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Importance of Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Prepare your class members for the performance task assessment on nutrition with an activity that asks class members to rank images of foods from least nutritious to most. Participants also offer reasons for why they ranked the foods the...
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Fast Food and Daily Nutrition Choices

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore food. In this nutrition instructional activity, students investigate multiple facets of healthy eating and how the fast food industry impacts our society. They will participate in class discussions, read from their...
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Children's Health on the Decline

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Demonstrate the importance of children's health with this cross-curricular activity, which includes elements from health and science as well as expository writing. Middle schoolers develop realistic and obtainable one week health and...
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Nutrition Action - Safe Food Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
Multiple-choice and true-false questions assess your high schoolers' understanding of food safety. This is an interactive worksheet in which learners can click on the correct answers to discover explanations. You could type the questions...
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ESL: Nutrition/Label Reading

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Assist your pupils in making healthy food choices with this lesson. First, have them bring in different kinds of food labels, and put a list of key words on the board (list is not included, but can be nutrition or health-related words)....
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Nutrition and Health and School Gardening

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine how healthy eating contributes to a healthy body and life style. They read nutritional labels on food items. They use the Five Foods Pyramid to evaluate their own eating habits. They plan, design, and create a school...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Health and Nutrition

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while extensively reviewing the vocabulary terms on the board, examine basic food groups along with their food labels to help maintain a healthy dies for proper health.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, after encountering an intense vocabulary list of health and nutritional terms, examine basic health care requests and issues that might come up in every day situations.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students analyze/recognize/identify basic body parts in connection to communicating productively on health and nutrition in the event that a need arises requesting medical attention.
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ESOL: Health and Nutrition

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the four food groups and how they contribute to one's health. They identify the four food groups and create a poster of the four food groups with pictures. They present their posters to the class and practice answering...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Health and Nutrition

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while reviewing the vocabulary list on the board, identify basic personal hygiene products/practices along with daily grooming routines. They discuss the importance of these routines socially and health wise on a daily basis.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Some Groups Have Higher Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Its Harmful Effects

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What age group among non-smoking Americans has the highest exposure to secondhand smoke? What racial group? What economic group? Statistics from the National Health and Nutrition council from 1999 to 2012 may just surprise you.
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Nutrition an Food: Taking Control of What You Eat

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine what they eat and how they can improve their health by changing what they eat. They research nutrition and different foods. They also examine new vocabulary words.
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Healthful Living

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders take digital pictures of people in healthful activities.  In this technology health lesson, 3rd graders use their digital pictures to create a healthy living multimedia presentation.
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Coffee & Chocolate: Knowing Healthy Foods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
An article relaying vital information about health and nutrition are the backbone of this lesson on eating the right foods. A series of activities are used to help upper graders understand the science supporting our understanding of what...
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School Lunches Get More Healthful

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read a story called School Lunches Get More Healthful and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current events school lunch lesson plan, student respond to literature by answering questions, recalling...
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Health and Nutrition ESOL

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students bring cans of food to class to study and compare labels. They discuss the different information included and the importance of good nutrition. They create a one day menu that would maintain a healthy diet. They role play...
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Make Your Health Count

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write down the meals they have eaten in the past few days and then research the calorie and fat content of at least 5 of the food items. They create a poster with the information they found and then put that information into a...
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Nutrition Plates

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate healthy eating habits by studying the food pyramid.  In this personal health lesson, students write a recipe for a healthy meal including one item from each section of the four food groups.  Students utilize images...
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Reading Comprehension: Obesity and Food Deserts

For Students 8th - 10th
Read this selection about "food deserts," places where high poverty rates limit access to healthy foods with your class. Six multiple choice questions on comprehension, inferences, vocabulary, and citing the text follow the selection and...
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Vending Machine Bans Increase in Schools Nationwide

For Teachers 7th - 11th Standards
Does a ban on vending machines infringe on student rights, or do school officials have an obligation to monitor foods sold on school grounds? Your class members will explore the educational, health, and financial issues related to...
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Making Healthful Snacks

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students examine how to make healthy snacks that include all the food groups and how to harvest, clean and eat fruits and veggies from the garden.  In this healthy snack instructional activity students complete several activities that...
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Balance of Nutrition

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore nutrition by completing a group activity. In this balanced meal instructional activity, students identify the five food groups and discuss their favorite foods from each group. Students utilize illustrations to fill in a...
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Health Fair

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students identify and research the aspects of a healthy lifestyle and create a Health Fair with the information. In this healthy living instructional activity, students research a topic about healthy living. Students then create a health...

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