LESSON PLAN

Lesson Plan - Good Eating Habits

Lesson Plan - Good Eating Habits

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to develop three lesson plans related to the Healthy and Balanced Living Curriculum Framework, Comprehensive School Health Education and Comprehensive Physical Education which can be used for the purpose of increasing the awareness of good eating habits. The lesson plans are mainly related to teaching the parents about the benefits of good eating habits.

Lesson Plan 1:

Given below is the first lesson plan which has been established for the purpose of increasing parent's awareness about the good eating habits.

Standard:

Using the slides and presentation for increasing information

Use of peers for information

Parent's participation in the awareness plan

Identify Key Objectives -

The main objective of this lesson plan is to increase the learning about the junk food and the effect of junk food on the health of children

In order to increase parent's and student's awareness about junk food, a drama will be presented in which there will be acting like Junk Food.

Identify Materials Needed -

The Hairy Dieters: How to Love Food and Lose Weight, Hairy Bikers, 2012.

Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free by Joel Fuhrman

Identify Key Vocabulary Words -

Fiction - Fiction is something which has been imagined

Fast Food - A food which is fast to get prepared

Junk Food - A junk food is considered to be a high calorie food which has very low nutrition.

Identify Instructional Procedures -

The characters will be developed with the help of different materials showing the junk food.

The junk food jack introduction will be made to the students. Then the characters will start talking like the Junk Food Jack. The characters will show that when a student will be fed with the junk food, he will love it. At the same time, when he will be fed with the healthy food, he will start hating it.

Then the Healthy Harry will be introduced to the students. Thus, the Healthy Harry will communicate the benefits of the healthy food like the fruits and vegetables and provide the introduction of a food guide to the students. This way it would be very beneficial for the students and the parents to have complete knowledge and awareness about the negative impact of junk food and the information about the positive food.

The students will also be provided the opportunity to act as the volunteers. This way they will be asked to give an expression of their opinions of the love of good food. The Healthy Harry will communicate the benefits of healthy eating.

At the end of the program, the Healthy Harry will be delivering the healthy food to the students. The toothbrushes and toothpastes will also be distributed to the students.

Specify the technology you or the students will use during the whole group lesson or during the extension activities -

The complete lesson plan will be done with the help of a drama to ...