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Fruits and Vegetable Vocabulary

For Students 6th - 12th
This isn't your typical fruit and vegetable vocabulary review. Test your learners' knowledge of thirty-eight different food-related vocabulary words. They match the picture of the food with its correct French word. A great way to...
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PPT
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Energy Flow Through Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Middle or high school environmental studies classes will learn much from this presentation on energy in ecosystems. It covers the foundational topics of trophic levels, food webs, and nutrient cycles using informational text and...
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Considering Trade-Offs and Maximizing Efficiency in a Fast Food Restaurant

For Students 7th - 12th
Make fast food restaurants even faster. Groups consider trade-offs when maximizing efficiency in fast food restaurants. Restructuring schedules and floor plans, as well reassigning job duties, all fall under this directive.  
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Creating Chains and Webs to Model Ecological Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The sustainability of an ecosystem depends on many factors and changes constantly. Young scholars consider these factors as they use a set of cards to create food webs. They review key scientific vocabulary such as predator, prey,...
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Polymers and Crystals: Their Role in Food Science

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Blend chemistry with cooking in this exploration of polymers, carbohydrates, and food science. Experimenting with gelatin produces concrete examples of the bonding and ploymerization discussed in the lesson. Copious, comprehensive...
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Where Do Plants Get Their Food?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Plants need food to survive, just like any other living organism. Young biologists analyze an experiment performed in 1610 by Jan van Helmont to determine if plant nutrition is obtained through the soil. First, lab groups work together...
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Nemours KidsHealth

School Lunch: With Great Lunch Comes Great Responsibility

For Students 9th - 12th
In this nutrition worksheet, students create a comic strip about meals, nutrition, food groups, and the messages celebrities send about weight and nutrition. Students sum up their message with one sentence after drawing their comic strip.
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Lesson Plan
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Lesson Plan: What We Value

For Teachers 7th - 12th
How have values changed? How does our society influence our choices? Two great questions lead this discussion about food production, history, and cause-and-effect relationships. Pupils analyze a limestone relief from Assyria, research...
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Electricity and Food: From Glowing Pickles in Citrus Batteries

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore electrical concepts and host a guest speaker. This lesson sets up guidelines for students to follow when they have a guest speaker. Students are primed to become actively involved in a lecture or discussion, while...
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Lesson Plan
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Biological Relationships

For Teachers 6th
Create a written document to show knowledge of producers, consumers, decomposers, and symbiotic relationships. To investigate food consumption, your classes will differentiate between types of symbiosis and explain examples of each.
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Chinese Jeopardy

For Teachers 1st
Play Jeopardy with this primary level China PowerPoint. The questions are simple and focus on the geography, culture, animals, food, and Inventions of China. There are 5 point levels available for each category.
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PPT
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Alternative Animal Agriculture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Presenting an unusual topic, this collection of slides examines alternative animals that can be grown for profit or human use. It details the raising of rabbits as food, llamas for textiles, earthworms as fish bait, and a variety of...
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Mascil Project

Parachute Food Drop

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Drop a perfect project into your lesson plans. Groups use different building materials to create models of parachutes for food drops. After testing out their prototypes, they make improvements to their designs.
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Worksheet
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The Food Chain

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this food chain worksheet, students draw a food chain plus describe and name an omnivore, herbivore, and carnivore. Students answer nine questions.
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Lesson Plan
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Falling Food Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils examine personal health by defining the five food groups. In this food pyramid lesson, students discuss the importance of each food group and write them on the board. Pupils utilize the Internet to participate in a food...
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Food Labels Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars analyze nutrition by completing an interactive activity with classmates. In this food choice lesson, students discuss the importance foods have on our daily lives by keeping us healthy and giving us energy. Young scholars...
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The Food Pyramid

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders plan a variety of nutritional meals using the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid as a reference and analyze food labels to plan their meals. They examine and discuss the Food Pyramid, and create dichotomous keys separating food...
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The Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 5th
Students determine that humans need food to function properly. In this nutrition lesson plan, students discuss the food categories used in the food pyramid by charting the foods eaten in one day.
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Reading Food Labels

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the food labels on two similar items that are very different nutritionally such as a can of regular soda and a can of diet soda. Next they, sort through food labels to determine healthy and unhealthy foods by...
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Lesson Plan
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Food Webs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the concept of an ecosystem and how they are interconnected according to a hierarchy. Students are exposed to the "Lion King" as an example of a food chain and this is very relevant. They answer several key...
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Unit Plan
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Reading Nutrition Labels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this nutrition worksheet, students name 2 food labels, then circle which label best fits a series of 12 statements such as "most sodium per serving," etc. Students then write about which item they think is more healthy and why.
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Healthy Food Makes Healthy Body

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid. In this healthy eating activity, students participate in a variety of center activities where they explore the food pyramid and the importance of making healthy food choices. Students also have the...
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Food Chains and Food Webs

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars discuss the characteristics of producers, consumers and decomposers. Using a flow chart, they construct a food chain to visually show how organisms with different energy sources depend upon one another. Students explore...
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Food Insecurity in a Global World: Perspectives from Africa

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate food shortages. In this global issues lesson, students examine how food scarcity issues have impacted the people of Easter Africa. Learners use the information they gather to determine methods of providing food to...

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