Food Pyramid Tag

Food Pyramid TagBy: Emma and Brooke

Standards• Grade level: 3-5• Duration: 30-50

minutes

• INTASC Standard: 5• National Health

Education Standard: 3• Indiana Health and

Wellness Education Standard: 3

Objective• Students will be able to locate food on the food pyramid. This

will allow them to understand which foods to eat everyday that will help them maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Equipment/Materials• Open space• 4 blank food pyramid charts• Laminate pictures of food that represent each food group• Poly spots/tape• Two colored pennies

Preparation • 4 equal groups• Separate food pyramids for each group• Center of gym/open space, create a large circle with tape• Food pictures in circle• Place each chart on outside of gym/open space

Activity• Choose 2 taggers to wear pennies• On signal, students from each of the groups will run to center

and pick up a food picture to take back• Don’t get tagged!• Hand over food item if tagged to tagger • Tagger puts them back in center• During activity, whistle will sound to have everyone freeze to

do a different locomotor skill/activity when whistle sounds again

• Game is over when one team finishes pyramid

Assessment• Bring class together to review completed charts. Quiz the

students on additional foods that can fit on the chart.

Accommodations• Shorten the distance from charts to circle to make it easier • Increase the number of taggers to make it harder• Safety concerns: Running into one another, tripping and or

slipping. Make sure there is enough room

References• http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?

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