This document outlines a unit plan for a 3rd grade physical education class to teach healthy eating habits over the course of one week. The plan includes daily activities such as a teacher presentation on the food groups, having students keep a food log, analyzing nutrition facts of snacks, creating a "My Plate" diagram, and a game that incorporates physical activity and food learning. Various teaching methods and technologies will be used including videos, journals, diagrams, games, and student presentations. The goal is for students to understand and be able to categorize healthy and unhealthy foods with 100% accuracy by the end of the week.

1. Healthy Eating Habits
CI 350 Unit Plan
Alex Church

2. Analyze the Learner
• General: 3rd Grade Physical Education class, 23
students, 12 girls, 13 boys, (17 Caucasian, 3
Black, 2 Hispanic, and 1 Asian American), 1
student identifies with ADHD.
• Learning Competencies: Students should have a
basic understanding of basic foods/ingredients.
• Learning styles: Students are either visual,
auditory, or hands-on learners.

3. Objective
• Students will analyze, explain, categorize, and
differ between healthy and unhealthy foods,
through the use of videos, journaling, diagrams
and charts, games, and presentations by the end
of one week with 100% accuracy.

4. Day by Day Breakdown
• Day 1: Class Discussion on “The 5 Healthy Food Groups”
Teacher led presentation and discussion on healthy foods
and their groups, watch video on “My Plate”
• Day 2: Have students make a food log of what they eat the
rest of the week.
• Day 3: Students will bring in a snack/food from home and
discuss Nutrition Facts in that item.
• Day 4: Students will make their own “My Plate” and
draw/label healthy foods in each category.
• Day 5: Students will play an “active academics” game,
where they perform physical activity while learning healthy
foods.

5. Use of Technology
• A smartboard and a computer will be used for a
Powerpoint presentation and to present graphs/charts.
• Arts and crafts materials will be used for students to
make their own Food Pyrmaids.
• Food Journals will be made using notecards and key
rings, provided by the instructor.
• Students will bring in their own food items simply for
show and use, the teacher can provide extra if
necessary.

6. Works Cited
• Editors of FDA Website. "How to Understand and Use
the Nutrition Facts Label." U.S. Food and Drug
Administration. U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, 30 Nov. 2015. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.
• Editors of USDA MyPlate. "Choose MyPlate." Choose
MyPlate. United States Department of Agriculture, n.d.
Web. 09 Feb. 2016.
• Levering, Christine. "PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical
Education." PE Central: What Works in Physical
Education. PE Central, 25 June 2015. Web. 09 Feb.
2016.