Unit:
Nutrition/Math, Third Grade
Title of Lesson:
Out of this Whirled Smoothie
Standard:
Health Education Kindergarten through grade three
Expectation 1: Students demonstrate ways in which they can
enhance and maintain their health and well-being.
Food Choices:
-Making healthy food choices.
-Grouping foods in many different ways-for example, by
taste, smell, feel, color, sound, origin (plant or animal), or
category.
Math
3.3.1 Compare fractions represented by drawings or
concrete materials to show equivalency and to add and
subtract simple fractions in context.
Objective:
Students will be able to compare fractions and write fractions
in numbers and words. Students will know MyPyramid and
understand its importance. Students will know the difference
between a healthy and unhealthy snack and the nutritional
benefits of the ingredients of the recipe.
Materials:
 Out of this Whirled Smoothie recipe, worksheet, and
overhead
 MyPyramid worksheet, overhead, and fruit cut-outs
 Fraction diagrams
 Scissors and glue sticks
 Out of this Whirled Smoothie ingredients
 Cups, spoons, napkins, hand wipes, and blender
 Optional: laminated fraction diagrams and food cards
Procedures:
1. Introduction: (10 minutes)
Introduce the lesson by passing out MyPyramid worksheet
and discussing it. Ask students if they have ever seen
MyPyramid before, if they know what it does for us, why it is
important, etc. Ask students if they ate breakfast, what they
ate, whether or not it is considered healthy, where those
food items belong in MyPyramid and the importance of
eating breakfast. Describe the relationship between nutrition
and physical activity.
2. Activity: (15 minutes)
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Pass out the Out of this Whirled Smoothie worksheet.
Read the caption next to the “fractions apple” picture.
As a whole class, work on the example and questions
1-4 using the overhead. Use the laminated fraction
diagrams to ask additional questions.
Have students work on the “Practice” questions as the
teacher prepares the smoothies.
Correct the practice questions as a whole class using
the overhead.
Pass out scissors and glue sticks.
3. Concluding Activity: (15 minutes)
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Have students work on the blank MyPyramid
worksheet as the teacher passes out the smoothies,
napkins, spoons, and hand-wipes. Students are to
cut out the pictures of fruit and glue them in the
proper area of MyPyramid.
Taste the smoothie and discuss whether or not this is
a healthy snack that the kids can make at home.
Review what food groups are represented in the
recipe and the nutritional benefits of each ingredient
(use the food cards).
Assessment:
Collect student worksheets and assess answers. Assess
the students’ understanding of nutrition and fractions by
reviewing their worksheets and evaluating the class
discussions. Evaluate the lesson by using the student
participation survey.
Adapted from:
“5 A Day” Every Day Lots of Ways