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Teaching Kids About Healthy Foods: Snacks Alternatives

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students inspect human health by participating in a class game. In this nutrition instructional activity, students examine an interactive food pyramid and discuss the healthy alternatives to their typical diets. Students complete a flash...
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Help Alicia Alligator Find the Yes Foods

For Students 2nd - 4th
 In this healthy foods worksheet, students circle the "yes" foods and cross out the "no" foods for what is healthy and not healthy. Students have 18 foods to choose from.
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Sioux Chef Sean Sherman: A Rebirth of Native American Cuisine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Many families have special dishes they serve during holiday celebrations and get-togethers. Many of these recipes have been handed down from generation to generation and often come with stories. Introduce your middle schoolers to the...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Staying Healthy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The third lesson in the Building Confidence module focuses on healthy habits. Middle schoolers engage in activities that underscore the need for a healthy diet, daily exercise, and a good night's sleep. They create customized food and...
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Organize Your Favorites (Food)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this healthy foods worksheet, students organize the names nutrient-rich foods into categories. Students also read passages about nutrition and respond to three short-answer questions.
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Be a Food Detective

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore how food is made and what are healthy and unhealthy eating habits. They participate in activities to further show them foods nutritional value.
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Health, Health, Hurrah!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explain the importance of eating healthy food. In this health science lesson, 3rd graders construct a balanced menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They create a collage about it and share it with the class.
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Food Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word search worksheet, students find and mark 22 healthy foods in the puzzle. There is a word bank for this medium difficulty worksheet.
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The Digestive Dance

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read food labels to compare healthy verses non healthy food and then use diagrams to create a poster of the digestive system. In this food lesson plan, students move the food down the digestive track along the digestive system.
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Making Choices

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
When choosing what foods to eat, there are a lot of factors to consider. To help make the decision a little easier, young learners work in small groups developing short plays, stories, or advertisements that address the different issues...
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Healthy Field Day

For Teachers K - 5th
Hosting a Healthy Field Day will take a lot of planning and organization, but with a lot of parent participation it can come together very well. The resource describes seven stations of the ten that were presented. Each of these has a...
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What Am I Missing?

For Teachers K - 8th
Discuss nutrition and identify components of a healthy diet, view a Food Guide Pyramid, and create a Personal Food Pyramid, listing all foods eaten in the past 24 hours. Compare food lists with the standard Food Guide and determine where...
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Food and Nutrition

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in an after school program that promotes decision making, cooperation, choosing healthy foods, recognizing and naming a variety of foods, state healthy benefits from eating healthy foods and involving oneself in...
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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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Fantastic Foods

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the health benefits of dark chocolate. They research other foods which they consider to be both healthy and delicious for a "classroom pantry."
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Healthy Food Color Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are scattered around the room preparing for a game of tag. As a class, they are to stay away from those that are "it" and complete the different locomotor skills as directed by their teacher. To end the lesson, they identify a...
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Health and Nutrition Lesson Plan: Learning Healthy Eating Habits With Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students distinguish healthy foods from junk foods. In this personal health and nutrition lesson plan, students make Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry. Students use the puppets to role play discussion about healthy eating.
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Healthy Foods Activity

For Students K - 3rd
In this healthy foods worksheet, students color pictures of healthy foods and cross out those of unhealthy foods. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Food and Drink

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Talk about healthy lifestyle choices... in Italian! Class members categorize food cutouts into a food pyramid and discuss why some items are healthier than others. The plan offers additional vocabulary reinforcement ideas for younger as...
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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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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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Backpacking - Lesson 4 - Planning a Menu

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Going on a backpacking trip? You need to plan your meals and your snacks for sustenance. Help guide your pupils in the planning of healthy foods to take, and to make sure there is just the right amount. Have students pair up to plan so...
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Studying the Food Pyramid

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the food pyramid and how to eat a healthy diet.  In this nutrition lesson, students use pictures to make charts of food from the different food groups, record the food they eat throughout the day, investigate the eating...
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Food Pyramid-Planning a Healthy Meal

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students 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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