PHE – Nutrition Lesson Plan

Grade: 6 Subject: PHE Unit: Nutrition 03

Title: Nutrition - Fats Duration: 30m

Rationale
This lesson is builds on the previous lesson by discussing and exploring the role of fat in
our diet. It focuses on four types of fats – omega-3, unsaturated, saturated, and trans
fat. The purpose of the lesson is to educate students on the benefits of fat and dispel
the long associated notion that fat is bad for you.

Curriculum Connections
Big Ideas:

Healthy choices influence our

physical, emotional, and mental
well-being.

Curricular Competencies:
 Explore and plan food choices to support personal health and well-being

Learning Intentions
By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
 Understand that not all fat is bad for you and that some fat is essential for a healthy
diet.

Prerequisite Concepts and Skills

It’s helpful if Ss retain some info from the previous lesson about the role of
carbohydrates.

Materials and Resources (References) Required

 Activity sheet – Alberta Health

Differentiated Instruction (Accommodations)

The lesson utilizes group work as well as visuals to help students connect ideas.

Assessment and Evaluation

Learning Intention Assessment

Understand that not all fat is bad for you  Observation during class discussions,
gaining feedback to check for
and that some fat is essential for a
understanding
healthy diet.
 Activity sheet

Lesson Activities

Class Management
Teacher Activities Student Activities Pacing
Considerations
Intro Hand back previous Participate in Ensure Ss have their 5
activity sheets about discussion and file the duotangs and a pencil
carbohydrates. sheet handed back
Review the lesson. in their duotang
Body Bring up the power Participate in group 7
point slide on fat on discussion and fill out
the projector. Have Ss info on a scrap piece
in groups draw up of paper.
some foods that they
know are high in fat.
Go over results with Ss
after.

Go over the four types Listen to instructions

of fat on the on how to play the
overhead and let Ss game.
know about healthy
fats. Inform them how 15
the myth of fat being
bad was something
perpetuated by the
sugar industry
decades ago.

Hand out group labels With their piece of Ensure all Ss have a
and have Ss find their the puzzle in hand, piece of the puzzle and
matching partner. find other people are aware of what to
Once found, Ss will who have a do.
complete what matching piece.
they’ve made on their
activity sheet that
prompts them to write
about healthy and
unhealthy fats while
citing examples.
Closure Let Ss know they will Finish up writing and 5
have time to finish up file sheet away if not
the sheet in the next finished, hand in if
 class. Have all works done.
put back in their PHE
duotangs.

Reflections
“All lessons we do will have strong points and parts we would do differently if we were to do the
lesson again. As part of your professional growth and development as a teacher, you should jot
down a couple of points for improvement at the end of a lesson. This self-assessment will allow
you to develop exponentially faster than if you were to do no reflection.”