Broccoli, You Are Hired!

Broccoli, You’re Hired! is one of the fun standards-based activities that comprise Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives. Designed for primary grades students, the activities in Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives, are organized around the themes Think Healthy Eat Healthy, and Move Healthy. The activities are aligned to the national standards in health, science, and social studies and to the Common Core in English/language arts and math. 

Broccoli, Your Hired! is the ninth activity in the theme, Eat Healthy.  Students learn how to classify foods in the key food groups (as designated by the US Dietary Guidelines) and identify the health benefits of each food groups.  They do this by identifying the appropriate foods to respond to a “Help Wanted” advertisement. 

The activity combines group discussion led by the teacher with reading aloud, decision making, and writing. The activity closes with students sharing their work and one new thing that they learned with the class. 

Helping students learn how to make healthy food choices is an important part of reversing the epidemic of childhood obesity.  Classroom instruction, such as that supported through Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives, is part of that effort.  Please take a look at all the activities and tell us which one is your favorite.  Do you have an activity you would like to share with other teachers?  Let us know.