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Evaluating Information on Food Labels
What kinds of foods include corn? Corn syrup? Start by viewing a clip of Food Inc. with your middle or high schoolers. Then, study a list of corn-derived ingredients, encouraging your class to see how many food products contain corn. A...
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Making Choices
When choosing what foods to eat, there are a lot of factors to consider. To help make the decision a little easier, young learners work in small groups developing short plays, stories, or advertisements that address the different issues...
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Go To Sleep, Gecko!
Second graders examine the interdependence of organisms using the book "Go To Sleep, Gecko!" They examine a variety of food chains, listen to the book, and answer story comprehension questions. Students then conduct research on food...
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Food Acrostic Poem
In this creating an acrostic poem activity, learners read the definition and example of an acrostic poem and write one using the word FOOD. Students write a 4 line poem.
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Go to Sleep, Gecko
Use this multidisciplinary lesson to delve into these subjects: English language arts, math, science, drama, and character education. After reading, discussing, and making interpretations about Go To Sleep, Gecko!: A Balinese Folktale by...
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Vocabulary Worksheets - Reading: The Food Pyramid
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read a passage about the food pyramid and then answer 8 multiple choice comprehension questions.
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Reading: The Food Pyramid
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a one page text about the food pyramid. Students then complete 8 sentences with the correct words from 2 choices.
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What Color Are These Foods?
In this categorizing words worksheet, students fill out a chart in which 12 different kinds of food are sorted according to their color. Students write the name of the food in the column with the color name.
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Food Groups
For this food groups worksheet, students choose two words from the word list that belong in each of 7 food group categories. The groups are: dairy, poultry, grains, proteins, vegetables, fruits and junk food.
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Worksheet 2: Time and Food Words
In this time and food vocabulary skills worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 7 sentences with the appropriate words from the word bank.
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Do the Research! Food
In this research topics worksheet, students discover little known facts about food as they research the answers to 3 questions.
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Spooky Spiders-- Multiplication
In this math/cooking worksheet, learners learn to multiply while figuring our how many of each ingredient for spooky spiders will be needed for a class cooking project. Students draw pictures and calculate amounts for the pretzels,...
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Bank On It ! Worksheet: Food
In this health worksheet, students study 10 terms in a word bank which pertain to healthy eating and avoiding saturated fats. Students fill in the blanks in a paragraph so the sentences make sense. The words in the word bank are not...
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Count and Non-count Nouns- Food
In this grammar worksheet, students complete 5 lists of count or non-count nouns with the one that belongs from the word bank at the top of the page. They see colorful clip art pictures of fruit, cheese, fish, and pasta.
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An Astronaut's Journal: Snacks and Beverages
In this snack and beverage worksheet, students place a check beside all the words that can complete the 10 sentences logically.
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Food Chop: Word Puzzle
In this word puzzle worksheet, students put words about food that have been "chopped in half" back together again, writing the completed words at the bottom of the page.
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Anansi Goes To Lunch - First Grade
Greed is the theme of this collection of multidisciplinary activities. As a class, read The West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby Norfolk, and take part in a grand discussion about it's plot and theme. Reinforce the theme...
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Stone Soup
Sharing and cooperation are difficult skills for kindergartners to grasp. Using the story Stone Soup and a series of activities, kids learn about the benefits of working together, categorizing and comparing items, and eating healthy foods.
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An Astronaut's Journal: Snacks and Beverages
In this completing sentences worksheet, students fill in the blank in ten sentences by checking all the words that can complete the sentence logically.
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Worksheet 6: Reading: Recipe for Beignets
Travel to New Orleans for their warm, sweet beignets, or bring a piece of New Orleans to your classroom by baking the delicious treats with your third and fourth graders! If baking them isn't possible, at least review the recipe for a...
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Holy Mole
Third graders explore the Mexican sauce Mole and the culture of Mexico. In this Mexican culture lesson, 3rd graders find Mexico on the map and access prior knowledge about the country. Students discuss Mexican foods. Students read...
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Greenewables
Learners form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...
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Articles A /An and Noun Classification
For this singular nouns worksheet, students classify words as foods, animals, or occupations and write a/an before the nouns. Students list eleven words.
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What's on Sale?
Students explore sale items. In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper. Students identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts. Students complete a math...