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Food Pyramid-Planning a Healthy Meal
Students identify the five basic food groups. They use their knowledge of the food pyramid to plan a full meal that incorporates at least one serving of food from each group. Pupils classify their ingredients according to the food groups.
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The Human Body
Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...
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Your Energy In
Help your youngsters make considerations about what they eat. Use this instructional activity as a jumping-off point to discuss dietary guidelines, the food pyramid, and major food groups. This creative instructional activity grabs...
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Simple Keys and Nutrition
An inventive and engaging lesson on nutrition, food groups, and the food pyramid is here for you. In it, young dieticians learn about the basics of nutrition. They use the book, Frog and Toad are Friends, to help them foster discussion...
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Eating Our Way to a Healthy Body: Classifying Foods
Learners examine the major food groups. In this classifying foods lesson, students discover the 5 food groups as they read books and play games. Learners then sort foods into the appropriate food groups
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Healthy Eating
Fourth graders learn the five basic food groups and what each one consists of. They develop an understanding of why eating healthy is important. They have background knowledge in healthy eating due to the exposure in previous health...
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Food Pyramid
Students identify good nutrition. In this food pyramid lesson, students learn the basics of good nutrition, identify the six basic food groups, state the effects of the food on the human body, and learn nutritional information while...
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Growing a Native American "Three Sisters" Garden
Students explore plant life by creating their own gardens in class. In this food growing lesson, students discuss the types of gardening methods Native Americans used in order to keep healthy. Students plant corn seeds in their school...
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Habitat Basics
First graders get out and explore two different habitats to examine how each one meets the needs of the plants and animals that dwell there. They discuss what they've learned about animal habitats as they explore the outdoor environment....
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Nutrition
Students create a video incorporating clay animation and skits. Using their video creation, students explain and explore the five basic food groups, nutrition news, nutrients, benefits and food examples. They maintain a food journal,...
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THE FOODS WE EAT
Students discuss the five food groups and the seven basic nutrients. They decorate Food We Eat booklet pages with pictures of foods found on background, rubber stamp and animation tools in KidPix. (Booklet has a page for each food group.)
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Nutrition Unit
First graders complete activities for the six basic food groups. In this food groups lesson, 1st graders view examples of food samples from the various groups and sample the foods. Students discuss the food pyramid and draw a fruit or...
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Nutrition and Food Security
Examine the three basic nutrients and their effects on the body. Fifth graders will research data to construct a bar graph and then demonstrate the relationship between malnutrition and food security. This is a very comprehensive...
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Calcium Counts
Students evaluate the food pyramid. In this dairy nutrition lesson plan, 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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Home Living / Daily Living Lesson Plan—Mastery Healthy Food
Everyone needs to know how to eat well to stay healthy. Learners with mild disabilities log what they eat, discuss food choices, and review healthy foods. The lesson could be used to foster living skills in high-functioning individuals...
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Our Daily Five
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Understanding My Pyramid
Students examine the food pyramid and construct a healthy meal. In this food pyramid lesson, students examine the new food pyramid that includes fats and oils, and is arranged with brightly colored triangles. They use grocery store adds...
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What's on My Plate?
Kids work together in groups to discuss and understand the differences between a typical diet and a healthy one. They use the My Plate recommendations to compare what they eat with what they should be eating according to the MyPlate...
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Your Energy In
What are Dietary Guidelines? What are the basic principles of a sensible healthy diet? What do variety, balance, and moderation have to do with eating healthy. What are the food groups? There are a couple of activities in this...
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Basic Biochemistry - Carbohydrate, Protein and Fat
You are what you eat, right down to your molecular structure. A hearty presentation begins with the two types of carbohydrates, simple and complex. Then it details proteins and amino acids. It ends by reviewing the three types of fats,...
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Taste Buds
Students investigate taste buds. In this taste buds lesson plan, students identify the four basic taste buds and their locations on our tongue. Students participate in an experiment to investigate how our taste buds work.
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Food Pyramid Nutrition Puzzles
Students put together food group puzzles on the computer and identify the healthy message in the end. In this food lesson plan, students identify the food group that the puzzle is representing as well.
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Oh Heron
Two teams—the environmentalists and herons—play four rounds of the game, Oh Heron. Using hand symbols to represent food, shelter, and water, players locate their match to produce more herons while those unmatched decompose.
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Wetland Food Webs
Students study life science. In this food webs and food chains comparison lesson, students examine the wetlands to discover the relationships that exist between the animals that live there. They participate in group activities and...