Teacher: Ms.

Sharifa Pratt
Lesson number: Lesson Title: Lesson #1 Food For Thought
Grade/Subject: 4th Grade / Healthy Eating Habits
Learning Segment Essential Question:
How can we use portion sizes to help us make better choices of food?
(If this is a literacy-based lesson, please complete this box)
Central focus: To comprehend the appropriate portion size of specific foods
Essential literacy strategy: Compare and contrast
Requisite skills: Comprehending text with various types of charts
Reading and Writing connections: Children will need to be able to read from a pie chart, a
diagram and a flowchart
Content/Common Core Standard(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7

Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that
information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
Learning Objectives associated with the content standards:
Students will be able to identify words in a text with flowcharts and pie charts.
Academic Language Demands

Academic Language Supports

Vocabulary: Portion, Nutrition

Vocabulary: Size, Healthy Choice

Language function: Tier 3

Language function: Tier 3

Discourse or Syntax: Syntax

Discourse or Syntax: Syntax

Student Friendly Daily Learning Targets

Students pick a type of food and decide whether or not the food is a healthy choice
Monitoring Student Learning: Formal and Informal Assessments prior to, during & after
learning segment
Before talking about portion sizes and healthy choices, have students complete worksheet.
Worksheet will assess if students know the differences between healthy and unhealthy
choices of food.

Description of formal/ informal assessments: Both formal and informal assessments will be
taken
What is being assessed: If students know the differences between healthy and unhealthy
choices of food to eat
Assessment accommodations: Give students different choices of food (on paper). Have them
categorize each food into a healthy section or an unhealthy section
Type of feedback that will be given to students: Score how well or poorly students did on
assessment after lesson. Ask what they learned and what they will do in the future in order to
make healthy choices of food.
What students will do with the feedback: Students will begin making healthier choices of food
Instructional Resources and Materials: Printable place mat
Connection to prior academic learning and prerequisite skills: Students will compare and
contrast the portion sizes of healthy and unhealthy foods
Connections to cultural/personal/community assets: Students may discuss any cultural dishes
their families make. We will analyze the ingredients and assess whether or not it is a healthy
choice
Motivation/Hook/Anticipatory Set: (10 min) This video will begin towards the middle of the
lesson after I explain the differences between healthy and unhealthy choices of food. This
video will set up the discussion for choosing proper portion sizes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTQUH0v6no

Procedure:
Time

15min

10min

Teacher Action

Describing the differences between

healthy and unhealthy food choices

Student Action

Children will begin categorizing the foods on their

worksheet to either a healthy or unhealthy
column

To set up video for students

Students will watch video and take notes on what

they observed
Closure (5-7 min)
As a homework assignment, students will create their own healthy food plate. They will give
the portion sizes, the amount and a drink has to be included.

How students will reflect on their own learning

Students will discuss in groups the choices they made to show which foods were healthy,
which ones were unhealthy and how we can make the unhealthy choices a bit healthier.
Accommodations/Modifications to requirements in IEPs and 504 plans
Students with IEPs and 504 plans will be in a group that requires extra time spent on finding
the differences between the healthy and non healthy choices of food. Teacher or assistant
teacher will provide the extra help
Differentiation
Cut out portions of food (appropriate sizes) will be given to students that are visual learners.
These students will appropriately place the food onto the placemat to show if they understand
portion sizes as well as healthy and unhealthy choices of food.
Technology Integration to Support Learning
Portion sizes place mat will be shown on Smart Board.
Students will be able to identify with the placemat they have in front of them and the one
shown on the screen in order to place correct food portions on their mats.