Healthy Eating: a nutrition & food groups pack with activities, posters, & MORE!

*UPDATED 2019 - updated to align with Canada's newly released food guide

*UPDATED 2018 - from 65 to 95 PAGES...now includes more options to suit the terminology of your country's food guide. Specifically it teaches to Canada's Food Guide and the US "Choose My Plate" guide, AS WELL as additional options for other countries or simply more general lessons*

This pack includes just about EVERYTHING you'll need to teach and assess a healthy eating unit, and everything your students will need to practice and demonstrate their understanding. It includes posters, anchor chart ideas and lessons, worksheets, activities, and assessment pages.

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INCLUDED:

* Food Category Picture Sort Activity instruction page - you can use the following resource as an anchor chart/lesson to introduce food groups and healthy eating, as a pocket chart activity, or as a hands-on sorting centre activity. All images of food items are real photographs, not clipart, and each food item is labeled with the proper name.

* Food Category Picture Sort mats (10 pages)

* Anchor Chart Lesson or Pocket Chart Activity instruction page

* Title Cards (2 pages) - to use as anchor chart headings or as headings for a pocket chart sorting activity

* Food Picture Cards for all food groups/categories (9 pages)

* Healthy Eating Worksheets instruction page

Healthy Eating Worksheets:

* "Colour by Food Group" - students colour images of food items according to their food group

* "Healthy vs. Unhealthy" - students determine whether a food item is healthy or unhealthy

* "Grocery List" - students create their own healthy grocery list using the food groups

* "Food Group Sort" (2 pages) - students cut out images of food items and glue them beside the appropriate food group

* "Fruits & Veggies!" (2 pages) - students draw and label fruits and veggies that they like, dislike, and would like to try (2 options available for differentiation)

* "Let's Go Shopping!" - students cut images of food items out of a local grocery store flyer and glue them according to food group

* "_____'s Healthy Lunchbox "(3 pages) - students get to create their own lunch box by decorating the front and drawing/labeling a healthy lunch on the inside (2 inner lunch box templates included for differentiation)

* "Rainbow Foods" - students draw/label healthy foods in all the colours of the rainbow

* "Healthy Living" (2 pages) - writing prompt ("Why do people need to eat healthy foods? What do healthy foods do for our bodies?")

* My Food Group Booklet instruction page - students create a food group booklet (2 title page options included) where they draw/label some of the healthy foods they enjoy in each of the food groups

* "My Food Group Booklet" activity (7 pages) - 2 title page options, fruits & vegetables page, grain products page, milk and alternatives page, meat and alternatives page, treats page

* My Book of Balanced Meals instruction page - students create a balanced meal booklet (2 title page options included) where they draw/label a healthy balanced meal for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks

* "My Book of Balanced Meals" (6 pages) -2 title page options, breakfast template, lunch template, dinner template, snack template

* Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light Foods: POSTERS instruction page

* "Red Light Foods" poster - explanation and examples of red light foods

* "Yellow Light Foods" poster - explanation and examples of yellow light foods

* "Green Light Foods" poster - explanation and examples of green light foods

* "Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light Foods" poster - brief explanation and examples for each colour food

* Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light Foods: WORKSHEETS instruction page

* "Red Light, Yellow Light, and Green Light Foods" (3 pages) - students either draw/label their own examples of foods, OR they cut & paste images of food items into the correct category

* "Stop, Slow Down, GO!" - students colour images of food items either red, yellow, or green

Thank you for your support! I hope you and your students enjoy this little unit :)