SIOP
LESSON PLAN
Topic:
Nutrition
Grade:
Grade 2-3 Beginning to Intermediate ESL/ELL
Content Object:
Students can understand the food pyramid
Students can categorize food to different
group of pyramid properly.
Students know the proper servings they need
per day from different group.
Students can design a healthy meal for
themselves
Language
Object:
Students know vocabulary for food names.
Students can describe the taste of food.
Students can describe their favorite food.
Vocabulary:
Food Pyramid, bread, cereal, rice, pasta,
fruit, meat, fish, dry beans, eggs, nuts, vegetable, milk, yogurt, cheese,
fats, oils, sweets.
Materials:
Copy of food pyramid, pictures or realia of
food.
Different type of cereals, some cookies and
dice of fruit.
Blindfold, food worksheet.
Computer, pads for students.
Teacher
Activities
Ø Building Background:
-Begin the unit by discussing students’ breakfast or dinner of last
night. Write down students’ response on the blackboard.
-Give students a food list with pictures. They have to rethink what
they ate yesterday and circle the food they had on the food list. If they
cannot find the food they had, they can draw it on the blank area of the paper.
-Talk about their food preferences and review some food names they
already know.
-Introduce the
food pyramid and put them on the blackboard.
-Introduce five
groups of food in the pyramid.
-The
teacher put the food students mentioned earlier into the right food group.
Ø Links to Students’ Past
Experience:
-Introduce vocabulary for different tastes such as
bitter, sweet, sour, salty and spicy.
The teacher can use pictures of food to help students
understand each vocabulary word. Students can try to look for food that is
salty, sour, bitter, sweet or spicy.
-Invite students to talk about the taste of
their favorite food. Compare and contrast the food taste.
Ø Procedure
-Explain the foods which make up the base should be the biggest part of
a diet, and as you go up the pyramid, the amounts get smaller as the pyramid
gets skinner.
-Talking about the serving they need to get from each food group.
-
Help ELL students expand their vocabulary to include other adjectives which
describe food such
creamy, crunchy, chewy, crispy.
-
In cooperative groups have students conduct blindfolded taste tests of
different cereals. Make a
graph to indicate the students’ favorite cereal. Help
students use the previously learned vocabulary
to describe each kind of cereal.
Help them read the labels on the cereal boxes. How many calories
does each type
have? What is the percentage of sugar content? Help students distinguish which
cereals are healthy.
-Give students a blank food pyramid and students have to check the
food which they circled on the
food list and discuss which food group it
belongs to.
-Group students in four and they are going to discuss if the meal
they had yesterday reached the daily
requirement nutrition. The teacher helps
the students who have difficulties on sorting food group.
-Talk about the food group they didn’t reach the serving requirement
or over ingested and discuss
how to improve it.
-After they finished, each group share menu to the class.
Students need to match the right food with
the right food group.
