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Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others
Students use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid lesson, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups. Students participate in cross curricular activities to become...
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Healthy Eating Improves Learning
Students recognize that healthy food gives you better ability to concentrate and makes you more willing to learn. In this healthy food lesson, students choose food from Canada's food guide to create a healthy lunch and healthy snack.
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Food Chain Game
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in a role-play activity. In this food chain lesson, students discuss the order of life and how animals must eat other animals to survive. Students conduct a food chain game in...
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The Food Pyramid
Third graders research a food pyramid website and research a healthy diet. In this food pyramid lesson, 3rd graders complete a puzzle based on the research they've completed and create a healthy main course menu.
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What's the Shape of Your Diet?
Fifth graders explore the food pyramid. For this food pyramid lesson, 5th graders investigate a proper balanced diet and compare their daily diet with recommendations from the food pyramid. Students create a visual representation of...
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Let's Make a Meal: A Study of Oats
Young scholars investigate the history and health benefits of oats. In this food history and nutrition lesson, students describe the origin of oats in America, define nutrition related vocabulary, and read and follow recipes for making...
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Making Healthy Food and Activity Choices: Putting the Pyramid Together
Students work with the Food Guide Pyramid. In this Food Guide Pyramid lesson plan, students draw a large rendering of the food pyramid on a piece of butcher paper. They cut out pictures of foods and place them on the food pyramid, they...
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Be a Food Explorer
Students discover the origins of fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition instructional activity, students research how fruits and vegetables came to the United States via trade routes. Resources are provided.
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Basic Food Items
Learners explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Learners read a list of food...
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Christmas Dinner at Aunt Junie May's House
In this food choices activity, students read situations about being at a Christmas dinner and answer short answer questions about making good food choices. Students complete 6 problems.
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Happy Halloween!
The treat part of trick or treat doesn't have to be unhealthy! Learners read four scenarios about traditional Halloween treats and decide which they would choose based on the phe (phenylalanine) values of each.
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Thanksgiving Activity
Thanksgiving food doesn't have to be unhealthy! Learners read five situations about specific foods, ingredient substitutions, and ways to maintain healthy blood levels with a handy holiday instructional activity.
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Diabetes: Grades 3-5
Learners investigate personal health by researching healthy eating on the Internet. In this childhood disease instructional activity, students discuss diabetes, the causes, and ways it can be prevented. Learners complete worksheets based...
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Food Pyramid
Third graders examine healthy eating habits by identifying the food pyramid. In this personal health lesson, 3rd graders discuss their own eating habits and how there should be a variety of foods in all diets. Students research an...
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Nutrition
Seventh graders investigate nutrition and nutrients. In this nutrition or diet instructional activity, groups of students create a poster, commercial, or skit about a nutriet which will be presented or performed to the rest of the class...
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Food Pyramid
Students examine the food pyramid. In this healthy diet lesson, students view the food pyramid and discuss healthy eating. Students find examples of healthy food in magazines and share their findings. Students plan healthy means and...
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Breakfast: Grades K-2
Students investigate nutrition and the role breakfast plays in everyday life. In this healthy eating activity, students discuss their own breakfast habits and the meal they would prefer to have every morning. Students practice...
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Studying the Food Pyramid
Students explore the food pyramid and how to eat a healthy diet. In this nutrition lesson, students use pictures to make charts of food from the different food groups, record the food they eat throughout the day, investigate the eating...
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Flower Pot Salad Bar
Students discuss the connection between a flower pot and wholesome food by creating a salad. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students utilize numerous fresh vegetables to create a classic salad in a flower pot. Students...
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Healthy Snacking: Grades 3-5
Students investigate healthy snack foods. In this healthy snack foods lesson, students discover what good snacks consist off and how healthy snacking can improve health. They design the perfect snack machine using the associated...
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Nutrition Plates
Students investigate healthy eating habits by studying the food pyramid. In this personal health lesson, students write a recipe for a healthy meal including one item from each section of the four food groups. Students utilize images...
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Having Fun with Healthy Food
Students complete worksheets about healthy foods. In this health lesson, students do peanut worksheets including a maze and labeling page. They find all the pictures that start with the letter p.
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How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?
Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions. In this personal health lesson, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations. Students complete the "Rate That...
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Candy Database
Students make a database of their Halloween candy and decide which types are the healthiest. In this diet lesson, students make written data charts using their candy, locate dietary information on one type, sort the candy by shape, and...