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How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions.  In this personal health lesson, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations.  Students complete the "Rate That...
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Jr. Chef Club Super Snacks Lesson 6

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore healthy snacks. In this nutrition and cooking lesson, students observe and identify food groups on USDA's MyPyramid food guide. Learners discuss how fiber helps our digestive system and follow a recipe using yeast to...
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Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify healthy food choices. In this nutrition lesson, students review the food pyramid and write down their favorite food on a post-it note. Students create a bar graph of favorite foods using the post-it notes.
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Nutritional Needs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete work at six stations as they investigate children's nutritional needs, kitchen safety, and snacks. First, they listen to Dr. Seuss', "Green Eggs and Ham" before discussing nutrition and the station activities. At each...
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District Wide Jump Rope For Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a district American Heart Association Jump Rope event. They meet students in their age from other schools in a social setting. Students come to the High School gym on a Saturday morning in February. They are...
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Good For You?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss nutrition and compare nutritional values of a snack product claiming health benefits with a candy product.
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Smart Snacking Ideas

For Teachers Higher Ed
Educate parents on obesity prevention using these discussion points, specifically geared toward families of preschoolers. You will need to add to this, as it is mostly an outline of topics and objectives.  Concepts include healthy...
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Food Pyramid Abacus

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine the importance of eating a healthy balanced diet. They read and discuss an article about the Food Guide Pyramid, and construct a Food Pyramid Abacus.
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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. For this nutrition lesson, students examine an interactive food pyramid and discuss the healthy alternatives to their typical diets. Students complete a flash card activity...
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Smoothie Recipes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils discover ways to use fresh fruits in a healthy snack. In this cooking lesson, students are given recipes to make smoothies using different types of fruits.
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Snacks

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study how healthy snacks are a better choice and the results of unhealthy snacking.  For this healthy eating lesson students examine how to choose good healthy snacks.
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Smart Snacking

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students define what a snack is in their own words. In this adult health lesson, students discuss the benefits of eating healthy snacks. They give examples of new healthy foods then can serve for snacks.
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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 lesson students complete several activities that have to do with...
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Fit or Fat?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about health by creating healthy snacks, healthy menus, and recording their fat intake with certain foods. In this health lesson plan, students also focus on how exercise can help them stay healthy and loose unhealthy weight.
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Tasty, Nutritious Rice Snacks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders determine how rice can be made into nutritious snacks. In this nutrition lesson, 5th graders examine different types of food that is made from rice such as puffed rice, rice cakes, and risotto. They visit a market to find...
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Building Blocks and Healthy Snacks

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete several activities to study healthy snacks. In this healthy diet instructional activity, students sing a song about healthy snacks. Students then make a list of the healthy snacks in the song and vote for their...
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Rate That Snack!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this nutrition worksheet, students keep track of all snacks eaten for a three day period. Students record the name of the snack, nutritional information, where and when it was eaten, and a rating by the student.
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Grab Quick and Easy Snacks

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this healthy eating worksheet, learners complete a maze. Students avoid the pictures of the "dead end" snacks high in sugar, fat and calories. There is a tuna pita sandwich recipe on the page.
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Balance Your Day With Food and Play

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this healthy living worksheet, students color a picture of a wild cat who is exercising in the park. Students find the 10 snacks and play things in the picture.
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Let's Go On a Snack Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this snack foods worksheet, students complete an English or Spanish snack food worksheet. Students complete a matching and coloring activity.
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Healthy Snacks. Healthy Packaging

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research how to select the most cost-effective snacks. For this consumer practices lesson, 4th graders compare packaging labels and come to conclusions on how cost effective the product is. Students discuss their findings.
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Trick or Fruit

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this health and diet worksheet, students circle all of the healthy snack choices from those given in a list on the page. They write a list of other good snacks on blank lines on the page. This worksheet is associated with the Junie B....
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Healthy Foods and Snack Foods

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Venn Diagram worksheet, students use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between healthy foods and snack foods.
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Breakfast of Champions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders classify foods using the food pyramid and write about the foods they eat. They distinguish between healthy and junk food and make healthy choices for their meals. They listen to the story "No Peas for Nellie" and discuss...