Grade 1 Healthy Eating |Worksheets & Assessment

PRIMARY AND ESL ENGLISH RESOURCE TO TEACH FOOD GROUPS AND HEALTHY EATING

Teach students about food groups, healthy eating, and the mind-gut connection, and how food can affect emotions, energy, and overall well-being.

See the Google Slides resource for this unit: Grade 1 Healthy Food / Google Slides (57 slides)
See the YouTube video to support instruction: Healthy Food and Healthy Habits

Great for colouring, reviewing, and reinforcing learning without cutting and pasting. Students can present their booklets and choose a favourite food from each food group. Booklets can also be sent home to share learning with families.

Healthy Eating Unit – Grade 1 (33 Pages)
Canadian Food Guide Aligned | Worksheets, Assessment and My Healthy Plate Activity

Product Description

Teach students about healthy eating and balanced meals with this engaging 33-page Grade 1 Healthy Food Unit. This resource helps young learners understand the Canadian Food Guide, identify food groups, and build healthy plate choices through hands-on and writing activities.

What’s Included (33 Pages)

• Healthy Eating Worksheets
• What is a balanced meal introduction
• Canadian Food Guide review with simple visuals
• Healthy vs sometimes foods activities
• Food group identification activities
• Fruits and Vegetables Activities
• Naming and labelling fruits and vegetables
• Sorting fruits and vegetables
• My favourite healthy foods writing page
• Make a Healthy Plate Activity
• Cut, draw, or design a balanced meal plate
• Visual food group placement
• My Healthy Plate project
• Writing Prompts
• My favourite healthy food is
• Silly and engaging writing prompts to promote positive food language
• Assessment
• Grade 1 Healthy Eating Quiz
• Multiple choice and short response questions
• Answer key included

Skills Covered

• Healthy eating habits
• Understanding balanced meals
• Food group recognition
• Canadian Food Guide basics
• Writing and communication skills
• Health and wellness awareness

Perfect For

• Grade 1 Health curriculum (Ontario aligned)
• Nutrition and healthy living units
• Science or cross-curricular integration
• Morning work or literacy connections
• Sub plans and assessment tasks

Why Teachers Love It

• Easy to print and use
• Engaging hands-on learning
• Strong visual supports for young learners
• Combines reading, writing, and art
• Clear connection to real-life healthy habits

Write a funny story about a cute fruit picture with a word bank.

This is a strong primary and ESL resource for students learning about healthy eating and is suitable for health, physical education, and homeroom teachers.

Students can also use coloured fruit and vegetable images to support learning and bring in samples to try.

This is an easy low-prep booklet that teaches all about proper nutrition and follows the Canadian Food Guide.