Grade Level: Kindergarten
District Health Standard: Identify Foods
Summary: The students will identify foods using the 5 food groups.
Connections McGraw-Hill Health, Chapter 5, Nutrition Lesson
11 (Food in Your Body) and Lesson 12 (Healthful Meals and Snacks)
Materials: Food items (pictures, real, or plastic) and a Venn Diagram
Technology: Internet, KidPix, Digital Camera, Lightspan
1. Show pictures or real/plastic
food Items from the fruit group. Have students identify the name of each
2. Choose 2 fruit
Items (for example apple, orange) Discuss
similarities and differences of the food Items
3. Complete a Venn Diagram of the 2 fruits.
4. Continue this lesson
using the other food groups
Art Center: Have students cut food pictures from magazines and paste onto paper plates to create a meal.
Dramatic Play Center: Set up center as a grocery store, restaurant, or fruit stand.
Students will write a grocery list. Teacher will provide poster/chart
with food pictures and words to choose from.
Use Kindergarten story to hyperlink to nutrition games.
Students will use plastic foods to sort Into groups. Students could
use a graph mat to graph food Items.
WebQuest: What Food is That?
Dole Five a Day
Healthy Kids Concentration
Let's Make Breakfast
Connected Stories or Books:
Authors: Linda Miller & Joan Boles