Health Lesson

I've been wanting to incorporate some sort of structured play into my lessons. In health, I am teaching a unit on nutrition. Today we were learning about the food pyramid and the different food groups. I had them do a game on the smartboard where they had to put different foods into their correct group. This simple game was so much fun for them that they wanted to play again and again. To add more play, tomorrow for my lesson I am going to split the class into three groups and then each group would be given pictures of different foods. On one side of the room there would be five baskets labeled with a food group. Each team would send one teammate at a time with one piece of food and they would have to speed walk and put the food in the correct basket. This would allow the students to be moving and doing some sort of fun competition. I see how much the children enjoy getting that little bit of movement, so I am excited to watch how the lesson turns out, and see how structured play will work.