Lesson 5.5: Your Nutrition Plan

Overview

This lesson focuses on learning about the benefits of using food logs to analyze your diet and how to use SMART goals to develop a plan for healthy eating.

Learning Targets

  • LO19: Describe how to keep a food log.
  • LO20: Describe two ways to analyze your diet.
  • LO21: Practice setting SMART nutrition goals.
  • LO22: Follow your nutrition plan and reflect on your progress.
  • LO23: Demonstrate how to ask for help with meeting your nutrition goals.

Preparation

For the Warm-Up Activity: Write the Journal Question on the board or identify (and copy as needed) the worksheets you plan to use:

For the Content Focus: Make copies of the Note-Taking Guide. Project the Lesson 5.5 PowerPoint slides.

For the Lesson Focus: Copy the Lesson 5.5 Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: Asking for Support.

Warm-Up Activity

Select a warm-up activity to help get your class focused and on task.

  • Journal Question: Do you ever make a choice about what to eat based on how well or how much you have been eating that day? How do you keep track of your diet and whether or not it is well balanced?
    • Option: Write or project the question and have students respond in their journal or on their “bell ringer” sheet as they enter class.
    • Option: Have students discuss the question with a partner or in a small group.
  • Vocabulary Review: Have students work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to complete the Lesson 5.5 Vocabulary Review Worksheet
  • Quiz: Have students complete the Lesson 5.5 Quiz to assess their prior knowledge.
    • Option: Collect the quiz and use it alongside a posttest to demonstrate student learning.
    • Option: Have students share their answers with a partner and then go over the answers together as a class.

Lesson Content

Review the content from the textbook lesson.

Lesson Focus: Asking for Support

  1. Give each student a copy of the Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: Asking for Support.
  2. Review the directions with students and tell students to work individually to write their script.
  3. When students are finished with their script, tell them pair up and share their script with a partner. Tell students to work together to help each other edit each other’s script to make it clearer and more concise.

Challenge Activity

Have students needing an additional challenge work on the following Thinking Critically task.

Create a restaurant menu with meals that would align with your nutrition goals. Come up with two lunch items and two dinner items for your menu. Give each item a name and describe the ingredients.

Reflection and Summary

Review the critical content from today’s lesson. Review the learning targets and ask students to answer each question posed.

Can you...

  • Describe how to keep a food log?

    To log your food intake, write down or use an app to enter everything you eat and drink for one day (one 24-hour period). You can recall everything you ate and drank in the last 24 hours, or you can keep track of what you eat for the next 24 hours. Be sure to keep track of the amount you eat for each food.

  • Describe two ways to analyze your diet?

    Use resources (MyPlate, MyFitnessPal) to compare your daily eating habits to specific guidelines.

  • Practice setting SMART nutrition goals?

    Make sure your SMART goal is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely. After you have worked on meeting your goals for a couple of weeks, you will want to reflect on how well you are doing. If you aren’t having much success in meeting your short-term goals or your strategies don’t seem to be working, you may need to adjust one or both.

  • Follow your nutrition plan and reflect on your progress?

    Use the five steps to follow your nutrition plan. Step 1: Log your food intake and analyze your diet. Step 2: Identify your goals. Step 3: Develop your plan. Step 4: Log your progress. Step 5: Reflect on your progress. After a couple weeks, reflect on how well you are doing. If something isn’t working, adjust your goal or your strategies to be more realistic.

  • Demonstrate how to ask for help with meeting your nutrition goals.

    Make sure you explain what you are trying to do and why it is important to you, identify the situations when you might need the most support, and explain the type of support you need.

Assessment

Complete one or more of the following assessment tasks for this lesson.

Take It Home

Share your nutrition plan with a member of your family. Share with that person what they can do to help support you in reaching your goals.