Healthy Foods Help Me Grow Lesson Analysis

Lesson Plan Critique:
Healthful Foods Help Me Grow Health education is important to have on a daily schedule and creating lessons to support it is imperative. The lesson that I have chosen to critique is “Healthful Foods Help Me Grow” for Kindergarten grade level. I have chosen this lesson because it is a lesson that would work great for student’s in my classroom. I teach a 4th through 6th grade autism class and most of my students are low functioning so this lesson would be perfect for them to understand the importance of healthy foods and how it affects their growth. The goals for this lesson are for students to understand the importance of nutrition and health. In this lesson, I would cut out pictures from magazines and cut out foods that they think are healthy and not healthy. Talking about the differences of the foods and the effects they may have will help students understand the difference between healthy eating and not healthy eating. Explaining to students the ingredients and nutrients that foods have and what they can substitute to eat healthy will help them. I would then hand out plates to students and have them complete a paper that will have healthy foods and not healthy food. Students …show more content…
The lesson teaches students the importance of eating a healthy diet and what non-healthy foods can do to the human body. It also teaches them about their diet and health and the changes they can make in their lives to live a healthy life style. Integrating multicultural concepts and ideas allows students to understand other cultures and learn more about them. Step by step directions are provided in the lesson and it is easy to read and follow. It also provided guided practice that could be used and assessments that could be done to evaluate students on attaining the goal. This lesson has many benefits that will support student’s healthy life