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Lesson 3: Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits
Students explore fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition lesson, students generate a list of all known fruits and vegetables. Students cut out and compile pages for a weekly fruits and vegetable journal. Students complete the journal...
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The Dentist
Students read a short story about visiting a dentist. Then they use toothbrushes in order to demonstrate the correct way to brush teeth. Students use the internet to investigate how some foods are healthier for teeth than others. Then...
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Healthful Eating
Students read a story about how cartoon characters are partially to blame for American's obesity problem, and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this healthful eating lesson plan, students respond to literature by...
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Apples
Second graders complete many cross categorical activities about apples. In this apples lesson plan, 2nd graders cook with apples, make a mobile, finger-paint, write a story about apples, and more. Students read poetry and complete math...
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I Think I Forgot Something!
Students examine human health by reading a children's book in class. In this breakfast lesson, students identify the importance of starting the day with a good, nutritious meal. Students read the book I Think I Forgot Something and...
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Yeasts and Molds: Food Science, Bacteria, Fungi
In this lesson students will consider the characteristics and nature of yeast and molds in order to help them understand how these microorganisms affect food production.
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Making a Grocery List
Student examine the benefits of making grocery lists. In this family budgeting lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to create grocery lists for selected meals that families may share.
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Countries, Food and Culture
Third graders explore food production by researching culinary culture on the Internet. In this global food instructional activity, 3rd graders read assigned text about the different dietary habits of foreign cultures based upon their...
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By Golly By Gum
Students identify the different steps in the scientific method. In this inquiry lesson plan, students determine the mass of the gum after chewing it for sometime. They explain what happens to the lost mass.
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Beef Is Good For You
Students discuss as a class the need for a healthy diet. They bring in a food product and analyze the nutrition label. Using the labels, they complete a worksheet and chart the nutrients found in beef. They use a scale to see how...
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Nutrition: Gregory the Terrible Eater
Students listen to a story about a goat who craves human food. They discover the four basic food groups and discuss what they might eat if they were terrible eaters. Students retell the story by looking at the pictures. They complete...
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What Do You Like for Breakfast?-- Class Bar Graph
In this math instructional activity, 3rd graders collaborate as a class to complete a bar graph showing what everyone prefers for breakfast. Students choose from pop tart/ breakfast bar, cereal, pancakes/waffles, or eggs. Students record...
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Nutrition and Fast Food: Making Informed Choices
Students identify the components of a balanced diet and their importance to good health. Students research their favorite types of fast food to determine how healthy they really are. Links to websites of popular fast food companies are...
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Iron For Breakfast
Third graders are challenged to use scientific thinking, they experiment and observe which objects are attracted to a magnet. Pupils use the evidence to construct an explanation as to what common property the objects attracted to a...
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Calcium Counts
Pupils evaluate the food pyramid. For this dairy nutrition lesson, students identify the position of the milk group on the food pyramid, then determine their daily calcium requirement and how they can meet that requirement.
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Chef Solus Cooking Academy Game
Students evaluate human health by participating in an interactive activity. For this food choice lesson, students discuss the decisions they make each day in order to stay healthy with the food they eat. Students utilize the Internet to...
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Graphing Our Snacks
Students gather information from Nutrition Facts labels on their favorite snack foods. They graph the fat content of the foods and reflect on what they see.
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Counting with Marshmallows and Licorice
Here's a tasty lesson on place value! Learners practice counting by ones and tens using mini-marshmallows and licorice sticks. They count and add the mini-marshmallows, and use the licorice sticks to represents tens.
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Goobers. Goobers? Goobers!
Students begin the lesson by noting the many ways in which to use peanuts. In groups, they use the internet to research the work of George Washington Carver. They discover the allergies and nutritional information of the peanut and...
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Apple, Apples Everywhere!
Students listen to the story of Johnny Appleseed. They create a chart of students favorite apples. They access the Internet and research nutritional information and facts about apples.
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SNACK SACK
The student will experience the concepts of ratio and production, using agricultural products considered snack foods. 2. The student will analyze and record information from the class experience.Bring in a wide assortment of packaged...
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Pyramid Play
Students investigate the concept of the Food Pyramid. They use a game as a tool of discovery in order to classify different types of food in the pyramid. Upon completion of the game the students construct their own models of it.
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Jr. Chef Club Making Brainy Breakfasts
Young scholars identify the benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast. In this nutrition lesson plan, students read food labels to identify foods that are low in sugar. Young scholars create a healthy breakfast by using eggs and low-fat...
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Delicious Dinners by Jr. Chefs
Young scholars create a protein-rich dinner. In this nutrition lesson, students brainstorm foods that are rich in protein. Young scholars make burritos and identify the color of meat when it is cooked thoroughly.