ESL Kid Stuff
Vegetables
Help your learners exercise healthy eating habits with a series of activities about vegetables. Kids learn about common vegetables with songs, matching games, flashcards, and crafts.
Elementary CORE Academy
Food Foldable
There's nothing as satisfying as a crunchy carrot or a juicy apple! Teach your middle and high schoolers about healthy eating habits with a set of nutrition activities. After analyzing the model of the food pyramid, learners apply the...
Curated OER
Modeling Good Eating
Students identify and classify the items in a healthy diet. In this dietary lesson, students listen to a song about healthy eating while listening for good snack foods. They use pictures of the snacks to complete a large chart by...
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Snack Smart, Move More
What do lowfat yogurt, baby carrots, fresh fruit, and rice cakes have in common? They are all healthy snacks that can be eaten daily. Investigate healthy eating/snacking guidelines, learn how to make lowfat ice cream and practice some...
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Eat Smart with MyPyramid for Kids
Students investigate food examples from the food groups to explore a healthy diet. In this healthy eating lesson, students study the food pyramid and complete related worksheets. Students also play pyramid go fish.
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Eat A Rainbow!
Learners demonstrate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. For this nutrition lesson, students identify and sort different fruits and vegetables by colors. Learners list reasons why eating fruits and vegetables are important...
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Summer Nature Activity: Carrots! Carrots!
Young scholars investigate reading, cooking, and planting activities that teach that a carrot is the root of a plant. In this early childhood science lesson, students explore the world around them as they read The Carrot Seed and...
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Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others
Students use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid activity, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups. Students participate in cross curricular activities...
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Carrot Cake with Fractions
In this carrot cake recipe worksheet, students receive the recipe to make a whole carrot cake and determine the amount of each ingredient that would be needed to make half of the recipe. They determine half of the amount for flour,...
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Winnie the Pooh
Students color pages, eat carrots, read books, and more to learn about Winnie the Pooh. In this Winnie the Pooh lesson plan, students also play a bears musical chairs game.
Captain Planet Foundation
Plant Parts Salad
How are vegetables beneficial to a healthy diet? Have kids examine different types of vegetables, such as zucchini, broccoli, and carrots, and determine which parts of the plant they represent. Then, they taste the vegetables as a...
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Rabbits
Students read books, learn about the letter r, and eat carrots all to learn about rabbits. In this rabbits lesson plan, students also do the bunny hop and make rabbits out of play dough.
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I Eat (Beginning Reader Booklet)
In this beginning reader learning exercise, learners cut out and put together a 5 page booklet. Students read the sentence on each page and color the different foods that go with the sentences that all begin with "I eat.."
Captain Planet Foundation
Fall into Healthy Shapes
Kindergartners identify geometric shapes by planting a fall garden. They start their seeds in containers that have different shapes, and keep track of their plants based on those shapes. This brilliantly designed and incredibly thorough...
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Carrot Bunch
Second graders solve a variety of math addition word problems related to planting and cooking carrots. They discuss a story from their math storybook, then read and solve a carrot word problem on a worksheet as a class. Students then...
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Flower Pot Salad Bar
Students discuss the connection between a flower pot and wholesome food by creating a salad. In this healthy eating activity, students utilize numerous fresh vegetables to create a classic salad in a flower pot. Students...
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Basic Food Items
Young scholars explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson plan, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Young scholars...
Choose My Plate
MyPlate Word Search
Encourage healthy eating, cooking, and goal setting with a word search that showcases a variety of fruits and vegetables, and provides a four-step plan to eat more of them.
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Energy Plus!
"Energy Plus!" from Together Counts is three days worth of lessons, discussions, and activities about nutrition. The materials help you teach youngsters about eating healthy and burning calories. Energy in and energy out. Included are...
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Plant Parts We Eat
I bet the kids in your class will love to eat their vegetables after an engaging lesson about edible plants. They read information about vegetables and edible plants, sort vocabulary words, identify plant parts, measure and graph the...
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Carrot Sticks or French Fries?
Students investigate the influence of fast food brand names on food choices and analyze the factors that contribute to branding preferences. They write an opinion essay on the corporate responsibility to influence food choices.
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Did You Eat That! - Food Graph
In this health and diet instructional activity, students ask ten of their friends what their favorite vegetables are. Then they tally their votes and shade them in on the graph provided.
Do2Learn
Home & School: Food
What a treat! Help learners identify some of their favorite foods with this set of 24 picture cards. The set includes images of everything from pizzas and hamburgers to grapes and carrots.
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Eat Your Vegetables Alphabet Activity
In this alphabet activity worksheet, students review the vegetable vocabulary words. Students then alphabetize the words onto the 25 lines.