Healthy Food Choices

Unit of 1 Lesson
Grade Levels: 
K
1
2
Subjects: 
Health and PE
Social Studies
Issue Area: 
Hunger (poverty)
Focus Question 

Why is it important to practice healthy living habits and advocate for healthy living practices in a community?

Unit Overview 

Students learn about food choices as needs or wants. They read a book and discuss healthy choices. They discuss why is not always good to have everything you want. They discuss the foods we need to have healthy bodies and minds. 

Service Experience 
Students create healthy food choice plates and share them to encourage healthy eating. Students may choose to share a healthy recipe to donate a cookbook or host a healthy food or recipe drive. 
Lessons in This Unit 
Unit: 
Healthy Food Choices
Lesson 1 of 1
Grades: 
K
1
2

Students learn about food choices as needs or wants. They read a book and discuss healthy choices. They discuss why is not always good to have everything you want. They discuss the foods we need to have healthy bodies and minds. Students create healthy food choice plates and share them to encourage healthy eating. Students may choose to share a healthy recipe to donate a cookbook or host a healthy food or recipe drive.