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What Is the Food Pyramid?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to the USDA Food Pyramid. They discuss good nutrition and work cooperatively with the class to assemble a food pyramid puzzle.
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Curated OER

Food and Energy

For Teachers K - 2nd
What is a calorie? How many calories do young people require? How many do athletes require? How many calories do adults need? Introduce learners to the calories in foods. Explain that different types of foods have different amounts of...
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Plan a Meal Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Discuss helping with the family grocery shopping. View a teacher drawn map of a grocery store and discuss where the breads, meats, and dairy products are located. Practice categorizing foods as breads and cereals, fruits, vegetables,...
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Favorite Foods

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore human health by completing food choice worksheets. In this world hunger lesson, students discuss the importance of eating three daily meals and how to feed the underprivileged through charities and soup kitchens....
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Cheeseburger Food Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use a cheeseburger to demonstrate knowledge of the food groups. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students learn about the food groups by investigating the different parts of a cheeseburger. The students create a...
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review a variety of foods and classify them into food groups. They identify the benefits of each food group to our bodies and consider how deficiencies of these groups affect humans. They sort pictures, view a video and write...
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Favorite Foods

For Teachers K
Students explore human health by reading agricultural books. In this dietary habit lesson, students discuss the foods we eat everyday and read two books about our human diets. Students identify the uses our body has for food and identify...
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Snack Smart Move More

For Teachers K - 5th
Show your kids that staying healthy is the smart choice! They examine nutrition, healthy snacks, and the importance of staying active in a several-part lesson plan. There are different ideas for older and younger students here, and you...
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The ABC's of Breakfast

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the food group of various culturally diverse breakfast foods and discuss the importance of eating a healthy, well-balanced breakfast every morning. They then try different foods that begin with the letter A, B and C and...
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Your Energy Balance Goal!

For Teachers K - 3rd
This is the last lesson in the series put out by Together Counts on health. This activity has youngsters setting goals to keep their energy balanced by making excellent eating and activity choices. They may need a little help making...
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Going Bananas!©

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss importance of eating five servings of fruits and vegetables for a healthy lifestyle, and identify bananas as an excellent source of energy.
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I Can Balance. You Can Balance.

For Teachers K - 5th
There are many, many reasons why people do not maintain an energy balance. Talk to your young learners about balance, what gets in the way of eating healthy, and things that get in the way of doing physical activity. Some obstacles may...
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Let's Do Pizza

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars complete a variety of activities to list the ingredients in pizza and identify the food groups in pizza. They sing the song, "I Am a Pizza" by Charlotte Diamond, draw a food pyramid, and make English Muffin pizzas.
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Nemours KidsHealth

School Lunch: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Two lessons encourage scholars to make smart eating choices. The first lesson sorts food items into the MyPlate's food groups. Learners scour magazines to cut and paste examples onto a paper plate that showcases each group. Then, draw...
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What Are the Food Groups?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discover the four main food groups by categorizing their own diet.  In this healthy eating activity, students utilize a chart with pictures of food to identify which food belongs in which food group.  Students discuss why eating...
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Plants are yummy!

For Students K - 1st
Is it a fruit or a vegetable? Youngsters place an F next to each fruit they see and a V next to the vegetables. Corn is tricky. It is a grass, so it's actually not a fruit or a vegetable, but a grain!
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Food and Languages of the World

For Teachers K
Students listen to the story "No Blue Food" in this lesson plan. They then discuss Allegra, the main character, and her hesitation to try new foods. They participate in a matching game in which they match cards to determine a fruit...
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The Human Body

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...
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Fun With The Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this food pyramid worksheet, students color pictures of "healthy food friends." There are 8 pictures total from the various food groups.
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T. Smith Publishing

Missing Vegetable Vowels

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids are always being told to eat their vegetables, but this time you can tell them to spell their vegetables! Kids fill in the vowels to spell 14 different vegetables ranging from lettuce to radish.
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Engineering and the Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore nutrition. In this nutrition lesson plan, students discuss a person's sense of taste and how it is different for each person. Students discuss favorite foods and how they relate to nutrition. Students cut out pictures of...
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Pecans

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore human health by creating a food dish in class. For this nuts lesson, students discuss pecans and identify the benefits of eating nuts and vegetables. Students prepare a dish for their classmates using pecans in the recipe. 
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Cooking Matters

Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids

For Teachers K - 8th
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners create vegetable super heroes,...
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Energy Balance In Your Life

For Teachers K - 5th
It's easy enough to put energy in, but not so easy to use it up! Look at food labels with your young learners and help them understand the concept of calories in and calories out. Food eaten means calories in and exercise means calories...

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