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Nutrition and the Food Pyramid

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the food pyramid and how healthy food effects the body. They discuss what they ate for breakfast and identify what makes a food healthy. Students analyze the food pyramid, and cut out magazine pictures of food and...
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the different levels of the food pyramid and plan a healthy meal. They discuss the food pyramid and read about nutrition using a variety of resources. Using Kidspiration computer software, they plan a...
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Food Group Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the four food groups and nutrition. They cut out pictures of food from newspapers and magazines, create placemats, and create an ABC book of food.
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Sweet-Talkers

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners investigate what is being sold to them. In this media awareness lesson plan, students visit selected websites to take a closer look at advertising marketed at them. Learners discuss the implications of marketing geared toward...
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ESOL: Health and Nutrition

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the four food groups and how they contribute to one's health. They identify the four food groups and create a poster of the four food groups with pictures. They present their posters to the class and practice answering...
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No Food, No Money, No Job: What to Do?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students research the Civilian Conservation Corps and create an advertisement that might have promoted it.
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Real Life Challenge

For Students 7th - 9th
In this career worksheet, learners complete one of the listed projects on the sheet. They create a menu for one day and calculate the total cost for a day's worth of food. Students also design a career brochure to educate others about...
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Grocery Store Problem Solving

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students use multiple math skills to complete grocery story problems. In this grocery math lesson plan, students study grocery ads to learn about the cost of foods. Students investigate food types and the costs of processed versus raw...
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Advertising's Hidden Messages

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students explore the hidden messages in advertisements. In this business instructional activity, students discuss the role that advertisements play in our lives. Students locate advertisements that use various advertising techniques....
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Adjectives and Adverbs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify adverbs and adjectives in an advertisement. In this adjectives and adverbs lesson, students complete several activities. A worksheet is included for practice.
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Consumer Education

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while examining an intense list of vocabulary terms on types of money, change and simple foods, name and state the cost of food items in supermarkets, grocery stores and flea markets with flash cards and newspaper ads.
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Fishing for Foods

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice using the food pyramid and know which food group familiar foods belong in.
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The Dragon's Tail

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read a story about Little D, a baby dragon, and how he interacts with the five food groups. They color, chant, pantomime, and discuss food groups after reading the story. They also consider causes and effects as they make...
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What's on Sale?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore sale items.  In this money and percent math instructional activity, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper.  Young scholars identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage...
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Mangeons a Paris!

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners explore vocabulary pertaining to food and restaurants. They read an ad for restaurants and discuss the information they expect to find. They research the Internet and locate cognates to examine the meaning in context.
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Want Ad: Healthy Eater

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners to explain the differences between healthy and unhealthy eating habits and what steps they need to take in order to make healthy eating choices.
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Biology Junction

Enzymes

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Many people know enzymes help with digestion, but few realize enzyme production decreases with age, making it more difficult for bodies to digest certain foods. A worksheet offers 28 fill-in-the-blank and short-answer questions over...
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Lab Experiments in Nutrition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking for authentic hands-on nutritional experiments? High schoolers will perform experiments to test for the presence of vitamin C in several solutions as well as the effect of caffeine on Daphnia. They will also consider the...
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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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Munchtime for animals

For Students 3rd - 4th
Which animals eat meat to stay alive? Third graders group fish, hawks, and cats into carnivores and herbivores. An extended activity prompts kids to cut out magazine pictures of different animals according to the foods that they eat. 
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Reading Comprehension 5

For Students 8th - 9th
Is the hamburger in that fast food commercial real? Interest your class in this reading assignment by playing a short fast food commercial using YouTube. Then, give your class this reading passage, and have them complete the multiple...
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Miss America

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The first part of this article by PBS on the Miss America pageants can be used in a health class when it's time to talk about body image. There are links to related articles. There are some great questions for discussion. There are ideas...
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Through Our Eyes

For Teachers 10th
After reading Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street, class members design a canned food drive, create advertisements for the drive, and use digital cameras to document the entire process. In addition, pupils journal their...
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Economics Budget Project

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Your class members will have the opportunity to practice the valuable skill of constructing a personal budget using real-world resources, such as a car advertisement and grocery list. They will take into consideration monthly and yearly...

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