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Pick a Better Snack and Act
Students make healthy choices. For this healthy living mini-unit, students make healthy lifestyle choices through hands-on activities, songs and movement. This mini-unit includes lessons on the food pyramid, fruits, vegetable, and...
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Does Your Diet Stack Up?
Third graders explore nutritional variety. In this nutritional variety lesson, 3rd graders explore the many options for a healthy and well balanced diet. Students explore the food pyramid with nutritional guidelines from other countries.
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What's the Shape of Your Diet?
Fourth graders discover a healthy diet. In this healthy diet instructional activity, 4th graders compare their typical diet with the recommendations of MyPyramid for Kids.
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Where in the World?
Students evaluate botany by participating in a class discussion. In this agriculture instructional activity, students identify the importance of knowing where food comes from and they discuss what their breakfast consisted of and where...
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Grocery Store Problem Solving
Sixth graders explore the effect of healthy diets and exercise on physical and mental wellness. In this health activity, 6th graders compare food intake to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Students evaluate levels of activity and...
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Diet and Nutrition
Young scholars figure out the nutritional values of foods to explain the nature of a healthy diet by looking at fast food nutrition pamphlets and calculating the values of foods then comparing them to the food pyramid.
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Cooking Super Star Meals with Kids
Learners explore the benefits of allowing and providing specifically designed age-appropriate cooking experiences for young children. They "cook" a variety of creative, healthy dishes designed for 3-5 year-olds to make and to help them...
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Understanding Portion Sizes
Students analyze portion sizes in a healthy diet. In this portion sizes lesson, students complete a food group choices worksheet and identify the correct portion of food. Students work in groups to teach the unit to elementary students....
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Calorie Countdown
Fourth graders explore human health by identifying calories in food items. In this healthy eating habits lesson, 4th graders view the USDA food pyramid on the Internet and identify the choices they should be making each day. Students...
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Pizza Time!
Fifth graders explore healthy dietary guidelines. In this dietary guidelines lesson, 5th graders investigate fractional parts of a healthy diet using pizza as a visual aid.
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Label Language
Sixth graders explore healthy eating habits by identifying food labels. In this food ingredient lesson, 6th graders discuss the nutritional facts that are available on almost all foods in America and which ingredients and content is...
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Nutrition
Students determine the correct food group for any item of food and describe characteristics of foods within each group and their nutritional value.
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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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Mmmmm, I'm Good! But Am I Good For You?
Students explore the nutritional value of the potato, its role in the food pyramid, and how it can be a part of a balanced diet. In this potato nutrition instructional activity, students read about the nutritional value of potatoes....
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Calorie Countdown
Fifth graders analyze their caloric intake and energy output. In this nutrition and health lesson, 5th graders use the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to evaluate their personal food intake and activity level. Students explore the...
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Healthfully Ever After
Second graders discuss five food groups and healthy eating habits.
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Climbing the Pyramid
Students examine the Food Pyramid to discover the foods they need to eat to have a healthy body. Using food brought to class, they must place the food in the correct category in the pyramid. In groups, they test food samples for fat...
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Understanding MyPyramid
Fifth graders investigate serving sizes. In this serving size activity, 5th graders study the food pyramid paying special attention to proper serving sizes of food. Resources are provided.
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Balance of Nutrition
Students explore nutrition by completing a group activity. In this balanced meal lesson, students identify the five food groups and discuss their favorite foods from each group. Students utilize illustrations to fill in a fictional plate...
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Why Are People Hungry?
Learners discuss why many people don't have a balanced diet with nutritious food in order to not be hungry. In this hungry lesson plan, students learn what it means to eat healthy and start a service project for their community to help...
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Nutrition
Students examine nutrition and their own eating habits. In this healthy eating instructional activity students participate in several activities that include building a food pyramid and analyzing it.
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Breakfast, Off to a Good Start
Students discover the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast. In this adult health lesson plan, students compare the characteristics of breakfast eaters and nonbreakfast eaters. They examine cereals for their fiber and sugar content.
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Indian Corn
First graders demonstrate that eating combinations of food is very healthy. They discover that foods we eat today are similar to the foods the Pilgrims ate by categorizing the foods on poster board paper.
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Chew on This: Worksheets 1 - 5
In this fast food worksheet, students answer 21 questions pertaining to the fast food industry. It appears as though they should read the Chew on This article, but it is not included in this packet. This packet contains worksheets 1...
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