Detailed lesson plan: Health By: Melissa Mountfort

Year level: 3 Duration: 45 min

STRANDS
Making Responding
Students will be able to: Students will be able to:
- Identify foods that are in our regular diet - Receive and give effective feedback
- Refer to The Australian Guide to Healthy - Work collaboratively with others
Eating and identifying healthier food choices

GENERAL CAPABILITIES CROSS-CURRICULUM PRIORITIES

 Literacy  Ethical understanding  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
histories and cultures
 Numeracy  Personal and social  Asia and Australia’s engagement with
competence Asia
 ICT Competence  Intercultural understanding  Sustainability
 Critical and creative
thinking

Year 3 & 4: Health and Physical Education

Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS036)

Examining their own eating patterns by researching The Australian Guide to Healthy
Content Eating and identifying healthier food choices
Description
Achievement standard:
Students interpret health messages and discuss the influences on healthy and safe choices.
They understand the benefits of being healthy.

Introduction: 15 minutes
Introduce the topic of ‘healthy eating’. We eat different things every day and sometimes it
can be difficult to monitor what we eat. For the first activity, students will use images from a
printed sheet to cut out what they ‘often’, ‘sometimes’ and ‘rarely’ eat.
They will choose
- 5 images for the bottom
- 4 images for the middle
- 3 images for the top

Learning Learning: 10 minutes

Activities Students will come together to go through a powerpoint presentation called ‘healthy eating’.
This presentations details:
- What is healthy eating
- What should we eat
- The Australian Guide to Heathy Eating
- Understand the different types of food and how they benefit our body.

Learning: 15 minutes
 Students will have another sheet, similar to the first one. They will need to identify foods that
they should ‘often’, ‘sometimes’ and ‘rarely’ eat. They will use images to demonstrate this
knowledge.
They will choose
- 5 images for the bottom
- 4 images for the middle
- 3 images for the top

Conclusion: 5 minutes
A few students will share to the class what they have chosen to add to their pyramid and
receive feedback from the class.

Preparation:
- Worksheets
- Cut out sheets
- Powerpoint presentation

Preparation /
Equipment:
Equipment
- Projector
- Scissors
- Glue

Work sheets
Cut out
Powerpoint

Resources