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Making Choices
Students work with a partner to write a play, story or ad that teaches about our choices as consumers. Students focus on educating people about how food choices make a difference in their lives.
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Pies: A Practical Application
Students participate in making a pie. They are to discuss the nutritional value and the different types of pies. They also answer questions from the teacher about fat and they complete a pie evaluation form.
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My Favorite Breakfast Foods
First graders consider the importance eating breakfast. For this breakfast foods lesson, 1st graders plan meals, examine a variety of breakfast options, and discuss the food groups. Students taste a variety of foods. Extension activities...
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Best Breakfast Authors
Third graders write a story. In this breakfast authors lesson, 3rd graders write about a breakfast food and why it is a good selection. Students may illustrate stories and share with their peers.
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Food Security/Insecurity
Students gain awareness of global patterns of food distribution. They are introduced to the concepts of food security and food insecurity. Pupils investigate the nutritional status of others around the world using information from the...
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What's in a Willow?
Learners study of nutritional value of edible native plants. discriminate between foods that have nutritional value and those that do not. They relate how food can affect how they think, feel, and perform.
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The Great Depression: Eating on a Shoestring
Students explore the realities of feeding a family on a very limited budget by comparing the cost of living in the 1930s to the cost of living today. Using primary documents and technology to make the comparison, they identify the impact...
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Fast Food: You Can Choose!
High schoolers research the nutritional value of fast food. They assess which fast foods are best and worst to eat. They organize their data into tables and graphs and explain their findings to other students.
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The Circulatory System - Part I
First graders consider what effect their behavior has on their health. Students make a fist to indicate the size of his/her heart. They complete a worksheet on the heart, coloring the arteries red and the veins blue.
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A Big Issue
Students examine the issue of childhood obesity. For this current events lesson, students explore the personal health issue as they discuss balanced diets, food diaries, and the 2012 London Olympics. Suggestions for classroom activities...
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Grab Quick and Easy Snacks
In this healthy eating worksheet, students complete a maze. Students avoid the pictures of the "dead end" snacks high in sugar, fat and calories. There is a tuna pita sandwich recipe on the page.
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Halloween Candy/ Sugar Content
Fourth graders examine the amount of sugar contained in Halloween candy by looking at nutritional labels from candy bars. They figure out ways to encourage people to reduce the amount of sugar they eat at this holiday. They look at the...
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Transforming Food Energy: A Balancing Act
Students explain their role as consumers. They use a purchased calorimeter or make their own simple calorimeter to measure the energy content in selected foods. This interesting lesson really gets students thinking about what they eat.
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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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You Are What You Eat (The 6 Main Nutrients Found in Foods)
Students study how carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water provide basic nutrients for body growth and function. They describe quality sources of the basic nutrients and the importance of water.
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All About HIV and AIDS
Learners use the internet to research the causes, effects and how AIDS is transmitted from person to person. In groups, they discover why women are more suseptiable to the disease. To end the lesson, they are introduced to the various...
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Building Blocks and Healthy Snacks
Students complete several activities to study healthy snacks. In this healthy diet lesson, students sing a song about healthy snacks. Students then make a list of the healthy snacks in the song and vote for their favorite. Students...
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Fun with Food: Hola Jalapeno
Students engage in an at-home instructional activity on language. It contains components that address Adult Education/ESOL, and age appropriate activities for Toddler, Preschool and School aged Students. Adults reinforce steps to prepare...
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The Dragon's Tail
Second graders read a story about Little D, a baby dragon, and how he interacts with the five food groups. They color, chant, pantomime, and discuss food groups after reading the story. They also consider causes and effects as they make...
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Food Pyramid-Planning a Healthy Meal
Learners identify the five basic food groups. They use their knowledge of the food pyramid to plan a full meal that incorporates at least one serving of food from each group. Pupils classify their ingredients according to the food groups.
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Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others
Learners use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid lesson, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups. Learners participate in cross curricular activities...
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Safe and Sanitary Work Habits - Level 1
Students brainstorm hazards in the kitchen, and categorize them. They develop a checklist that could be used by an inspector to evaluate a home economics foods laboratory. They create a recipe while using proper lab and safety procedures.
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Moooving to Low-fat Milk
Third graders complete two handouts. In this healthy beverages lesson, 3rd graders compare whole, two percent and skim milks. Students use labels to help choose healthy beverages. Students complete an "All About Milk" and "Calculating...