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Choosing foods for energy and health

  • Grade 5
  • Physical and Health Education
  • 1 min 6 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC5-PH-08

Three cards fill in one at a time with helpful ideas for choosing foods: whole foods close to how they grow, local and seasonal foods, and foods from your family and culture. As each idea is explained, an arrow carries it to a child, whose energy battery fills and whose heart beats, ending on the recap "Choose whole, local and family foods for energy and health."

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The question this lesson answers

How can your food choices give you energy and keep you healthy?

Food gives your body energy to move, learn and grow.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can your food choices give you energy and keep you healthy?

Food gives your body energy to move, learn and grow.

Food also helps keep your body healthy.

Here are three helpful ideas for choosing foods.

First, pick whole foods, which are close to how they grow.

Apples, carrots, beans and brown rice are all whole foods.

These foods give your body vitamins, minerals and fibre.

Next, pick local foods, which are grown near where you live.

Seasonal foods are the ones that are ripe at this time of year.

Local and seasonal foods are often fresh and full of flavour.

Last, enjoy foods from your family and culture.

Family and cultural foods can be part of healthy eating.

Together, these choices help fuel an active and healthy day.

Choose whole, local and family foods for energy and health.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 5

Physical and Health Education, Healthy and active living: food choices to support active lifestyles and overall healthBC5-PH-08

Previous: Why Being Active Is Good for Body and MindNext: How Germs Spread and How to Stop Them

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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