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Eat Your Way to Five a Day!

For Students 3rd - 5th
This resource presents guidelines to follow to help you make healthy food choices and get the nutrients from fruits and vegetables that your body needs.
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Agri Food Trade Service: Agriculture, Food and Beverage Industry Tipsheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a collection of "fact sheets" offering details on Canada's various industries: Brewery, Dairy, Distillery, Fish and Seafood, Egg, Fruit, Grains and Oilseeds, Honey, Poultry, Red Meat, and more.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Food Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site from EnchantedLearning.com provides food-related activities including nursery rhymes, printables, crafts, and quizzes. Includes pages on the food pyramid, food terms in other languages, famous paintings, and a feature on the...
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Whole Kids Foundation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website was developed by the Whole Foods Market promotes the access to healthy food for all children. Students are encouraged to get excited about eating fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bees Are Master Pollinators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The study of biomimicry and sustainable design promises great benefits in design application. It affords means by which to promote cost-effective, resourceful, non-polluting avenues for new enterprise. These "blueprints" have existed...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Delivering the Goods: Watsonville. California 1895

For Students 9th - 10th
Railroads changed agriculture. As railways linked farms to a wider commercial world, city dwellers could buy fruits and vegetables year-round. Farms became commercialized, often specializing in single crops and tied to the ups and downs...
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Practical Action

Practical Action: Squashed Tomato Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Challenge students to take on a real-life problem affecting people in Nepal. Many farmers living on the mountainside there grow fruit and vegetables, including tomatoes. To earn a living, they need to sell these at the local market. The...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 8: Color Your World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and brainstorm ways...
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Other

The Philippines: Themes and Regions

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful site by a teacher who has a special interest in the Philippines. Themes include animals, corals, forests, fruit, typhoons, economics, history, and more. Great pictures.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Energy From Foods: Part I

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' will use fruits and vegetables to make an electrochemical cell and develop an understanding of how an electrochemical cell works. They will use a voltage sensor to determine which fruits and vegetables produce...
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Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Fao: Discovering Water Re Use

For Students 3rd - 8th
In some part of the world there is not enough fresh water for every use. If things are done differently water re-use can be very effective. Learn here about ways we can change the world. Wastewater, if properly treated can be a resource...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: You'll Get a Charge Out of This!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students make a battery using different fruits and vegetables, a copper penny, and a zinc washer. They use a voltage probe to collect data on voltage and compare the values of different batteries.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Most Nutritious Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson learners will write a persuasive speech for the Fruit or Vegetable of the Year Award. Nutrition information should be incorporated into this cross-curricular lesson.
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Other

Guinea Pig Compendium: Feeding and Nutrition

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site describes several common guinea pig foods, including hay, pellets, fruits, and vegetables. It also covers a guinea pig's need for Vitamin C, along with treats they enjoy.
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WebMD

Web Md: Apples Again Top 'Dirty Dozen' List for Pesticides

For Students 9th - 10th
Which foods are best when grown organic, and which ones are just as healthy for you when conventionally produced? This article lists types of fruits and vegetables from each category and explains why pesticide in food is an important...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Bringing the Market to the Farm

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This printable lesson discusses producers and consumers from an agricultural perspective. It focuses on choices that the consumer has with regard to purchasing agricultural goods (e.g. fruits and vegetables). As an example, it uses...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Balanced Diet

For Teachers 2nd
In this lesson, 2nd graders will learn about the components of a balanced diet. Students will analyze charts and then self-report their own foods in categories. Several fiction and nonfiction books are listed as additional resources.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries: Seed Catalogs

For Students 9th - 10th
Open a window into the world of botanical illustration by browsing this library of images reproduced on seed packets and seed catalogues from the 1830s through the 1930s. Flowers, vegetables, fruits, and related subjects included.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Acholi

For Students 9th - 10th
The name "Acholi" is used for peoples living in the former Acholi District of northern Uganda and the adjoining area of the southern Sudan. The primary language of Acholi today is Luo, a Western Nilotic language spoken by groups...
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Trent University

Mas Arriba: Las Frutas Y Los Postres

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a vocabulary practice for learning fruits and desserts. A colorful picture is displayed for each fruit and students are asked to type in the name for each. Audio and instant feedback under RESPUESTA make this an...
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Read Works

Read Works: Marathon Kids

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called Marathon Kids that is designed to teach children to be physically active. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Eat Right, Feel Great!

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text introducing the four food groups of a healthy diet. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Magic Tomatoes

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Luke who lives on a farm. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Curated OER

Argentine Fruit and Vegetable Vendor and Her Daughter at a Market

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive report on the food of Argentina. This site contains a detailed description of food history, food for religious and holiday celebrations, mealtime customs as well as many recipes!

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