teaching the healthy eating part of the Health curriculum.

✔Teachers who want to SAVE TIME with ready to teach lesson plans included.

✔Teachers who want to simplify assessment for reporting.

Purchase this unit as part of a BUNDLE for additional savings. In the Bundle, you will get

• This Healthy Eating unit
• Additional food cards,
• Everything you need for 4 different games/activities to review healthy eating.

Are you a Planning Time teacher who teaches Grade 1 - 3? Check out this unit which covers expectations for all three grades:

Combined Grade Unit for Healthy Eating - Grade 1, 2, 3

Included in this unit are:

⭐Curriculum expectations for most Canadian Provinces (Quebec, New Brunswick, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut are not included)

⭐11 lessons to address healthy bodies and healthy eating

⭐24 worksheets

⭐1 assessment task with rubric

⭐3 Food Group Posters + Junk Food Poster

⭐3 Food Group picture cards

These are the lessons/activities included.

✅How can I be healthy?

✅Why do I need to make healthy choices?

✅Food = Energy

✅Introducing Foods - an open sort

✅Food pictures

✅Food Group Posters

✅Introducing Canada's Food Guide

✅I'm a Food Sorting Superhero

✅Food Group Booklet pages

✅Other components of the new Guide - Eating with Others

✅Sometimes Foods – What are they?

✅What is a Balanced Meal?

✅Combination Foods

✅Snacking

✅What’s In Your Lunch?

✅Planning a Meal – Assessment Task

✅Planning a Meal Rubric

A US edition can be found here:

Healthy Eating - US Edition

A Third Grade version is available here - suited for Grade 2/3 or Grade 3

Healthy Eating Unit with Rubric and Lessons - Canadian Grade 3

Tie your Health Unit to Media Literacy and Oral Language with this mini-unit which includes an assessment task and rubric:

Media Literacy - Design a Cereal Box

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