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Food Pyramid Tag. By: Emma and Brooke. Standards. Grade level: 3-5 Duration: 30-50 minutes. INTASC Standard: 5 National Health Education Standard: 3 Indiana Health and Wellness Education Standard: 3. Objective.
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Food Pyramid Tag By: Emma and Brooke
Standards • Grade level: 3-5 • Duration: 30-50 minutes • INTASC Standard: 5 • National Health Education Standard: 3 • Indiana Health and Wellness Education Standard: 3
Objective • Students will be able to locate food on the food pyramid. This will allow them to understand which foods to eat everyday that will help them maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Equipment/Materials • Open space • 4 blank food pyramid charts • Laminate pictures of food that represent each food group • Poly spots/tape • Two colored pennies
Preparation • 4 equal groups • Separate food pyramids for each group • Center of gym/open space, create a large circle with tape • Food pictures in circle • Place each chart on outside of gym/open space
Activity • Choose 2 taggers to wear pennies • On signal, students from each of the groups will run to center and pick up a food picture to take back • Don’t get tagged! • Hand over food item if tagged to tagger • Tagger puts them back in center • During activity, whistle will sound to have everyone freeze to do a different locomotor skill/activity when whistle sounds again • Game is over when one team finishes pyramid
Assessment • Bring class together to review completed charts. Quiz the students on additional foods that can fit on the chart.
Accommodations • Shorten the distance from charts to circle to make it easier • Increase the number of taggers to make it harder • Safety concerns: Running into one another, tripping and or slipping. Make sure there is enough room
References • http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=8144#.UoK92pRNa3M