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Five-Alive: The Value of Fruits and Vegetables
Students discuss importance of proper nutrition in staying healthy, examine food pyramid chart and identify different vegetables or fruits via eye gaze, and sample different vegetables or fruits at snack or lunch time.
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The Color Way
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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Microwave Introduction
Students 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 bags of...
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Lesson: Living With the Farm Next Door
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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Eat Smart. Play Hard.
Students study healthy food choices and the energy it creates for physical activity. For this food energy lesson, students complete multiple activities to learn about the benefits of healthy eating upon physical activity.
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Eco-Healthy Lunch
Students 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...
Baylor College
What's Is Soil Made Of?
It's time to roll up those sleeves and get a little dirty in the second lesson plan of this series on the science of food. Investigate where plants and animals get the minerals they need to live in this two-part exploration of soil....
Baylor College
They're Everywhere: Bacteria
Totally gross out your class with the eighth lesson in this series on food science. Explore the microscopic world of bacteria by taking swabs of different classroom objects and growing colonies in petri dishes. An engaging activity that...
Curated OER
Your Energy Balance Goal!
This is the culminating activity for a unit on energy balance for 3rd-5th graders created by Together Counts. Young learners make a plan to balance their energy in and their energy out for one month. They use the SMART steps in creating...
Agriculture in the Classroom
Growing a Nation (1950-1969): Prosperity & Challenges: The Story of American Agriculture
A wonderful lesson on the development and impact of mechanized farming! History or agriculture classes learn the historical background of the United States' food production by creating a pamphlet with information on the cause and...
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Family Life Cycle - Children's Lab
Students review how their nutritional needs change over time. In groups, they design their own menu in which they get all the nutrients they need. To end the lesson, they share their foods with the class and complete a wordsearch...
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Good Enough To Eat
Students are introduced to the five food groups. In groups, they place different foods into the correct section of the Food Pyramid. Using different types of technology, they create one page of a class ABC book sharing what they know...
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"Mush Lab"
Students use the information they learned from reading food labels to create mush meals. They blend unlikely meals together to form the mush and then evaluate its nutritional value. They examine their own eating habits after the lab is...
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Engineering and the Senses
Learners explore nutrition. For this nutrition lesson, students discuss a person's sense of taste and how it is different for each person. Learners discuss favorite foods and how they relate to nutrition. Students cut out pictures of...
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Eggs Introduction
Students research eggs including their structure, sizes, grades, nutritional value, functions in recipes, preparation techniques, and storage guidelines. They prepare a recipe including eggs.
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Exercise Your Options for Stronger Bones
Students investigate ways to improve their bone strength. In this bone strength instructional activity, students explore the link between exercise and bone growth. Students study the effects of proper nutrition and exercise.
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Counting Calories
Students evaluate the health of breakfast foods. They create and solve word problems using cereal nutrition data. They solve additional problems formulated in class and write short essay on what they learned.
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Our Choices Matter: What You Eat
Students will record their food choices for one week, noting calories, protein and vitamin content of foods using a given USDA website. Students will discuss whole class the important of proper nutrition and its role, and what happens...
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Bacteria's Role in Food
Students grow bacteria cultures on agar in petri dishes and do a plate count. They participate in a yogurt making lab to see how bacteria produce lactic acid. They prepare a recipe and identify fungi, fermentation and the role of...
Southern Nevada Health District
Is It Fruit?
The concept is the most valuable feature of this resource, which is designed to bring learners' attention to the nutritional labels of food items. Your class will take a closer look at the labels on bottled juice containers to determine...
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Creating a Nutrition Table in MicroSoftExcel
Students access the internet to find Nutritional information from a restaurant of their choice and compile their information into an excel spreadsheet.
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What's in a Willow?
Students study of nutritional value of edible native plants. discriminate between foods that have nutritional value and those that do not. They relate how food can affect how they think, feel, and perform.
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Diet: You Are What You Eat
Third graders examine the issue of food quality to assess the dangers of pesticides, additives, and improper food preparation. After keeping food diaries and categorizing foods, they fill in food pyramids based on their journal entries....
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The Mind-Body Connection
Second graders learn about the human body. In this biology lesson plan, 2nd graders will begin with the basics of understanding charts and graphs and progress into units that cover the body systems, and mental and emotional health....