LESSON PLAN MODEL: CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH

Topic: Sources of Food Class: VI

Duration: 40 Min.

Instructional Objectives:
Children will be able to:

• explain the phrase ‘sources of food’;

• list different sources of food; and

• classify food items according to sources

Teaching-Learning Material Required: One set of colourful cards

Pre-Requisite: The learners are already familiar with variety of foods.

Step 1- Engage (Group Activity)

The teacher divides the learners in four groups and asks them to discuss what they eat every
day. Make a list of food items that they have taken. Afterward the task-leader of each group
reads out what their groups have listed and writes the food items on the blackboard. Then
they discuss it and based on this discussion they will find out that some items are common.
These common food items are then listed.

For example, list may include Bread, Corn Flakes, Milk, Lassi, Dosa, Idly, Chapatti, Dal,
Dalia, Rice, ice-cream, sweets, Uttapam, Curd, Chapatti, Poori, Paratha, Vegetable, Rajama,
Chola, Pav-Bhaji, Juice, Salad, Chicken, Mutton, Egg, Omelet, Fish, etc.

Then teacher asked the learner to check his/her lunch box and if he/she has any other food
item in his/her lunch box other than the listed ones then it should be added. In this way list
can be elaborated.
Step 2- Explore

Teacher Activities Learner Activities

What did you take when you came to school? Bread, Milk, Lassi, Corn flakes

What do you see in the picture? These are some food items
List out the items that you observe in the Milk, Curd, Cheese, Butter, Ice-cream
picture?
Ok, What is the common attribute in these Curd and Ice-cream is made from milk
items?
Can anyone tell me from which product No answer
cheese and butter are made?
Cheese, butter, ghee all are made from milk. From Dairy
Tell me how do we get milk?
Who gives milk? Cow, Buffalo
So what is the source of milk? Animal

Announcement of the topic: After having the above discussion with learners, the teacher
announces that today let us discuss about ‘Sources of Food’.
Step 3- Explain
Then teacher asks some question in your class.

Teacher Activities Learner Activities

Now we have a list of food items that we take Some are liquid and some are solid - Raw &
in daily life. Can these items be divided into Cooked Food - Some food are vegetarian and
different categories? some are non-vegetarian. - Some are obtained
from plants while others are obtained from
animals.

Categorize food items into vegetarian and Vegetarian food: Bread, Corn Flakes, Milk,
non-vegetarian. Lassi, Dosa, Idly, Chapatti, Dal, Dalia, Rice,
ice-cream, sweets, uttapam, Curd, Vegetable,
Rajama, Chola, Pav-Bhaji, Juice, Salad, fruits
Non-vegetarian food: Chicken, Mutton,
Boiled Egg, Omelets, Fish.

How can you divide food into vegetarian and Food items that we get from plants are called
non-vegetarian categories? vegetarian and food items that we get from
animals are called non vegetarian.

Now check the list of vegetarian food. Are all - No madam, milk is obtained from animals.
the items obtained from plants?

So in this context do you agree with the No madam

above statement?

Can anyone divide food items into raw and Raw food: Fruits, Salad Cooked food: Dosa,
cooked food Idly, Chapatti, Dal, Dalia, Rice, ice-cream,
sweets, Uttapam

Has anyone seen chapatti being made at your Yes madam I have seen that first they take
home? flour and then water is poured gradually.
Both are mixed to prepare soft dough. Then
chapatti is rolled out of small balls from that
dough.
Does anybody have idea what kind of flour is Yes madam, wheat
generally used to make chapatti?
And where does wheat come from? From wheat plant
So what is the source of wheat? plant
Step 4- Elaborate
Teacher has a set of colorful card. On one side she writes the names of food items (Bread,
Corn Flakes, Milk, Lassi, Dosa, Idly, Chapatti, Dal, Dalia, Rice, ice-cream, sweets, Uttapam,
Curd, etc.) identified by the learners. Then she asks each learner to come one by one and take
a card and identify whether it is a raw or cooked food item. If it is cooked then write the
sources, from which it is made, on one side of the card. If it is raw food item then write its
sources on the other side of the card.

Then she makes a table on the blackboard in the following format and asks learners to come
one by one and fill the table.

Food Item Cooked/ Raw From which item Source

is it made
Milk raw Cow/buffalo/ goat
(animal)

Chapatti cooked Wheat grains Plant

Bread cooked grains Plant

idly cooked Rice and pulses Plant

Ice-cream cooked milk Cow/ buffalo

(animal)

Dalia cooked grains Plant

Fruits raw Plant

Omelet cooked egg Animal

Stage 5- Evaluate
1) Make a list of items that you have eaten yesterday. Then identify sources of these items.

2) List the various items that are made from milk.