1. The Hook: Race Cars and Super Engines! (5 Minutes)

Parent/Teacher Script: "Put your hands on your chest. Can you feel your heartbeat? *Thump-thump, thump-thump!* Your body is like a super-fast, amazing race car! Your heart is the engine, your legs are the wheels, and your brain is the steering wheel. To make a race car zoom fast, we need to put the very best super-fuel into it. Did you know that the food we eat is our fuel? If we give our engine 'Super Fuel,' we can run fast, jump high, and feel happy! Today, we are going to become Food Detectives to find the best fuel for our bodies!"

2. "I Do": Meet the Go Foods & Slow Foods (8 Minutes)

Show the child a real apple (or a picture of a fruit) and a cookie.

Parent/Teacher Script: "Look at these two things. This is a crispy apple, and this is a yummy cookie. Both taste good, but they do different things to our engines!"

• Go Foods (Super Fuel): "Foods like apples, broccoli, carrots, chicken, and brown bread are Go Foods. They are packed with vitamins and clean energy. When we eat them, our body says, 'Yay! Let's go run at the park!' They help us grow taller and keep us from getting sick."
• Slow Foods (Sometimes Fuel): "Foods like cookies, chips, donuts, and soda are Slow Foods. They have lots of sugar and fats. They taste yummy, but if we eat too much of them, they make our engines feel tired, sleepy, and slow. We eat these only sometimes, as special treats!"

3. "We Do": Red Light, Green Light Food Game! (10 Minutes)

Time to get active! Stand up in an open space.

How to Play: Tell the child you are going to call out a food.

• If you call out a Go Food, they must run/jog in place as fast as they can (Go, Go, Go!).
• If you call out a Slow Food, they must freeze in slow-motion, moving as slowly as a turtle.

Practice Rounds:
• "Broccoli!" (Child jogs fast!)
• "Potato chips!" (Child freezes or moves in super slow-mo)
• "Bananas!" (Child jogs fast!)
• "Sweet soda pop!" (Child freezes or moves slow)
• "Tasty fish or chicken!" (Child jogs fast!)

*Tip: Ask your child after each round, "Why is that a Go Food?" or "What does a Slow Food do to our engine?" to reinforce the concept.

4. "You Do": Design Your Own "Super Plate" (15 Minutes)

Now, the child will build their own healthy meal. Give them the paper plate (or paper circle), the flyers/printed foods, safety scissors, and glue.

Instructions for the Child:

1. "Look through our food pictures and find 3 or 4 healthy Go Foods to put on your plate."
2. "Try to make your plate look like a rainbow! Can you find a green food (like spinach or cucumber), a red/orange food (like tomatoes or carrots), and a protein/grain (like chicken, cheese, or rice)?"
3. "Carefully cut out your favorite healthy foods and glue them onto your plate."
4. "If you can't find a food you love in the pictures, you can use your crayons to draw it on your plate!"

Success Criteria Check: The child can successfully point out at least three distinct Go Foods on their plate and explain in simple terms that Go Foods give us strong energy to run and play.