Have students show serving size with actual food products. Encourage students to see the correlation between eating and exercise. They also can teach their families about the Food Pyramid. They can obtain extra credit by finding the Food Pyramid on packaged foods and bringing examples to the classroom. Students with internet can do additional research and find sites that would enhance or enrich the lesson.
Students can encourage their parents to start an exercise program as a family activity.
It also gives them an opportunity to work with others and develop cooperative group skills. The lesson should help make students aware that being healthy is a life long committment that requires self-discipline. Food items to demonstrate seving sizes. Food record recording sheets. What Did You Eat Today program.