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Reading: How to Be Healthy
In this reading for information activity, students read a one page text about healthy living practices. Students then answer 8 multiple choice questions about what they have read.
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Picture Perfect Pyramid
Students investigate the concept of the food pyramid. The lesson plan includes background information for the teacher to lecture students about the food pyramid. They construct a model of the pyramid using cereal boxes. The projects...
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Packaging and Transport
Young scholars examine the methods by which food is packaged and transported to their dinner tables. In this packaging and transporting lesson plan, students explore how machines help people grow food. Young scholars also obtain...
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The Grain Game
Students read and discuss origin of cereal, use pieces of cereal made from grains grown in Oklahoma to play counting game, name their favorite breakfast cereal, guess which grains are used to make their favorite cereals, and read...
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Food
After reading two paragraphs about food, students must answer 4 questions about what they have read. This is a great worksheet to practice reading comprehension, and would be very helpful practice prior to state testing. The writing...
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PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMID
Middle schoolers create a model of the USDA's Food Pyramid Guide, using shoe boxes. They bring an assortment of shoe boxes from home. Students are given a copy of the "Food Guide Pyramid." They wrap boxes for the bread group in white,...
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Little Red Hen
Pupils listen to a teacher reading of The Little Red Hen, identify the story elements and sequence them. They talk about different jobs associated with providing food and act out a play based on the story. Be aware that although several...
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Yeast Blowup
Students experiment to determine if yeast is a microorganism. In this yeast blowup lesson plan, students mix yeast with other ingredients and observe the results by using a balloon. Students adjust the amounts of the ingredients and test...
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Pizza Portions
Students explore mathematics by participating in a pizza pie activity. In this nutrition lesson, students identify the caloric intake in a piece of pizza and estimate the average number of slices eaten by a person. Students utilize...
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Daily Edits Proofreading: Wheat
For this editing and proofreading worksheet, students read 4 short passages about whet, re-writing with corrections. Correctly written passages are included on page 2.
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MyPyramid for Kids
Students explore healthy food choices. In this science lesson, students identify food groups and discuss the amount of food they should eat from each group. Students create PyramindPal cartoons.
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Fossil Formation
Students discuss fossils. In this science lesson, students simulate fossils within Earth's layers by using gummy fish and bread.
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Agriculture in Motion
Young scholars discuss agriculture. In this farming lesson, students compare farming practices from the past compared to when machines were introduced. They discuss this concept as a class and participate in multiple activities. This...
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Agriculture in Motion
Youngsters learn about simple machines that could be used on a farm. They learn about agricluture, listen to a farmer speak, compare and contrast different farm machines, and then design their own. Note that although the publisher...
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Farming 2: Packaging and Transport
Students explore the special packaging and transport that many foods require to stay fresh during their journey from the farm to people's dinner tables.
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The First Farmers
Students show how constant irrigation, with repeated evaporation of water that left salts in the soil, eventually ruined much farming land in southern Mesopotamia. They discuss the idea that with the development of irrigation people...
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Building a Better Body
Fourth graders investigate the six essential nutrients. They read a handout, discuss the six nutrients, and construct a sandwich using ingredients that belong to the nutrient groups.
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Nutrients for Plants and People: Food Pyramid Garden
In this garden worksheet, students plant different types of food from the food pyramid into a garden and write a journal about all of the food. Students plant 4 levels of food from the food pyramid.
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Corn Field Math
Students complete problems dealing with whole numbers, fractions and percents. After exploring the history of corn and related farming vocabulary, students work in pairs to solve multi-step problems. They incorporate the use of number...
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Nouns
In this noun instructional activity, students learn what a noun is. Then they choose the correct noun from three options to complete a sentence. There are five sentences to complete.
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Corn in Legend and Myth
Seventh graders compare myths and legends about corn and use creative abilities to act them out. In this corn legends lesson, 7th graders read background information about corn and its importance. Students work in groups to research...
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Corn in Ancient America
Students explore the importance of corn to the survival of early civilizations of the Americas. Through research and discussion activities, they read and describe how corn was used as food and currency in early civilizations. They...
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Nutritional Needs
Pupils determine caloric needs for an active person and what role nutrition plays in one's energy, In this nutritional needs lesson, students discuss the definition of calorie and identify high calorie foods. Pupils work...
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ESL: Count and Non-Count Food Partitives
In this ESL food partitives worksheet, students complete 20 multiple choice questions, filling in blanks with correct partitives of items, clicking on an answer button to check for accuracy.