Exploring MyPlate with Professor Popcorn Grade 2: Enjoying Food Grade 2: Lesson 1 (2:1) MyPlate Objectives Upon completion of Lesson 1, youth will: 1. State that we need healthy foods and physical activity to be healthy and grow. 2. Identify MyPlate and name the five food groups. 3. Classify foods as coming from a plant or animal source. 4. Name two ways to be physically active. 5. State why it is important to wash hands before touching or eating food. 6. Demonstrate recommended steps in handwashing. KCAS Health, Nutrition 2.31, 2.3 Health, Psychomotor Skills 2.31, 2.35 Health, Safety 2.31, 5.4 Display board Visual packet for Grade 2, Lesson 1 (2:1) Copies of prelesson evaluation (Lesson/Activity 1) *Use approved EFNEP evaluation tools Spray vegetable oil and ground cinnamon (Lesson/Activity 7) Copies of postlesson evaluation (Lesson/Activity 9) *Use approved EFNEP evaluation tools Tasting Party supplies (Lesson/Activity 10) Copies of recipes (Lesson/Activity 10) Copies of take-home handouts: Parent Letter, Lesson 1 MyPlate Poster Evaluation Questions Addressed in this Lesson: #4 Circle when you should wash your hands before cooking or eating? Pictures include: combing hair, tying shoes, petting a dog, coughing, or sneezing #5 What is a physical activity? Circle the activities that are physical activities. Pictures include: computer, walking, swinging, riding a bike, watching TV
1. Prelesson Evaluation Tools (Use only EFNEP approved evaluation tools) 2. Interest Approach Ask, Can you name one food that you have eaten today? Then ask for a description of that food color, taste, size, shape, etc. 3. MyPlate (For background information, visit www.choosemyplate.gov) Scientists have invented a way to help us remember foods that are healthy for us to eat. It is called MyPlate. Professor Popcorn is going to help us explore MyPlate and learn how to make healthy food choices. Explain that there will be a tasting party in every lesson to help us learn about enjoying different types of foods. Illustrated talk: Use Visuals 2:1A and 2:1B. Professor Popcorn has found that we need food from many different groups of food. He also learned that we need to be active. (Note: If the children learned about this in first grade, questions can be asked to determine how much they might remember and how much might be new information.) Each food group on MyPlate has its own color, because each group is important. There are a variety of colors in MyPlate to show that we need to eat a variety of foods each day. Let s look at the food groups: Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Dairy, and Protein Foods. Foods can be grouped in many ways. Some ways are by colors, shapes, sizes, smells, tastes, where they come from anything they all have in common. 4. Plant or Animal One way to group foods is by whether the food is from a plant or animal. Most of the food groups have sources that are either plant or animal. One group has foods from both sources. Use Visual 2:1C. Where do you think the food groups fit? Plant or animal? Which group includes foods from both plants and animals? Name some foods that might fit in each of these groups. 2.1 Approved EFNEP youth evaluation tool. 2:1A Professor Popcorn 2:1B MyPlate 2:1C Plant or Animal? Plant Animal Grains Dairy Fruits Protein Foods Vegetables
5. Healthy Food + Physical Activity = A Healthy Person Both physical activity (exercise) and rest are important for a healthy body. Remember, Professor Popcorn reminds us to be active. Illustrated talk: Ask, Why should we be physically active? Use Visual 2:1D to show some of the answers to that question. Keep heart strong and healthy. Maintain strong muscles. Improve our overall health. What types of activities do you like to do? Use Visual 2:1E to show various types of activities. Have you tried any of these? Is there something you would like to try that you haven t done yet? 6. Physical Activity Activity: Wiggles Jog in place while doing the following activities: 1. On teacher s signal, the children begin to wiggle their fingers. 2. Then their fingers and wrists. 3. Then their fingers, wrists, and forearms. 4. Then their fingers, wrists, forearms, and elbows. 5. Then their fingers, wrists, forearms, elbows, and shoulders. 6. Then their fingers, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, and rib cage. 7. Then their fingers, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, rib cage, and hips. 8. Then their fingers, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, rib cage, hips, and knees. 9. Then their fingers, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, rib cage, hips, knees, and head. Variations: 1. Start from toes and work your way up (toes, knees, hips, etc.). 2. Repeat activity without jogging as cool down. (Source: The Energizers, developed by East Carolina University in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Be Active NC, and NC Healthy Schools.) 2:1D Be Healthy Healthy food + Healthy activity = Healthy person Heart Muscles Overall health 2:1E Physical Activity Playing Bicycling Dancing Skateboarding Baseball Running Swimming Soccer Basketball Jumping rope Walking Rollerblading
7. Food Safety Activity (For background information, see Food Safety Concepts in the Introductory Materials.) Professor Popcorn has found some rules for keeping food safe. They are called the Fight BAC! Rules. Ask children if they remember the four rules, or state them as new. Use Visual 2:1F to explain the rules, emphasizing that handwashing is part of the clean rule. Ask, When should people wash their hands? (Before eating. After using the bathroom. After playing with a pet. Before touching food. After sneezing or coughing.) Activity: Handwashing Technique (Depending on the size of the group, you may want to leave this idea with the teachers to do on their own). Line the children up and have them place their hands out, palm side up. Walk down the row and spray their hands with spray vegetable oil. Have the children rub their hands together. Have someone come behind you and sprinkle cinnamon on their hands. Have them rub their hands again. Send the children to the restroom and have them wash their hands as they always do. Explain that germs stay on their hands like the oil and cinnamon. If their hands are washed correctly, they won t feel oily or smell like cinnamon. Remind them that they should wash their hands for 20 seconds, singing a song like Happy Birthday while they wash. 2:1F Fight BAC! Rules Clean Separate Cook Chill Spray vegetable oil and ground cinnamon 8. Let s Review Ask the children to: State why we need healthy foods and physical activity. Identify MyPlate and name the five food groups. Classify foods as coming from a plant or animal source. Name two ways to be physically active. State why it is important to wash hands before touching or eating food. Demonstrate recommended steps in handwashing. 9. Postlesson Evaluation Tools (Use only EFNEP approved evaluation tools) 2.1 Approved EFNEP youth evaluation tool.
10. Snack Tasting Party MyPlate Sampler Peanut Faces Snack Mix Apple Merry Go Round 11. Take Home Parent Letter, Lesson 1 MyPlate Recipes Take-home handouts Parent Letter, Lesson 1 Adapted by Texas A & M AgriLife Extension from original work: Frischie, S. (1993). Switzer, B. (2002). Vandergraff, D., & Coleman, G. (2006). Exploring My Pyramid with Professor Popcorn, Purdue University Extension/Consumer and Family Sciences/4-H Youth Development. Adapted with permission for use in Kentucky, from adapted materials: Scott, A. (2012). Exploring MyPlate with Professor Popcorn, Texas A & M AgriLife Extension. Brooke Howard-Jenkins, M.S. Nutrition Education Program Curriculum Coordinator Educational programs of Kentucky Cooperative Extension serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability or national origin.