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Down The Hatch
Students investigate how food is digested. They go through the terminology of the digestive system and follow the steps to it from beginning to end. Students use technology tools to create presentations to illustrate the functions of the...
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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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Feel Your Fullmess
Students encounter certain conditions to know when to eat and how much they should eat. Students discover how to use flip charts and receive rewards with this lesson. Students assess all the five senses when dealing with various types of...
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GM Foods: Are They Safe?
Students examine the process for testing GM foods. They research benefits and hazards of a selection of GM foods. They also create images of new labels and marketing for GM foods.
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The Foods We Eat: Towards a Balanced Diet
Students list at least 10 different food items grown/produced in their community, identify what each food item contains and make a list of different food items which constitute a balanced diet. They bring in food samples and write food...
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Healthy Foods Help Me Grow
Students reconize how to choose healthy food and about why they need to eat healthy.
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Abbreviations, Substitutions, Equivalents Review Lab
Students apply and demonstrate, in a practical lab test, what they have learned from their previous classes by preparing cookies together. They use measuring knowledge, cooking terms, abbreviations, equivalents and substitutions.
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What's on Your Plate?
Students travel the world. For this global studies lesson, students research selected countries and investigate their cultural traditions.
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Plants We Eat
For this vegetables worksheet, learners respond to 3 questions where they identify plants that humans, rabbits, and bees eat.
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Explorit's Tasty Food Quiz
In this foods learning exercise, students complete a five question multiple choice online interactive learning exercise about foods that we eat.
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What Colour Is ...
In this color words worksheet, students examine 7 pictures of common food items. Students fill in the blanks in the sentences that begin with the words "What colour is the----?" Students answer the questions and color the pictures...
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The Food I Eat
In this food worksheet, students complete a word search containing food words. Students use pictures surrounding the word search as clues.
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Spring Harvest
Students engage in a lesson that is interested in the foods related to the season of Spring. They conduct research using a variety of resources while creating menus to match the regions of The United States. Students create food items...
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Family Life Cycle - Children's Lab
Young scholars review how their nutritional needs change over time. In groups, they design their own menu in which they get all the nutrients they need. To end the lesson plan, they share their foods with the class and complete a...
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Belonging and Identity
Students participate in a class in which they eat in different social groups. As a class, they discuss the importance of eating a healthy diet and how some foods are harmful to some but not to others. They use the internet to research...
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Mission Meals
Students engage in a investigation of the types of meals that astronauts eat in space while examining the types of nutritional elements needed for optimum physical tasks in space. They are given different foods and then document the...
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The Food Pyramid
Third graders investigate the concept of The Food Pyramid and its importance as a foundation for good health. They use the computer lab as a class to construct projects using the Kidpix software to make their own imitations of The Food...
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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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How History Changed the Way We Eat
Students participate in a lesson plan that is concerned with the history of the food pyramid and how it evolved and changed into its modern state. After being presented with the information they conduct classroom discussions about the...
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The Melting Pot: Diversity is the Spice of Life
Students identify from which continents different foods come, sample foods from other cultures, identify spices used around the world, and respect culture of others through food.
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Food for Thought
Third graders conduct a survey of their class' favorite foods voting on 3-4 favorites overall. They then go to the computer lab and examine how to produce a horizontal bar graph by graphing the favorite foods of the class.
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Healthy Snacks
Ninth graders examine teen attitudes towards snack food merchandising in schools and what contributes to successful food merchandising. The context for the lesson is found in the research conducted from the Health Canada Website.
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Seminole Traditional Foods
Students will identify and label Seminole foods in Miccosukee (native language) and English. They construct a chart on traditional Seminole foods and prepare a traditional Seminole meal.
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Chuukese Dinner (high School)
Students read journal entries about having dinner with a Chuukese family. Using this information, they identify which foods sound appealing and compare and contrast Micronesian and American foods, fruits and vegetables. In groups, they...