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Modeling Good Eating

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify and classify the items in a healthy diet. In this dietary instructional activity, students listen to a song about healthy eating while listening for good snack foods. They use pictures of the snacks to complete a large...
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Size-Wise:Healthy Eating Habits

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students become familiar with portion control.  In this healthy habits lesson, students create a meal using pizza and toppings.  Students continue adding toppings and cutting away portions until there is none left.  Students recognize...
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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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Making Healthy Food and Activity Choices: Putting the Pyramid Together

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work with the Food Guide Pyramid. In this Food Guide Pyramid instructional activity, 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...
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Healthy Eaters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students classify foods as "healthy" or "unhealthy" and sort foods into appropriate food groups. In this nutrition/physical education lesson, students play a game in which throwing skills are practiced. Pictures of food are sorted into...
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Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify healthy food choices. In this nutrition lesson plan, students review the food pyramid and write down their favorite food on a post-it note. Students create a bar graph of favorite foods using the post-it notes.
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Serving Up My Plate

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Offer your youngsters an extra helping of nutritional knowledge and healthy tips with this resource, which centers around the MyPlate nutritional guide and offers three "courses" of plans and worksheets on the food groups and the...
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Eating the Rainbow: At the Farmer's Market

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students share what type of fruit and vegetables they like. In this adult health lesson, students explain the benefits of eating healthy foods. They discuss recipe ideas that can be done at home.
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Taming the O-BEAST-ITY Without Eating Right

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners use the Internet to find out about eating disorders and maintaining a healthy weight. In this eating disorders lesson plan, students identify eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and discuss complications. Learners...
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Vegetables

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Help your learners exercise healthy eating habits with a series of activities about vegetables. Kids learn about common vegetables with songs, matching games, flashcards, and crafts. 
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Couch Potato

For Teachers K - 5th
Show your class that being active is more fun than being a couch potato! A fun tag game teachers learners about making healthy eating choices. Over 125,000 teachers have reviewed this activity, and many have written comments about how...
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Eco-Healthy Lunch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners plan healthy lunches and how to dispose of their lunch waste. In this pre-field trip lesson, students and teachers plan healthy, nutritious lunches to bring on a field trip. They also discuss how to sort their garbage into the...
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Having Fun with Healthy Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
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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Kool Kumara Lesson Plans - Healthy Living

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read graphs as they work with recommended daily intakes of nutrients. In this math and nutrition lesson plan, students examine Recommended Daily Intake Maps to establish how much of the daily requirement is met by eating on...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Healthy Snacking: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Snacks—even the word can conger up a hunger. Rapidly growing teens, especially, rely on snacks to get them from one meal to the next. After reading a series of articles about nutrition and healthy snack choices, pupils fill out a report...
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Healthy Snacking: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Two lessons, all about snacking, look closely at how to make smart, balanced choices. Lesson one challenges pupils to create a menu for the hypothetical restaurant, The Snack Shack. Lesson two offers a variety of informative articles...
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Benefits of Nutrients

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Explore the nutrients a body needs using this resource. Learners discuss the importance of the relationships between proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and water. It's a great way to have your class talk about the healthy...
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A Healthy Lifestyle

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students view the PowerPoint presentation to learn the components of a healthy lifestyle. In this healthy lifestyle instructional activity, students view the PowerPoint presentation about a healthy diet, the importance of exercise, and...
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Happy Mealtimes

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Young scholars read The Hungry Caterpillar to examine healthy eating habits. In this food and nutrition lesson, students role play the various responsibilities during family mealtime. They will discuss the struggles of healthy eating,...
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Introduction to Nutrition

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders take a closer look at the foods they eat and the nutritional value of each. This instructional activity helps them see why foods are grouped together the way they are and what types of nutrition are provided by these food...
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Snack Smart, Move More

For Teachers 5th - 12th
What do lowfat yogurt, baby carrots, fresh fruit, and rice cakes have in common? They are all healthy snacks that can be eaten daily. Investigate healthy eating/snacking guidelines, learn how to make lowfat ice cream and practice some...
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Nutrition -- A Lesson for Life - Biology Teaching Thesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers briefly explain the importance of nutrition in their everyday lives, and they tell you about how many calories they should consume in a day. They list readily available and affordable healthy foods that they LIKE to eat....
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Film English

Coca-Cola Ad

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Have your class members consider how their lifestyle choices may differ from those of their grandparents when they were younger. After brainstorming and discussing differences in lifestyle, pupils watch a Coca-Cola advertisement that...
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Mini Meals

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners discuss what makes a healthy and balanced meal, and then they make them out of clay. They use hand building techniques, radial design, and their knowledge of healthy foods to create unique mini-sized meals for a wall display. 

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