3.Lesson plan-balanced nutrition L1

1. ‘STAY 3E – Stay Eco-friendly, Entrepreneurial, European.
Providing practical solutions for effective teaching and enjoyable learning
at primary level´
LESSON PLAN
Lesson objectives
- to understand the importance of fruit and vegetables in maintaining a healthy body;
- to acquire new knowledge necessary for staying in good health and forming basic food
hygiene skills;
- to develop a healthy lifestyle and an adequate behaviour for consuming healthy food;
- to learn certain rules that need to be obeyed during meal times and to understand why they
need to be obeyed;
- to understand the necesity of a balanced diet;
- to name food items that people should eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner;
- to speak about the pyramid of healthy eating;
Lesson plan no Country Romania
Course / subject ‘Stay 3E healthy cooking and eating’
Topic Balanced nutrition/Healthy Eating
Lesson title What do we eat? When do we eat?
Level /Age Level 1 Lesson duration 90 minutes

2. Procedure
PART 1
The teacher explains why having a healthy diet is important and why we should eat as
many fruit and vegetables (to have a high energy level during play time). Throughout
the lesson the students will learn about the healthy food choices, but also about what
food should be avoided.
• The teacher asks pupils the questions:
1. What do we need to do to stay healthy?
2. What hygiene rules should we respect?
3. What does healthy eating mean?
 With the help of these guiding questions, discussions based on an image depicting
different food items take place. The title of the new lesson is announced - What do we
eat? When do we eat? as well as the lesson’s objectives.
 Students ask each other questions:
1. Which of these food items should we eat daily?
2. Is it more important to consume fruit and vegetables or meat for a healthy diet?
3. Are more vitamins found in fruit or in vegetables?
 The teacher shows the students the Food Pyramid.

3.  The students answer the teacher’s questions:
- What food items do we have at the base of the pyramid, and when should we eat
them?
- Which foods can we eat daily?
- Which food items should we eat rarely, because they are not good for our health?
- Which of these types of food contain the most vitamins?
- Which hygiene rules should we follow before and after a meal?
PART 2
The teacher explains why food is arranged in this manner in the food pyramid, and she also
refers to its importance and necessity. The students receive an envelope with some cut-outs
on which the three main meals of the day are written. They are asked to arrange the food
items according to the pyramid of food. Then the students make a drawing of food they
should eat in order to be healthy .
At the end of the lesson, a dentist explains after-meal dental hygiene and its necessity.

5. Materials
Drawings of food (meat, vegetables, fruit, grain), projector;
Posters with the food pyramid, worksheets, flipchart, coloured crayons, teeth model
Reference
„Traista cu sănătate- Comportamentul alimentar sănătos la copii”, V. Mocanu, Ed. „Gr. T.
Popa”, U.M.F., Iași
„Educaţie pentru sănătate”-Editura Adan, D. Agrigoroaie şi N. Mircea
Teacher - Marta Răstoacă
Class 4 F