Lesson Plan

What's In Your Lunch Today

Mrs. Jean Allen
Kindergarten Teacher

 

 

 Subject(s): Health, Mathematics, Technology

 Grade level(s): Elementary
 		  
 

New York State Standards:

 3.1.1E (STD - Standard 3:Mathematics:Elementary:Mathematical Reasoning) Students use models facts and relationships to draw conclusions about mathematics and explain their thinking.
 2.3E (STD - Standard 3:Mathematics:Elementary:Number and Numeration) Students relate counting to grouping and to place-value.
 1.1.2E (STD - Standard 1:Personal Health and Fitness:Elementary:Health Education) Students possess basic knowledge and skills which support positive health choices and behaviors.
  1.1.3E (STD - Standard 1:Personal Health and Fitness:Elementary:Health Education) Students understand how behaviors such as food selection exercise and rest affect growth and development.
 		  
 

Abstract or goal of lesson:

Students will divide the different foods in their lunch by 3 categories: Sweet, Sour or Salty. The teacher will aid in entering the data on a chart first, and then program this data into MS Excel to make 3- dimensional colorful chart.
 

  
 

Activities:

  1. Students will divide their lunch items into 3 categories. Students buying lunch at school that day will use the menu items. Sweet, sour and salty foods will be counted and graphed on a large chart.

  2. Students count the sweet, sour or salty items in their lunches and fill in the chart using markers or crayons

  3. The teacher will key the data from the chart into Excel and create a colorful multi-dimensional chart.  Teacher may use the attached Excel spreadsheet and chart and enter new numbers for each category for the number of sweet, sour, and salty things in the students lunches on the day of the lesson.

 

  
 

Assessment Overview:

Each student can count how many sweet, sour or salty foods are in their individual lunches of the day.

Students can decide how much or less of sweet, sour or salty foods should be in their diets for a healthier lunch.
 

  
 

Criteria for mastery (or attainment) of this assessment:

Students will see the amounts of sugar and salt in their daily diets.