Unit 4: Food and Health 5th grade

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Unit 4 Food and Health5th grade
ACTIVITY

• Name Ivonne Hidalgo
• Professor Mº Edith Larenas
• Subject Recursos didácticos

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Introduction
Description These activities are related to
learning food vocabulary and associated them in
their respective food groups through both
individually and in group activities which
facilitate the capacity of students to develop
communicative skills. Duration 90 minutes
Objectives Students will be able to Learn to
spell different words and associated them with
their respective images. Name and categorize
foods into the correct food groups. Select a
variety of food items from one food group and
determine whether they are nutritious choices.
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Pre-activity

• The teacher introduce food vocabulary
  essential to understand the basic meaning of the
  food pyramid. Ex. Words chicken, bread, orange,
  grapes, beans, fish, apple, peppers, potatoes,
  eggs, squash, broccoli, strawberries, corn,
  mushrooms, etc.
• Individual activity.
• Activity outcome
• The students will have 4 worksheets of both
  matching and spelling activities that help them
  to internalize the new vocabulary and will guide
  him to the next activity.

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• Time of the activity 15 20 minutes.
• Materials the worksheet will be distributed
  by the teacher, pencil.

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While activity

• The teacher introduce the five main food
  groups, those are Grain, fruits and vegetables,
  dairy, meat and proteins, and fats, oils and
  sweets.

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• The teacher opens a class discussion on eating
  habits.
• Examples of questions
• What are your favorite foods?
• Which of these five types of foods should be
  eaten less and why?
• This activity will help the teacher to keep
  students' attention and to know if they're
  understanding the new terms

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• Group activity no more than 3 students per
  group.
• Time of the activity 35 minutes.
• Activity Synopsis
• A fun game of Bingo provides students
  practice the names and food categories into the
  Five Food Groups.
• Activity Outcome
• Students will be able to
• Name and categorize foods into the correct
  food groups

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• Materials and Advance Preparation
• Bingo card - 1 per student
• Food Models that will be brought by the teacher
• A bag or large basket
• Place Food Models in bag or basket
• Pencils

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• What To Do
• Distribute one Bingo Card per student.
• Randomly select a Food Model from the bag or
  basket.
• Ask students to identify the food.
• Have participants write the name of the food in
  one of the squares for that food group on their
  cards. For example, if an apple is shown,
  students write apple' in one of the Fruits Group
  squares. Inventive spelling is acceptable.Note
  The food group icon on the back of the food model
  indicates to which food group it belongs. 
• The first player to fill five squares
  horizontally, vertically or diagonally wins.
• As a check, have the winner read off the name in
  the winning food/food group squares.

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Post-activity

• Group activity no more than 3 students per
  group.
• Time of the activity 35 minutes.
• Activity Guess who
• In relation to the vocabulary learn in this
  class each student group could select the most
  unusual fruit, vegetable, meat or some food of
  the five main groups from their list of
  vocabulary and perform a Guess what I am? Style
  presentation with question and participation from
  the class.

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• After they have thought their food and their
  main characteristics to describe, one
  representative of each group will have to present
  in front of the class and all the students will
  play the game.

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CONCLUSION

• At the end of class students will be able to
  recognize different types of food and place them
  in their respective food group.
• Through these activities the students were
  able to put into practice their knowledge and to
  internalize the information in a positive way.

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Sources

• http//esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgrou
  ps_food.htm
• http//school.fueluptoplay60.com/tools/nutrition-e
  ducation/view.php?id24278479
• http//englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Beginning20Mat
  ching20-20Food.pdf
• http//englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/spelling20by2
  0picture20-20food20part201.pdf
• http//www.readyed.com.au/healthy/the_food_groups.
  htm
• http//abcteach.com/directory/powerpoint/powerpoin
  t_presentations_with_audio/