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Grains Vocabulary
In this grains vocabulary worksheet, students select the correct vocabulary word for each picture of a grain, with the option of checking their answers.
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Trace and Read: Food
In this food words trace and read worksheet, students trace 15 food words 4 times each. Students use the extra space to write the food words independently.
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Climbing the Pyramid
Students examine the Food Pyramid to discover the foods they need to eat to have a healthy body. Using food brought to class, they must place the food in the correct category in the pyramid. In groups, they test food samples for fat...
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Kitchen Math - Levels I & II
Students examine mathematics as an important component of nutrition management and food preparation.
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Wheat Kernels Bar Graph
Third graders create a bar graph to record how many kernels were in a wheat stalk. They write in math journals two questions from interpreting the graph. They solve math problems from other students.
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It's Sugar Time!
Fifth graders examine how good health depends upon many things, including heredity, lifestyle, personality traits, mental health, attitudes, and the environment.
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Farm Products Help Me Grow
Students view a display of empty food containers (or illustrations). They select a food and decide as a class if it has an animal or plant origin. Students view a display of common farm animals that are commonly eaten (cow, pig, chicken,...
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Total English Elementary: Meet the Greens
In this how much and how many worksheet, students read a 2 paragraph passage about a healthy family and write questions pertaining to the 12 underlined items in the text. Students then fill in a graphic organizer with healthy food...
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How Much Nutritional Value Does Rice Really Have?
Fifth graders see the nutritional value of rice. For this healthy eating lesson, 5th graders view the Food Guide Pyramid and the number of servings one is supposed to eat in each food group. They focus on rice and its benefits for the body.
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Homophones
In this homophones worksheet, students will circle the correct homophone for each picture. There are two word choices for each picture.
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Food Groups
In this food group learning exercise, students will focus on vocabulary enhancement. Students will complete 7 multiple choice questions by reading each question and choosing the answer that depicts what is pictured to the left of each...
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Hunger and Your Community: The Drive
Students identify ways to contribute to their community. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students examine hunger facts and figures. They identify ways hunger, poverty and issues of poor health might be addressed. Students...
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Which Group?
In this food worksheet, students write which food group the given foods are in. Students complete 16 problems writing food groups.
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How Food Helps Me Grow!
In this food instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with words in a word bank about how food helps them grow. Students complete 7 sentences total.
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MyPyramid for Kids
Students explore healthy food choices. In this science lesson, students identify food groups and discuss the amount of food they should eat from each group. Students create PyramindPal cartoons.
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Grapevine Magic
Learners explore plant uses. Students observe the process of changing grapes to raisins as a method of preserving a plant part for human use.
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Food Group Craze
Students play a game to learn or reinforce prior learning of the food groups within the food guide pryamid.
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Nutrients In Our Foods
Students use the Internet to learn of, and research, information on health and nutrition. They study the six essential nutrients and explore the Food Pyramid.
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Investigating the Food Pyramid
Students examine how the food pyramid is an important nutritional tool. They classify foods and compare the number of servings per group that are necessary for maintaining good health by placing empty food containers in grocery bags.
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Diet and Nutrition
Students figure out the nutritional values of foods to explain the nature of a healthy diet by looking at fast food nutrition pamphlets and calculating the values of foods then comparing them to the food pyramid.
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A Well Balanced Meal
Students are given paper plates and pictures of food. They are to glue the foods they would eat that would make a balanced meal.
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Life Cycles
Third graders investigate the stages of animal life cycles. They examine an egg and compare it to an inanimate object, read a booklet about the life cycle and define key vocabulary terms, and observe a mealworm. Students then design a...
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Food Guide Pyramid
In this health worksheet, students read and compare the different food groups and analyze the number of servings recommended for each.
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Essential English: List of Common Homophones
In this essential English worksheet, students will read a list of more than 150 common homophones. The list is an alphabetical order and includes words like blue and blew.