April Todd

April 16, 2016

PED 105-201

Fitness and Nutrition Lesson Plan: Preschool

1) Objectives/Learning outcomes:
Students will be able to know what foods are healthy for their body.
Students will be able to categorize healthy foods and non-healthy foods in
separate bins.
Students will be able to play a game that enhances their ability to recognize
healthy/non-healthy foods and perform a variety of exercises.
2) Materials or Equipment required:
Book- Eating the Alphabet
Variety of play foods from the play kitchen (ex. fruits, meats, breads etc.)
An area rug
Four separate rolled up pieces of paper
My Plate Worksheet
Pencils
3) Procedures:
During circle time, while the children are sitting on the rug I will mention that we
will be talking about nutrition and explain to the children what nutrition means
and how helpful nutrition is for our bodies.
After I explain nutrition, I will read the children a book called Eating the
Alphabet, and continue with the rest of our circle time.
When circle time is finished I will explain to the children that we will be playing
an inside game called Couch Potato.
I will pick four random children that will be the taggers, each child will have a
rolled piece of paper and the taggers will pretend their rolled paper is a remote.
Before the children are allowed to handle the rolled piece of paper, I will explain
to them if they dont use the rolls correctly that they will sit out of the game.
The taggers will hop, skip, walk, or leap to tag children with their remote.
Once a student has been tagged by a remote they have to sit on the couch (an
area rug in the room) and stretch out on the rug like they are watching television.
For the children that have been tagged by the remote to get back in the game,
another child has to retrieve a piece of food from the kitchen and give it to the
child on the rug.
Once the child gets the food while they are on the couch, they have to name
which food group their food belongs to. When they answer their question, I or my
aide will decide if the students answer is correct.
After answering the correct food group, the student that brought the couch
potato the food has to choose an exercise that the couch potato has to perform in
able to get off the couch and resume playing in the game.
When there is no more food in the kitchen the remaining people that are on the
couch will be the next taggers for the next round.

April Todd
April 16, 2016
PED 105-201

4) Class organization:
While I read the Eating the Alphabet book the children will be seated on the rug
as a class.
Before the game begins, the tables and chairs will have to be pushed to the sides
of the room and will be marked as a No Zone so the children will not go near
the tables and chairs while playing Couch Potato.
When we play the Couch Potato game only four children at a time will be the
taggers while the rest of the class is running away from them.
After the children have played a few rounds of Couch Potato everyone will sit
down at the tables and wait for the next set of directions.
5) Evaluation:
After the children have completed a few rounds of Couch Potato the children
will calm down and go to the tables to drink some water.
When everyone is finished drinking their water, I will pass out pencils and the My
Plate Worksheet.
The children will write their name at the top of the Nutrition Matching Worksheet,
I will read the directions, and the children will draw a line from a food to the
correct food group to test if they learned which foods are healthy and not healthy
for their bodies.
6) References or Resources needed:
References:
o Couch potato/ nutrition tag. (2015). Retrieved April 16, 2016, from PE
Central website:
http://www.pecentral.org/LessonIdeas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=13269
1#.VxKV59QrLIU
o Ehlert, L. (2006). Eating the alphabet: Fruits and vegetables from A to Z.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
o My plate worksheet- sorting. (n.d.). Retrieved May 2, 2016, from Have
Fun Teaching website:
http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/worksheets/food/foodgroups/match-food-groups.pdf
7) Modifications:
If a child would not be able to run around or be a tagger they could sit or stand,
on the rug that was designated to be the couch, and assist the children that were
tagged to name the food group their food is in.