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The Human Organism

For Teachers 3rd
For this digestion and nutrition lesson, 3rd graders test foods to find their vitamin content. Students test for starch and fats then compare their findings on charts and oral reports. The lesson concludes with a teacher directed class...
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The Magical Ingredient: Fat

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore fats in foods. In this personal health and nutrition lesson, students view a Frontline video segment, examine the role fat plays in their personal diets, and develop plans to eliminate fats and implement exercise...
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So Sweet

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students compare sugar levels in cereals.  In this nutrition lesson, students learn how to read a nutrition facts label, predict which products will have the most sugar, discover which cereals contain the most sugar and discuss their...
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Mended Hearts, Broken Hearts, Healthy Hearts, Half-Hearted

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students integrate locomotor movements with nutrition information. They solve simple math functions related to the calories-per-gram contents of each nutrient and perform fitness activities to match the number of calories contained in...
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A Meal of Endurance

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students evaluate the nutritional value of the explorers' meals. This is done through analyzing caloric intake versus caloric expenditure, describing the trend in diet change that explorers experienced over a two year expedition, ...
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The Magical Ingredient: FAT

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine how the diet industry is contributing to our frustration over unwanted pounds. They identify the part fat plays in their diets and determine if they live in a food toxic environment.
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Micronutrient Need Intervention

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the real world applications of nutrition. They study the problem of starvation and how it affects different populations. Students work in small groups in order to devise and intervention plan. They also search out...
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Good For You?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners discuss nutrition and compare nutritional values of a snack product claiming health benefits with a candy product.
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Computation: How can we use rice to solve problem questions?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders graph metric tons of rice produced by various countries.  In this graphing instructional activity, 4th graders follow problem solving steps to answer questions about rice nutrition and then graph the amount of rice...
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The Thanksgiving Meal

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make a Thanksgiving meal based on the nutrition of the colony they were assigned. In this nutrition lesson plan, students' parents come in to taste the food after the students explain their colony to them.
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Dietary Guidelines

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study the dietary guidelines and what they do.  In this healthy eating lesson students study nutrition labels and calorie needs.
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Preventing Picky Eaters

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine how to encourage proper eating habits in children. In this nutrition lesson, students explore ways to encourage picky eaters to eat healthy foods. They discuss eating habits that include behavior and nutrition.
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"Four" Goodness Sake

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize that ethnicity, religion and geography are reflected in the food choices we make. In this food choices lesson, 4th graders discuss different types of food from different places. Students compare a menu to the...
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What's Cookin'?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine their eating habits. In this nutrition lesson, students will journal their eating habits over a period of three days. They will use a diet analysis web page to determine the nutritional factors of their eating habits.
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Read That Label!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore reading nutritional labels and making good food choices through simulation. They prepare and design a label for a product. In addition, they create packaging and advertising to ensure access to the population.
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Health, Health, Hurrah!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explain the importance of eating healthy food. In this health science lesson, 3rd graders construct a balanced menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They create a collage about it and share it with the class.
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A Billion Hungry People

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover the inequality of food distribution.  In the hunger lesson, students discuss how some places and people do not get the food they need to survive. Students role play distributing pretend meals to people (of unequal...
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Mmmm, Mmmm ... and Good

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider their own diets and examine an op-ed article about organically produced foods. They research alternatives to various foods for the creation of a supermarket and reflect on their own diets after keeping a food journal.
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Activity Plan 3-4: Scrumptious Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover together that shapes are everywhere - even in the food we eat. In this early childhood math and art lesson, students read about shapes, identify foods that match geometric shapes, and create a class book.
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Coming Soon: Sodas with Vitamins

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars react to a series of statements about sodas, then read a news article about the addition of vitamins to sodas to increase sales. In this nutrition and current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a...
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World Hunger

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the benefits of balanced nutrition. For this service learning lesson, students read Beatrice's Goat and create a poster featuring the Heifer International Project.
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Good Health

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete a unit with cross-curricular activities to learn about a healthy body and maintaining their health. In this health instructional activity, students complete 8 lessons to learn about good health, a healthy diet, healthy...
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Colorful Nutrients

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars participate in an experiment to understand how plants get nutrients. For this plant nutrition, lesson students examine how colored water goes through the stem of a plant to the flower. Young scholars discuss the parts of...
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Cancer

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study cancer and possible preventative measures.  In this cancer lesson students study the claims on food labels and ways to lower your risk of cancer. 

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