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Breakfast: Healthy for Me and Healthy for the Environment
Students develop criteria for a healthy and environmentally friendly breakfast and use these criteria to design a breakfast menu. They use a decision chart to evaluate their choices which is imbedded in this plan.
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A Healthy Start To Every Day
Students discuss the importance of having a healthy breakfast to begin their day. Students develop a cause and effect relationship between breakfast and their overall well being. They work cooperatively to plan balanced breakfast menus.
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The Dentist
Students read a short story about visiting a dentist. Then they use toothbrushes in order to demonstrate the correct way to brush teeth. Students use the internet to investigate how some foods are healthier for teeth than others. Then...
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Making Healthy Food Choices
Students examine importance of making healthy food choices, discuss connection between what we eat and healthy body and heart, discriminate between healthy food or "heart-smart choices," and "junk food," and plan healthy meal or snack.
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups
Students review a variety of foods and classify them into food groups. They identify the benefits of each food group to our bodies and consider how deficiencies of these groups affect humans. They sort pictures, view a video and write...
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Healthy Food Choices
Students, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.
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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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Quick Breads, Pancake/Waffle Lab
Middle schoolers explore the bread, cereal, grain food group on the Food Guide Pyramid. They test recipes for quick breads which are high in carbohydrates and determine the purpose of each of the ingredients in pancakes or waffles.
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Let's Read! Tops & Bottoms
Students listen to the story Tops & Bottoms and learn the name of one vegetable which grows above ground and one which grows below ground.
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Let's Read! Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z.
Students listen to the story Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert, and try at least one new fruit or vegetable.
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Let's Read! Oliver's Vegetables
Students listen to the story Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French, and see, touch or taste at least one vegetable.
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Pedometer Calorie Counter Game
Students investigate food and calories. They examine the amount of work it takes to burn those excess calories.
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Using Product Labels
Students examine food labels. They conduct a food label hunt to determine if specific foods are safe and acceptable for people with specific food allergies. They study a variety of food labels to determine whether or not they would...
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THE FOODS WE EAT
Learners discuss the five food groups and the seven basic nutrients. They decorate Food We Eat booklet pages with pictures of foods found on background, rubber stamp and animation tools in KidPix. (Booklet has a page for each food group.)
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Our Healthy Bodies
Students complete a variety of activities designed to enhance their awareness of their bodies. They examine pictures of themselves, taken at various points in the year and examine and compare their bodies. They enjoy a healthy snack...
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A Funky Healthy Life Style!
Students name the five food groups and classify foods according to group. They tell how proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins/minerals, and water help their body. Students discuss how play and exercise can help their body.
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Where will "Brave Irene" take us today?
The pupils listen to and discuss the book "Brave Irene." The students then participating in creating a class web about a snowstorm. The pupils then independently journal about bravery. They conclude the lesson by creating an accordion...
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Nutritionist for Hire
Tenth graders role play that they are nutritionists devising a healthy dietary plan that focuses on the client's needs.
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Rate Your Plate
Third graders analyze the nutrients, calories, and food groups using the USDA CNPP website Interactive Healthy Eating Index. They write a summary of their personal findings related to their eating habits - including some ways to improve...
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Understanding Food Labels
Young scholars determine the number of calories, serving size, and vitamins and minerals in different food products and use this information to create a formula determining the number of calories per serving size and the daily...
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Happy, Healthy Me
Students become taste testers and experience an alphabet of nutritious snacks. They also discover more about their muscles and bones and the importance of exercise.
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Teaching the Identification of Vegetables
Students engage in various activities designed to them that vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet.
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Milk Moustache Photo Brochure
Students investigate the steps in creating a brochure using information about milk and its health benefits. Using expository writing, an information packet is created with pictures of students wearing their milk moustaches.
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Pyramid Play
Students investigate the concept of the Food Pyramid. They use a game as a tool of discovery in order to classify different types of food in the pyramid. Upon completion of the game the students construct their own models of it.