# Lesson 148: Healthy eating habits

🔬 SCIENCE (40 Lessons) • 🟣 D. Our Body and Health

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## Objective

I can name healthy foods like fruits and vegetables, talk about drinking water, and choose healthy snacks that help my body grow and have energy.

## Materials

- Pictures or real examples of fruits and vegetables
- Pictures of simple meals and snacks (healthy and less healthy)
- Empty plate or paper plate for food sorting activity
- Crayons or markers in many colours
- Notebook or worksheet for meal drawings

## Mini-lesson — Healthy eating habits

Food gives our body energy to move, play, and learn. It also helps us grow and stay healthy.

Different kinds of foods

- Fruits (like apples, bananas, and oranges) help keep us strong and give us vitamins.
- Vegetables (like carrots, broccoli, and peas) help our body stay healthy inside.
- Grains (like bread, rice, and pasta) give us energy.
- Proteins (like beans, eggs, and fish) help build our muscles.

What is a healthy meal?

- A healthy meal has different kinds of foods, not only one thing.
- Try to have some fruit or vegetables on your plate.
- Drink water with meals instead of lots of sweet drinks.

Healthy snacks

- Good snack ideas: fruit, cut vegetables, yogurt, or a small handful of nuts (if safe).
- Less healthy if we eat them a lot: chips, candy, and very sugary drinks.
- It is okay to have a sweet treat sometimes, but not all day.

Drinking water

- Our body needs water every day.
- Water helps our blood move and our brain think.
- When we feel thirsty, it is time to drink water.

Healthy eating means making good choices most of the time so our body has energy to run, play, and learn.

Picture strip: A simple balanced plate

Balanced plate

Drink water often

## Guided Practice — Build a healthy plate

You will design a healthy plate with different foods and talk about why they are good for you.

1. Draw a big plate: On your paper, draw a big circle for a plate. Divide it into three or four parts.
2. Add fruits and vegetables: In one part, draw some fruits. In another part, draw some vegetables.
3. Add grains and protein: Draw foods like bread, rice, pasta, beans, eggs, or fish in other parts of your plate.
4. Add a drink: Draw a glass of water next to your plate.
5. Label your foods: Write short labels such as "apple", "carrot", "rice", or "beans".
6. Talk about your plate: Say which foods are fruits, which are vegetables, which give energy, and which help your muscles.
7. Compare plates: If you can, compare with someone else. What healthy foods did they choose?
8. Use the tracing pad: Choose words like fruit, vegetable, water, healthy, or snack and trace them. Say a sentence such as "Fruit is a healthy snack."

Tracing Pad
Lines
Trace
Pen

## Practice 1 — Sort snacks: healthy or not?

Sort snack ideas into "Healthy snack" and "Not so healthy snack". Explain why.

1. Draw two boxes on your paper. Label one "Healthy snack" and the other "Not so healthy snack".
2. In the healthy box, draw or write snacks like apple slices, carrot sticks, plain yogurt, or a banana.
3. In the not so healthy box, add snacks like big candy bar, large bag of chips, or very sugary drink.
4. Talk about which snacks you could eat most days and which ones should be only sometimes.
5. Circle one healthy snack you want to try this week.

## Practice 2 — My breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Think about your meals and add healthy foods to each one.

1. Fold your page into three parts and label them: "Breakfast", "Lunch", and "Dinner".
2. Under Breakfast, draw or write what you might eat, such as fruit, bread, or milk. Check that you have at least one healthy food.
3. Under Lunch, add foods like sandwich, salad, vegetable sticks, or water.
4. Under Dinner, include foods such as rice or pasta, vegetables, and beans, eggs, or fish.
5. For each meal, point to your drawing and say one sentence, such as "My lunch has vegetables to help me stay healthy."

## Practice 3 — Food choice stories

Listen to each short food story and choose the healthier option.

