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How the Body Uses Fat

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Not all fat is bad—eating good fats actually helps with weight loss. Learn how the body uses fat through a 27-slide presentation that breaks down the path fat takes from entering to exiting the body. Understanding why fat is helpful and...
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Whack A Snack Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students play a computer game where they match the correct food into the correct food group. In this food groups lesson plan, students also rate foods as being their favorite foods or not favorite foods.
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Weekly Meal Sheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this food diary activity, learners record the foods they eat from each of 5 groups on a chart that has spaces for each day of the week.
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Eating Healthy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students review healthy eating habits, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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They Don't Just Eat Grass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers consider the USDA daily recommendations to create a "feed" product for middle schoolers. For this Health lesson, students learn about the ingredients in feed that is fed to livestock and apply the method to creating feed...
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Helping People Who Are Hungry

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the concept of hunger.  In this hunger lesson, students discuss the book, The Story of Stone Soup.  Student then brainstorm a possible service project ideas and create plans to carry out their service project.
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An Inside Look at Apples

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine and identify parts of an apple.  In this biology lesson, 1st graders cut an apple in half and locate all the parts, use the apple halves as stamps, and create a bar graph displaying which apple types the students...
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Kitchen Math - Levels I & II

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners examine mathematics as an important component of nutrition management and food preparation.
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Eat Smart, Play Hard

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discover why breakfast is important. For this nutrition lesson, students read a "Power Up With Breakfast" worksheet and discuss the importance of breakfast. Students draw pictures of fruit they would want in their breakfast shake.
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The Color Way

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study the importance of eating a colorful diet of fruits and vegetables. In this nutritional diet lesson, students complete multiple activities to learn about the nutritional value of colorful fruits and vegetables.
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The Energy Equation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore human energy components. In this personal health lesson plan, students determine how food, sleep, and exercise impact human energy levels as they play BAM! Body and Mind  interactive games. Students create motivational...
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Water/Hydration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop an understanding of the role water has in the body and the importance of getting enough water each day. Through the activity, students recognize the risks and signs of dehydration. Also, they identify foods with high...
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Quick Breads, Pancake/Waffle Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore the bread, cereal, grain food group on the Food Guide Pyramid. They test recipes for quick breads which are high in carbohydrates and determine the purpose of each of the ingredients in pancakes or waffles.
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Microwave Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars take true and false pretest, and explore and practice basic principles of microwave cooking and how to use and care for it properly while preparing foods. Students watch teacher demonstration and then prepare their own...
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3-Every-Day of Dairyfor Stronger Bones

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students respond to a poll by actively moving in response to prompts. In this dairy nutrition lesson, students write sentences in groups using vocabulary words from a word list. Students discuss physical activity and how calcium improves...
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Fruit Or Vegetable? -- Black Line Copy

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this nutrition worksheet, students discover common and unusual foods by cutting out 24 picture and word cards. Students color each picture, decide if the food is a fruit or vegetable, and sort the cards.
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Be an All Star

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In this foods worksheet, students find the foods in the picture and circle the foods that are asked of them. Students circle 13 breakfast foods that are in Spanish.
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The Six Nutrients Student Worksheet

For Students 7th - 8th
In this health worksheet, learners answer ten questions based around the concept of the different types of foods like carbohydrates, proteins, and fats with an emphasis upon how they are used in the body.
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Let's Go Shopping!

For Students K - 1st
In this nutrition worksheet, students investigate the need for a balanced healthy diet by making a shopping list. Students cut out 24 grocery items. Students paste desired items in the grocery cart and color all the pictures.
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How To Make Pizza

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this sequencing and nutrition worksheet, students consider the 6 steps to make a pizza. Students cut out the direction cards and glue them in the correct order. Students color the pictures.
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Fruits and Veggies: More Matters

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners study the importance of having fruits and vegetables within their diet. In this healthy diet lesson, students identify foods in the fruit and vegetable groups. Learners complete several activities to learn the benefits and...
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Fruits and Veggies More Matters: Teen Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners study the importance of increasing their fruit and vegetable consumption. In this healthy diet lesson, students study the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables based on their age, sex, and activity level. Learners list three...
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Lesson: Living With the Farm Next Door

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Discuss with learners why farms are growing in size and why there is sometimes conflict between farmers and their non-farming neighbors. Read the article, "Living With the Farm Next Door," and then craft letters to the editor from the...
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Child Care Unit

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this activity, child care apprentices prepare granola bars to serve to preschoolers. A recipe and lab evaluation sheet are included, but the actual procedure is vague. It could be used in a cooking class or as a career exploration...

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