Lesson Plan #1

Materials:

Teacher:

-play money

-real or pretend food items

Student:

- grocery list (paper and pen/pencil)

-copies of the Canada Food Guide

Actvity: Role-playing at the grocery store. Students will pirepare a list of items they normally eat, then ask for and pay for these.items. Examine the grocery lists comparing them to the Canada Food Guide daily recommended values

Steps to follow:

Teacher:

-set up a mock grocery store

-distribute play money to students

-distribute Canada Food Guides

-act as storekeeper- asking students questions and respond to their inquiries

Students:

- write a grocery list

-ask where to find cetain items

- pay for the items

-using the Guide, examine your grocery list and figure out if you can meet the daily recommended values from your list

-add to the list if necessary to have a balanced diet

 

- students are examining their list while shopping so that everyone is on-task while the teacher is talking with one or two students at a time

-as a class, discuss the role-play experience ask them to share a shopping experience

-as a class, come up with some of the items on their lists that fit in the Canada Food Guide

-choose two volunteers to write the items on the board