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Worksheet
Curated OER

Help Carrie Crocodile with Her Food Choices!

For Students 1st - 4th
In this foods worksheet, students match the food into categories of yes, no, and maybe. Students complete this for 6 foods total.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid instructional activity, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups.   Students participate in cross curricular activities...
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Lesson Plan
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Cooking Matters

Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids

For Teachers K - 8th
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners create vegetable super heroes,...
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Assessment
Nemours KidsHealth

Healthy Snacking: Quiz (Grades 9-12)

For Students 9th - 12th
Test your learners' healthy snacking know-how with this quiz. This quiz is made up of 10 questions about how to choose a healthy snack. Topics include food labels, carbohydrates, healthy snack choices, and high-fat foods. Use this quiz...
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Lesson Plan
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Nemours KidsHealth

Healthy Snacking: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Snacks—even the word can conger up a hunger. Rapidly growing teens, especially, rely on snacks to get them from one meal to the next. After reading a series of articles about nutrition and healthy snack choices, pupils fill out a report...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Individual and Environmental Factors Affecting Food Systems and Choices

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners study the environmental factors that affect food systems and choices. In this food systems and health lesson plan, students study global and national information about obesity. Learners study photos and captions about the topic....
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Lesson Plan
Texas Heart Institute

Nutrition: How Do I Choose the Right Foods?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Young learners discuss how to practice healthy eating habits and the body's need for energy through discussion and exploration of the MyPlate system.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

One Kid Can Make A Difference

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students make a pledge to make three positive choices for 30 days and track their progress. In this positive choices lesson plan, students discuss ways in which they can be healthier, protect the environment, be respectful, and more....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Home Living / Daily Living: Importance of Keeping a Healthy Body Weight

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Prepare your special education class for a healthy life. They visit with a nutritionist, practice simple exercises, and discuss healthy food choices. They then make goals for weight loss and management. Additional supporting activity...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

There's a Rainbow on My Plate

For Teachers K - 4th
Students complete a variety of activities to learn about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students complete activity sheets, make a wall poster, create a take home flyer,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

From Seeds to Salad Bars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine different plants and discover how they can be sources of healthy food choices. They identify tips on how they can eat more fruits and vegetables during the day. They also prepare a recipe.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Labels

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study nutrition and the facts about food labels.  In this investigative instructional activity students examine food labels and the health facts and serving sizes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Life Science: My Pyramid

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how the school food program compares to the food pyramid recommendations. In this food pyramid lesson plan, students compile data regarding the food choices available in the school through the lunch program and vending...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Responsible Eating

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students identify healthy eating habits. For this nutrition lesson, students discuss the food pyramid and healthy food choices. Students track their daily food intake in a journal.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Pyramid

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this food pyramid worksheet, students read about the servings recommended for food group and tips about staying healthy. Students can also write their food choices for a day. The worksheet also includes a letter to the family and...
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Activity
Food Project

Trace The French Fry

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
How does locally grown produce sold at a farmer's market compare to a more complex industrial system in the way they each affect the environment, people, and the economy? Pupils explore the different types of food systems and how they...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Energy Balance - Lesson Unit 1

For Students K - 4th
There are four separate pages in this packet: What is energy balance, there is only one you, help Ira decide, and making healthy choices can be fun. The first one has a diagram of an old time scale. There is a box hanging from each side,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Child Nutrition Unit

For Teachers 7th - 10th
How much fun can you have teaching adolescents about nutrition? Try taking them to work with preschoolers for an hour! This 4-day mini-unit about the importance of nutrition early in life culminates with a field trip. It was written for...
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Unit Plan
CCEA

Home Economics: Teen Building

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Learners explore the emotional and nutritional needs of teenagers in a six-lesson unit, which covers such topics as food sources, cooking skills, emotional well-being, and the positive effect of food and family occasions. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Math

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore healthy habits by completing caloric measurement activities. In this food choice lesson plan, 4th graders discuss what types of foods give you protein or fat and utilize a food chart to measure caloric intake....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Heathly Foods Makes Heathly Body

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and identify foods on the food pyramid. They catergorize food and place them on the correct level. They discover why they should eat foods in moderation.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ordering For Yourself

For Students 4th - 10th
In this food choices worksheet, learners read the food choices, and decide which are high, intermediate, and low phe foods. Students look at 3 food choices and then answer 1 short answer question.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Healthy Choice Shopping Frenzy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils learn the categories of the food pyramid. In this food groups lesson, students learn to categorize food. Through this activity pupils scoot to different food groups learning about the foods that belong in each group.