1. Food Pyramid Tag By: Emma and Brooke

2. Standards Grade level: 3-5 Duration: 30-50 minutes INTASC Standard: 5 National Health Education Standard: 3 Indiana Health and Wellness Education Standard: 3

3. Objective Students will be able to locate food on the food pyramid. This will allow them to understand which foods to eat everyday that will help them maintain a healthy lifestyle.

4. Equipment/Materials Open space 4 blank food pyramid charts Laminate pictures of food that represent each food group Poly spots/tape Two colored pennies

5. Preparation 4 equal groups Separate food pyramids for each group Center of gym/open space, create a large circle with tape Food pictures in circle Place each chart on outside of gym/open space

6. Activity Choose 2 taggers to wear pennies On signal, students from each of the groups will run to center and pick up a food picture to take back Don’t get tagged! Hand over food item if tagged to tagger Tagger puts them back in center During activity, whistle will sound to have everyone freeze to do a different locomotor skill/activity when whistle sounds again Game is over when one team finishes pyramid

7. Assessment Bring class together to review completed charts. Quiz the students on additional foods that can fit on the chart.

8. Accommodations Shorten the distance from charts to circle to make it easier Increase the number of taggers to make it harder Safety concerns: Running into one another, tripping and or slipping. Make sure there is enough room

9. References http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=81 44#.UoK92pRNa3M