PHED 4650: HEALTH LESSON PLAN
Teacher Education Candidate:
Brian Vee Smith
Supervising Teacher:
Susan Duke
School: Brooks Elementary School
Block No.: 1
UWG Instructor/Supervisor:
Eileen Muzio
Date of Implemented Lesson Plan: 4/12/2012
Subject: Health /Nutrition
Specific Lesson Topic: Brave For Breakfast
Grade Level: 1st Grade
Stage 1 The Desired Results
GA Health Standard(s)
HE1.7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing
behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
a. Practice health behaviors to maintain personal health and wellness.
b. Model behaviors that reduce health risks.
Specific Learning Objective(s)
The student will be able to identify healthy foods in a balanced breakfast.
The student will model a healthy breakfast.
Stage 2 Assessment Evidence
Assessment(s) Strategy (tied to
objective(s) above)
The student will be assessed according to a point system. Students must be
able to complete the MyPlate graphics worksheet.
Stage 3 Learning Plans
Materials Needed:
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Sequence of Teacher Actions:
*Motivation/Attention Getter
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Tie to Previous Learning
*Significant Teacher Actions
to Introduce and Guide
Lesson
Book entitled Healthy Eating (Now I Know) by Melvin Berger
MyPlate blank coloring activity sheet (1/Student)
MyPlate graphics example sheet (1/Student)
MyPyramid forKids poster or tri-fold poster (Food pyramid display).
MyPyramid for Kids Classroom Materials, Go Fish Cards
The instructing teacher will:
 Introduce the lesson by describing some favorite breakfast foods, and
then, have the students share with the class some of their favorite
breakfast foods.
 Inquire of the students why is breakfast important? (Essen. Question)
 Briefly recall to the students how important healthy foods are, and ask
them enthusiastically if they want to practice healthy breakfast habits.
The assistant teacher will hand out both MyPlate sheets to each students seat,
and the instructor will:
 Instruct the students to come to the reading area appropriately.
 Read from the book, Healthy Eating (Now I Know), and ask the
students “what, when, where, and how” questions during the reading.
 Use the MyPyramid for Kids Poster and the MyPlate graphics sheet to
discuss the healthy food groups with students. Then, students should
label the food groups onto the blank MyPlate activity sheet.
(The idea is that the blank sheet is the student’s breakfast plate, and the
student will write examples of healthy breakfast foods into the correct food
group listed.)
 Choose to either use the MyPyramid Go Fish Cards as examples to
follow, or allow the students to paste them to the activity sheet.
Modifications to the Original
Lesson Plan
*Teacher’s revisions to
referenced lesson plan
Sequence of Student Actions:
*Student Engagement During
Lesson – Learning Strategies
* Student Demonstration of
Meeting Objective(s)
Teacher Action:
*Lesson Closure/WrapUp/Transition
Adaptations for Exceptional
Students (Consider possible
student modifications unique to
the lesson)
Related Activities/Extensions:
(Include website references &
possible community resources,
guest presentations or field trips,
if applicable)
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The book, Green Eggs and Ham, along with its worksheet was removed.
School Breakfast Menu is if applicable (use as an example for students).
Energizer: “The Morning Routine” was added.
The book, Healthy Eating (Now I Know) was added.
The blank coloring activity sheet, ChooseMyPlate, was added.
The student will:
 Respond to the favorite breakfast foods or to the reading questions.
 Be actively engaged in lesson energizer.
 Learn of healthy breakfast foods and the food groups.
 Label his/her breakfast plate and give examples of healthy foods.
The teacher will challenge the student to go home and eat healthy breakfast
meals before school starts, and share the MyPlate graphics sheet, as well as
the activity sheet, to their parents/guardians.
The assistant teacher should work individually with any students with
disabilities, but if that is not possible, then the exceptional students should
begin work immediately on their breakfast plate and the teacher should work
individually with that student to make sure that the needs are met.
 Healthy Eating (Now I Know) by Melvin Berger
 ChooseMyPlate.gov Lesson Materials can be found:
www.choosemyplate.gov/downloads/MyPlate/ColoringSheetBlank.pdf
www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/MyPlate/GraphicsSlick.pdf
www.mypyramid.gov/tips_resources/printmaterials.html
www.fns.usda.gov/tn/resources/mypyramidclassroom.html
Food for Thought: Making the Grade through Healthful Eating K‐5
Curriculum Resources for Teachers- www.nutritionnc.com
 Energizer- “The Morning Routine” can be found, among others:
http://www.emc.cmich.edu/BrainBreaks/default.htm
Integration or Connection to
Other Content Areas:
Observations/Comments:
Lesson Plan Agenda:
1. Lesson Introduction- Essential Question
2. Read Book- Healthy Eating
4. Discuss Healthy Breakfast foods
5. Activity Sheets
This lesson plan is referenced by: www.nutritionnc.com
http://www.nutritionnc.com/ResourcesForSchools/pdf/brainFuel/EducationalResources/Curricula/Less
on%20Plans/BBF_Grade1_BraveforBreakfast_Complete.pdf