1. Creating a Mind Map with Healthy Food
Grade 1 Health Unit 1
Food, Habits, and Healthy Alternatives

2. Healthy Living In Grade 1, the units in Health are:
Food, Habits, and Healthy Alternatives
Winter Holidays
We Stay Safe
Understanding Human Development

3. Unit 1 (September-November) Food, Habits, and Healthy Alternatives
Food, Food, Food
Connecting with Books
Creating a Mind Map with Healthy Food
Creative Discussions
Making a Concept Map

4. 2. Creating a Mind Map with Healthy Food
explain why people need food to have healthy bodies
describe how the food groups can lead to healthy choices
recognize cues to hunger, thirst and the feeling of fullness

5. What have you been eating?
Think about a meal that you have had at home and tell me how many food groups are represented.

6. What have you been eating?
How can we use Canada’s Food Guide to make healthy food choices?

7. What have you been eating?
Let’s review: name the four food groups and examples of foods in each group.
Food Group
Examples

8. When to eat? When not to eat?
What is hunger?
What is thirst?
What does hunger feel like?
What does thirst feel like?
What should you do if you feel hungry or thirsty?
What happens if you eat or drink too much?
Given all of this, what should we listen to?

9. Bread, rice, cereal, bagel Apples, pears, carrots, peas
Grain Products
Fruits and Vegetables
Healthy Food Choices
Milk and Alternatives
Meat and Alternatives
Milk, yogurt, cheese
Chicken, fish, nuts, eggs

10. Colouring Maze
Colour your way to the fridge using foods in Canada’s Food Guide

11. What’s your “perfect meal”?
Design your own meal on the back of the sheet.
Be sure to include a food from each of the four food groups.