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Fishing for Foods
Young scholars practice using the food pyramid and know which food group familiar foods belong in.
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Does Your Diet Stack Up?
Students investigate the food pyramid. In this nutrition lesson, students review the food pyramid and construct a list of what they eat. Students review the nutritional value of their food list and brainstorm ways to improve their diet.
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Picture Perfect Pyramid
Students investigate the concept of the food pyramid. The lesson includes background information for the teacher to lecture students about the food pyramid. They construct a model of the pyramid using cereal boxes. The projects could...
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Organize Your Favorites (Food)
In this healthy foods worksheet, pupils organize the names nutrient-rich foods into categories. Students also read passages about nutrition and respond to three short-answer questions.
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Happy Food Song
Students learn a song. In this food lesson, students learn the Happy Food Song. Students are given a food model and identify their food. Students sing the song with motions.
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Weekly Meal Sheet
In this food diary worksheet, learners record the foods they eat from each of 5 groups on a chart that has spaces for each day of the week.
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Better Butter
Students explore the process of making butter. In this agriculture lesson, students discuss how butter is made today and how it was made in the past. Students make their own butter using baby food jars and some "elbow grease."
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PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMID
Students create a model of the USDA's Food Pyramid Guide, using shoe boxes. They bring an assortment of shoe boxes from home. Students are given a copy of the "Food Guide Pyramid." They wrap boxes for the bread group in white, the...
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Balanced Diet
Second graders investigate the concept of a balanced diet and how the food pyramid is organized. They conduct research using the links included in the instructional activity. They differentiate the parts of the pyramid while looking at...
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Food Model Mobiles
Students create mobiles that represent a day's intake or other criterion, such as healthy snacks, Milk Group foods, breakfast foods, etc.
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Milk
Milk: It does a body good ... or does it? Using the provided website, scholars sort through information to answer the question. They review a chart demonstrating lactose intolerance by ethnicity and region, and they also compare the...
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Chef Solus Word Search Puzzle!
In this milk group worksheet, learners locate and circle the following milk products, plus one extra word, in a word search puzzle: milk, skim, cheese, butter, teeth, yogurt and bones.
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Mater Your Munchies
Students explore the various food groups while doing a physical activity.
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From Moo to You
Students listen to a story about cows and identify foods made from milk. They have a tasting party and practice a finger play called "Five Mugs of Milk."
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The Pyramid of Power
Learners explore the food pyramid, nutrition, and how to plan a balanced diet. This fun lesson plan is well-planned and a great introduction to the food pyramid!
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How Do Foods Help Our Bodies
Students investigate the specific elements found in food that keep us healthy. For this healthy eating lesson, students identify proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins as part of a healthy diet when consumed in moderation....
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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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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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Rainbow Milk
Students complete activities to learn about rainbows and the importance of dairy in their diet. In this sense and diet lesson, students discuss rainbow colors, the importance of sight, and the importance of dairy in a healthy diet....
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Cancer
Students study cancer and possible preventative measures. In this cancer lesson students study the claims on food labels and ways to lower your risk of cancer.
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Concentration
Students recognize sets of food pictures. In this food concentration lesson, students match food names and models. Students who name the most correctly win the game.
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What's on Your Plate?
Middle schoolers discover foods of the Middle East. In this global studies lesson plan, students sample a falafel as they follow the provided instructions to make the dish.
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School Meals
Seventh graders identify three categories of calcium-rich dairy foods and compare the amount of calcium available in dairy foods versus vegetables. They explain the importance of dairy foods in their diets and identify at least one...
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Milk and Milk Products: Skills Supplement
Explain the coagulation and coalescence processes associated with milk protein and cheese. List the components of milk and explain how each component is dispersed in the milk. Describe what happens when milk protein is coagulated Discuss...