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Keeping Healthy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Review the various ways kids can eat, move, and live to be healthy. They brainstorm lists of exercises, foods, and habits that promote personal health. A good resource to complement a more in-depth lesson.
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students construct food pyramids by painting shoe boxes and using them to respresent different food groups. They cut out and paste pictures of the respresentative foods for the groups on the box sides. They compare their diets to the...
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Sometimes And All the Time Foods

For Teachers K
Students utilize a picture of a lunch box and draw pictures of healthy food choices with which to fill it. The reasons for their choices of particular foods are discussed and the concepts of sometimes foods and all the time foods are...
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Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers K
Students examine importance of making healthy food choices, discuss connection between what we eat and healthy body and heart, discriminate between healthy food or "heart-smart choices," and "junk food," and plan healthy meal or snack.
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Healthy Field Day

For Teachers K - 5th
Hosting a Healthy Field Day will take a lot of planning and organization, but with a lot of parent participation it can come together very well. The resource describes seven stations of the ten that were presented. Each of these has a...
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What Am I Missing?

For Teachers K - 8th
Discuss nutrition and identify components of a healthy diet, view a Food Guide Pyramid, and create a Personal Food Pyramid, listing all foods eaten in the past 24 hours. Compare food lists with the standard Food Guide and determine where...
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Food and Nutrition

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in an after school program that promotes decision making, cooperation, choosing healthy foods, recognizing and naming a variety of foods, state healthy benefits from eating healthy foods and involving oneself in...
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Health and Nutrition Lesson Plan: Learning Healthy Eating Habits With Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students distinguish healthy foods from junk foods. In this personal health and nutrition lesson plan, students make Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry. Students use the puppets to role play discussion about healthy eating.
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Healthy Foods Activity

For Students K - 3rd
In this healthy foods worksheet, students color pictures of healthy foods and cross out those of unhealthy foods. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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There's a Rainbow on My Plate

For Teachers K - 4th
Students complete a variety of activities to learn about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students complete activity sheets, make a wall poster, create a take home flyer,...
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Sugar Shocker

For Students K - 8th
A well-balanced meal is crucial to living a healthy lifestyle. Support healthy living with a worksheet that focuses on the amount of sugar we find in our food. The packet begins with an overview, then goes into an activity in which...
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Sorting Out Soils

For Teachers K
Sift through soil and learn about why it's important for organic processes. After discussing what makes up soil, such as the living organisms and what types of soil have more nutrients, kids sample layers of mulch and deeper soil to...
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Healthy Snacks Project Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
After learning why it is important to limit salt, fat, and sugar in their diets, divide your class into pairs or groups to complete this project. Each group will create two charts: unhealthy and healthy foods. They will cut out food...
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Plant Part Exploration: Stems

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Explore water transport in plant stems using this fun experiment! Your scientists will start by reading Stems by Vijaya Bodach. Then, activate prior knowledge about plant stem functions and water transportation. Demonstrate this concept...
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It's Time To Eat!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore the various types of nutritious foods that can be eaten at meal and snack times. they discuss the types of food they eat at mealtimes. Students use Kidspiration to create a web for each mealtime and each snack.
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Primary PE Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st
Students divide into two groups facing each other; tossing the bean bags to each other. The teacher calls out names of unhealthy food and students start to throw beanbags back and forth to their partner. When students hear a healthy...
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Healthy Eating: Are We What We Eat?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students watch an introduction slide show to assess prior knowledge of healthy foods. They listen as the teacher goes over the food pyramid and food groups. Students analyze a lunch they bring from home by tallying their lunch items on a...
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Breakfast Boost

For Students K - 8th
A healthy and balanced breakfast is essential to maintaining a day's worth of solid energy and mind-power. Encourage class members to eat a smart breakfast with a worksheet that provides interesting food facts, a questionnaire looking...
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Happy Whole-idays

For Students K - 8th
Take a look into how whole grains support growth, provide energy to play, and help us to stay strong with a fun-filled resource. The worksheet offers interesting food facts, an exercise in nutrition label reading, a recipe for chunky...
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Down with Dairy and the Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss food pyramid, name parts of pyramid, discuss dairy products and how they are beneficial to people, and participate in dairy taste testing.
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Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this well-designed nutritional activity, students are given the opportunity to create their own daily food record, compare their nutrient with minimimun requirements, and think critically about their own food choices. Materials and...
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Introduction to the Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 5th
Students review information on the food pyramid, either in printed works or on the Internet, to research healthy eating habits.
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Healthy Lifestyles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students navigate MS Publisher to create a publication about a healthy lifestyle.  In this healthy lifestyle lesson, students participate in activities to learn to eat right, to be fit and to create a publication based on what they...
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Eating the Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the concept of the Food Guide Pyramid.  For this nutrition lesson, students discuss healthy eating habits after reading the book entitled Gregory, the Terrible Eater.  Students then work in groups finding pictures of the...

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