Curriculum Focus
Browse our resources by your curriculum
View Curriculum
Try our FREE Teaching Resources
Get Access

Healthy Eating Plate Craft

Healthy Eating Plate Craft
View Curriculum Codes   
Description

Help students understand the importance of balanced eating with this engaging Healthy Eating Plate Craft! Students cut out images of food and arrange them on a plate to create a well-balanced meal, learning about food groups and healthy choices in a hands-on and creative way. This activity promotes critical thinking about nutrition and is perfect for reinforcing health and wellbeing concepts in a fun and interactive manner.

Suitable for
  • Relief Teachers
  • Parents
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Class Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9HPFP06 9

Identify health symbols, messages and strategies in their community that support their health and safety

AC9HP2P06 9

Investigate a range of health messages and practices in their community and discuss their purposes

ACPPS003 8.4

Identify people and demonstrate protective behaviours and other actions that help keep themselves safe and healthy

ACPPS006 8.4

Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing

ACPPS021 8.4

Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours

VCHPEP059

Identify people and actions that help keep themselves safe and healthy

VCHPEP062

Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing

VCHPEP077

Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours

PDe-2 old

Identifies people and demonstrates protective strategies that help keep themselves healthy, resilient and safe

PDe-6 old

Explores contextual factors that influence an individual’s health, safety, wellbeing and

PDe-7 old

Identifies actions that promote health, safety, wellbeing and physically active spaces

PDe-8 old

Explores how regular physical activity keeps individuals healthy

PDe-9 old

Practises self-management skills in familiar and unfamiliar scenarios

PDe-10 old

Uses interpersonal skills to effectively interact with others

PD1-2 old

Recognises and describes strategies people can use to feel comfortable, resilient and safe in situations

PD1-6 old

Understands contextual factors that influence themselves and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity

PD1-7 old

Explores actions that help make home and school healthy, safe and physically active spaces

PD1-8 old

Participates in a range of opportunities that promote physical activity

PD1-9 old

Demonstrates self- management skills in taking responsibility for their own actions

PD1-10 old

Describes and practises interpersonal skills to promote inclusion to make themselves and others feel they belong

Differentiation

Modifications

•    Provide pre-cut images for younger students or those with fine motor challenges.
•    Use larger visuals for students with visual impairments.
•    Allow verbal explanations of their balanced plate for students who prefer not to write.
 

EXTENSIONS

•    Challenge advanced students to research and add additional healthy food options to their plates.
•    Have students create a short presentation about why their plate represents a balanced meal.
 

Related Resources