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Eating Utensils
In this practical living worksheet, students focus on the usage of eating utensils. Students cut out the foods provided and paste them on the plate with the fork or the spoon according to that which would be used.
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A Place at the Table
Twelfth graders set up a formal table setting in their classroom. Individually, they identify the proper serving or eating utensil for the various courses of a meal. To end the lesson, they discuss and role-play proper table manners and...
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Vegetable Party
Students classify vegetables and eat them as a salad. In this multi-disciplinary science and health instructional activity, students bring various vegetables to school and classify them in several different ways. Then with parent...
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All About Arthropods
Use a dichotomous key to classify these squirmy bugs. A paragraph provides fifth graders with some background knowledge on the animal kingdom, and explains how to use a branching key for classification. They then determine which bugs...
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Home Living / Daily Living: Personal Hygiene—Use of Napkin
Staying clean is a big part of staying healthy and looking good in the community. Personal hygiene and napkin use are the focus of this activity. Your class will eat a messy food, look in a mirror to see if their face is messy, then...
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Jr. Chef Club
Students examine the food pyramid. In this health/math lesson students make biscuits. Students are assigned a group to measure out ingredients. Students also discuss which part of the food pyramid biscuits fall into and the nutritional...
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Chopsticks
Learners investigate the purpose and history of chopsticks and their use as a way of eating. In this social studies lesson, students gain insight into other cultural practices and learn to use chopsticks. Learners complete two worksheets...
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I Like to Move It
What do lemurs do best? They move! Lemurs like to jump, run, hop, and climb and it's your class's job to document seven fun lemur behaviors. The class starts by discussing why lemurs are considered primates, and then they isolate seven...
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Eating Senegal Style
Students demonstrate how to eat as Sengali people. They present information to the class about an individual eating tradition in their family. They prepare a recipe and eat it Senali style.
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Eating Senegal Style
Students demonstrate how to eat as the people do in Senegal. Students present information to the class about an individual eating tradition in their family.
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Darwin's Finches
Try a twist on the old finch beak and chopsticks activity by using M&Ms on a Twister mat. Spoons, knives, forks, and chopsticks represent beaks and are randomly assigned to your little birds, who must collect as much food as possible...
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Cooking Super Star Meals with Kids
Students explore the benefits of allowing and providing specifically designed age-appropriate cooking experiences for young children. They "cook" a variety of creative, healthy dishes designed for 3-5 year-olds to make and to help them...
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Ocean Exploration
Students explore whales. In this animal adaptation and whale lesson, students access prior knowledge about whales from previous lessons, then use background knowledge to predict the eating strategies of a baleen whale and a toothed...
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Fractions in Everyday Life
Students apply understanding of fractions by converting a recipe to feed the class and the whole grade level. They calculate how many cookies the class would eat and multiply each fraction in the recipe accordingly.
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Food Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines
Students examine Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines. They look at samples of serving sizes, sort different foods into their correct groups, complete worksheets to discover which types of foods they eat regularly, and discuss...
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The Whole Trut about Whole Grain Breads
Students comprehend the nutrition benefits whole grain breads. They explore how to overcome the common barriers to eating whole grain bread. Students investigate how to choose and store whole grain breads. They comprehend the...
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Bird Buffet
Fifth graders investigate how birds use their beaks. In this agriculture activity, 5th graders use tools to simulate how birds gather food with their beaks. They then draw conclusions about certain types of beaks and what types of food a...
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Pre-K Appetizer
Students understand there are healthy and not healthy food choices. In this food pyramid lesson, students learn to make healthy choices by playing a traffic light game. Students recognize raw foods from the farm may not be ready for...
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Minding Your Manners
Students practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.
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Rice is Nice
First graders explore Japanese foods through fairy tales, fiction and nonfiction books, cooking meals and eating with chopsticks. After all of the creative ideas have been utilized, the class holds a tea party for parents in the classroom.
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Pizza Fractions
First graders identify a whole and the fractions 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 using pizza. This is a very nice lesson, in that not only do students practice their fractions, they also get to eat the pizza at the end of the lesson!
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M&M Math
Students plan and make the M&M cookies, tally M&M's by color while eating cookie, and completing worksheet using math skills.
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M&M Math
Students research number values by participating in a candy exercise. In this math function lesson, students utilize baking ingredients to create cookies and multiply how many M&M's will go into the batch if you want a certain amount...
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Natural Selection
Pupils model natural selection by using various utensils to "capture food" using a simulated species called "Woolybooger's."