1. A child is thirsty after playing outside. They can choose a fizzy sugary drink or a glass of water. Which drink is healthier? Why?
2. A child is hungry between lunch and dinner. They can choose a small bowl of fruit or a large bag of chips. Which snack would you pick for a healthy body?
3. For breakfast, a child can choose sugary cake or wholegrain toast with fruit. Which one gives better energy for school?
4. At a party, there are vegetables with dip and also a lot of candy. What is one healthy thing the child can put on their plate?
5. Make your own food choice story. Draw two choices, circle the healthier one, and tell why it is better.

## Quick Check — Healthy eating habits

Answer each question about healthy eating. Think about foods that help your body grow and feel good.

1) Why do we need to eat food?

Only to have something to do. To give our body energy and help it grow. To make us never sleep.
Food gives us energy and helps our body grow and stay healthy.

2) Which food is a fruit?

Bread. Cheese. Banana.
A banana is a fruit.

3) Which food is a vegetable?

Carrot. Biscuit. Ice cream.
A carrot is a vegetable.

4) Which drink is usually the healthiest choice?

Fizzy sugary drink. Water. A big cup of melted candy.
Water is the healthiest drink most of the time.

5) Which snack is healthier?

A very large bag of chips. A big bowl of candy. An apple and a few carrot sticks.
Fruit and vegetables are healthier snacks than lots of chips or candy.

6) What do fruits and vegetables help with?

They give vitamins and help our body stay healthy. They make us never need to sleep. They turn us into robots.
Fruits and vegetables give vitamins that help our body stay healthy.

7) A child is very thirsty after playing. What is a good choice?

A big bag of salty chips. A glass of water. A bowl of sugar.
Water is the best drink when we are thirsty.

8) Which list shows mostly healthy foods?

Candy, fizzy drink, big bag of chips. Cake, ice cream, sweet cereal. Apples, carrots, beans, rice.
Apples, carrots, beans, and rice are mostly healthy foods.

9) Which sentence is true about sugary treats?

It is okay to have them sometimes, but not all day. We must eat only candy to be healthy. Sugary treats are the only food we need.
Sugary treats are for sometimes. We need many other foods to be healthy.

10) Which picture would show a balanced plate?

A plate with only sweets. A plate with some vegetables, some grains, and some protein. A plate with only crisps.
A balanced plate has different types of food, not only one thing.

11) Which breakfast choice is healthier?

A big piece of candy and a fizzy drink. Only a packet of crisps. Wholegrain toast, a piece of fruit, and water or milk.
Toast, fruit, and water or milk make a healthier breakfast.

12) Which snack will help you play for longer?

A banana and some nuts (if safe). A spoon of sugar. Only air.
A banana and nuts give energy to play for longer.

13) A child says, "I drink water with my lunch most days." This is a healthy habit because…

Water makes us more thirsty. Water helps our body work well without extra sugar. Water turns lunch into ice cream.
Drinking water helps our body work well and does not add lots of sugar.

14) Which choice shows a healthy eating habit?

Eating fruits and vegetables most days. Eating only sweets all day. Skipping all meals.
Eating fruits and vegetables most days is a healthy habit.

15) Why is it important to learn about healthy eating?

So we can feel tired and weak. So we never eat again. So we can make good choices that help our body grow and stay strong.
Knowing about healthy eating helps us choose foods that keep our body strong.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can name examples of healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, and water. Student can describe what a balanced plate might look like with different food groups. Student can choose healthier snacks in simple food choice stories and explain why. Student can talk about why too many sugary treats are not good for the body. Student uses words like healthy, fruit, vegetable, water, snack, and energy correctly in short sentences.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can choose healthy foods and explain why they are good for my body. 🙂 I know some healthy foods but want more practice choosing them. 😅 Healthy eating habits are still a bit tricky to remember.

#### Next time I will practise…

Adding fruits or vegetables to my meals Drinking water instead of sugary drinks Choosing a healthy snack during the day
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