Health Education - 3rd Grade
Lesson Plans

Strand 5 : NUTRITION (N)

Students will learn to make healthy nutritional choices and identify factors that influence food choices.

Standard 3.N.1:

Demonstrate healthy behaviors to maintain or improve personal nutrition, fitness, and oral health including encouraging healthy food behavior and physical activity.

• EDU lesson plan
  In this lesson we will talk about why it is important to be healthy. We will use lots of pictures and class participation.
• Nutrition
  This is an interdisciplinary unit for Grade 3 on Nutrition. This lesson will help students better understand the benefits of eating nutritiously and ways they can eat healthier. Students will record their daily food intake and create a bar graph. We will discuss the consequences of poor nutrition in various cultures of the world. Students will learn various nutritional terms.

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