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Fun Food Faces
Students create tasty faces. For this food lesson, students use rice cakes to make a funny face. Students follow directions and use creativity for this activity. Students make a list of things they need from the grocery store to make...
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Bartering for a Balanced Lunch
Students explore economics by participating in a goods exchange activity. For this bartering lesson, students define bartering and practice obtaining goods without using monetary means. Students utilize milk, bread, cheese and other...
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Food and Culture: Exploring the Flavors of Your Community
Students brainstorm the types of food they eat at home, discussing and comparing with the class. Students brainstorm and make a chart of questions that came out of the activity and their discussions. Students interview someone who...
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Jr. Chef Club
Students examine the food pyramid. In this health/math lesson students make biscuits. Students are assigned a group to measure out ingredients. Students also discuss which part of the food pyramid biscuits fall into and the nutritional...
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Help Theodore find all the "Yes" foods!
In this 'Help Theodore' find all the "yes" foods worksheet, students circle the "yes" foods and cross out the "no" foods.
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Let's Go On a Snack Hunt
In this snack foods worksheet, students complete an English or Spanish snack food worksheet. Students complete a matching and coloring activity.
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Food Snap
In this healthy diet worksheet, students cut out the pictures of food and food terms. Students use the cards to play a game of snap or concentration.
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Primary/Elementary Activity: Energy in Food
In this food energy learning exercise, students rank the foods by the amount of energy they think the various food items have in them. Students then answer the 4 questions about food energy.
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Food, Families, and Festivals
In this festivals learning exercise, students work as a group and sort pictures of food into 2 groups: party foods and everyday foods. Students then discuss their favorite foods, celebrations with foods, quantities of food, and foods for...
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Fretful Over Fast Food
Fifth graders research fast food options and write an essay on the topic. In this fast food lesson, 5th graders pretend they are a babysitter and research fast food restaurant options to eat at while they are baby-sitting. Students write...
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What Do Animals Eat?
In this animal diets instructional activity, students identify animals and food. Students then draw a line to the food that the 4 animals eat.
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Bread Mobile
In these mobile activity worksheets, students read the directions to create a bread mobile. Students read and follow 5 directions for the craft activity.