1. Lesson Plan
Concept/Skill/Theme: Food and Nutrition Duration: School Day
Grade Level: Kindergarten – First Grade
Objectives-Goals: The student will…
Demonstrate knowledge base of Healthy Eating Habits
Identify different produce as well as Sometime vs. Anytime Foods
Advocate for Healthy Eating Choices Wherever and With Whomever
Next Generation Sunshine Standards: (Floridastandards.org)
HE.K.C.1.1 Recognize healthy behaviors.
HE.K.P.1.1 Identify healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal
health
HE.K.P.2.1 Help others to make positive health choices.
Concept Planning/Scaffolding:
Prepare students before hand by introducing our gardening party with an invitation that is sent home to
the parents. This will begin at home discussion of gardening and healthy foods. Then begin to slowly
identify and distinguish between foods brought from home each day for lunch. Lesson will be at the end
of the week after knowledge and concept have been frequently talked about amongst all students.
Teaching Materials and Props (including Teacher Resources:
technology being used):
Children’s Books
Assorted Vegetables Fruits (Whole) Belly Laughs by Charles Keller
Assorted Vegetables and Fruits Sliced (For “These 75 food jokes and illustrations are
Snacking) written especially for children.”
Napkins Grandpa's Garden Lunch by Judith
Index Cards Caseley
Large Poster “Take a trip down to the garden with Sarah
Vegetable Magnets and her Grandpa and learn the basics of
One 9 ounce paper cup gardening. Kids will learn about how various
Potting Soil foods grow. They will also see why "patience
Water is a virtue."
A Book of Fruit by Barbara Hirsch Lember
While most children recognize fruit in a bowl
or in a supermarket, some have never seen
fruit growing on a tree or a bush. This well-
photographed book makes the connection
between the fruit and where and how it grows
before it arrives at the supermarket. Photos of
single servings of fruit appear on pages
opposite photos of where the fruit grows.
Lesson Steps/Procedure:
1. Students will each receive a colored index card in the shape of a vegetable or fruit with a joke
from Belly Laughs book.
2. Students will gather on the reading rug where each will share their joke about food in order to
introduce our topic.
3. Students will then be addressed to explain to the class what they believe or know about healthy

2. Lesson Plan
eating habits. (Give examples of their diet)
4. Students and Teacher will identify and distinguish between “Anytime” and “Sometime” foods as
we place them on each side of the poster.
5. Teacher will bring Focus to the importance of anytime foods through explaining their benefits.
6. Then after reading Grandpa’s Garden Lunch and A Book of Fruit address where these foods
come from -process of (Farming vs. Factory) (Natural vs. Man made).
7. Teacher will then pass around seeds to view.
8. After students have seen the seeds instructor will place the seed under the soil in the cup and
water it.
9. Students will then move over to pre setup area of vegetables set in a “garden”. They are
instructed to be a farmer and “harvest” a vegetable that has grown to bring back to the reading
rug.
10. Identify each student’s choice and allow students to describe physical characteristics of each.
Then explain healthy qualities of each.
11. Students will return to their desks to enjoy sampling and talking about the tastes of different
vegetables and fruits. (Be aware of any allergies)
Adaptations (special needs, ESOL, etc.):
Index cards with larger print for visual impairment will be prepared.
Jokes may also be translated and written in English as well as foreign language.
Visuals of produce used greatly to enhance global familiarity.
Higher Order Thinking Questions:
What do you believe is an example of a Healthy Eating Habit?
What types of foods should be a part of our every day diet?( Anytime Foods)
What types of foods should be eaten on occasion? (Sometime foods)
Where do the fruits and vegetables in the grocery store come from?
How do you feel when you eat these healthy choices?
How can these foods improve our lives?
Gardner’s Intelligences Covered:
Visual- Distinguishing between Anytime and Sometime food magnets
Linguistic – Discussing Characteristics of produce
Interpersonal- Harvesting and viewing produce garden in groups
Types of Assessments:
Group Discussion
Identification of Anytime vs. Sometime Foods on Poster
Observation of Garden and Distinguishing of varying characteristics of produce

3. Lesson Plan
Follow-up Activities: Home Connection:
Students will each plant a seed in classroom -Parents will help students log their anytime and
garden. They will be labeled and monitored for sometime foods in their food journals.
growth throughout the year. -Parents will be invited to plant garden with
students and encouraged to return when possible
for students to explain the progress and different
produce being grown.
Self-Assessment and Reflection:
Adult eating habits are learned from childhood and can be the essential base that ensures a healthy
future. Most life threatening illnesses can be prevented through proper diet and exercise. Knowledge of
the importance as well as how these habits may be established is key to the success of each individual. It
is key that individual’s support and encourage each other to carry out these healthy habits on a daily
basis. Students find it very encouraging when others are eating the same items they are rather than
those bad choices being available all around them. Students must learn from a young age how
important it is to plan ahead and make a diet plan. This will ensure success even when life becomes busy
or unstructured.
http://www.schoolnutrition.org/Content.aspx?id=752
http://www.cacscw.org/downloads/Food%20and%20Garden%20Activities%20for%20Kids%205-05.pdf