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Nutrition

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students determine which foods help keep our bodies healthy. They identify the six food groups and classify different food items into the correct categories of the food pyramid. They evaluate for one week the foods that they eat and...
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African life VS American life: Food and 3rd World and 1st World counties

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the difference in 3rd world and 1st world countries. In this social studies lesson, 3rd graders are divided into groups and given varying amounts of food. Students discuss the unfair distribution of the food....
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What Foods Contain Products from the Ocean

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn about foods from the ocean.  In this ocean products instructional activity, 5th graders brainstorm what foods come from the ocean, fill in a Venn Diagram comparing alginates, carrageenans and beta...
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Fatty Food

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore nutrition by participating in a balanced diet activity. In this eating habits lesson, students analyze their own diets and discuss the foods they have eaten that day. Students utilize grocery bags, scissors, Ziploc bags...
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Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.
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Food - What's in It for You?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine healthy eating and nutrition. They read and discuss articles, and create a list of ten healthy eating tips in the form of a poster, newspaper article, or presentation.
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Nutrients for Plants and People: Food Pyramid Garden

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this garden worksheet, students plant different types of food from the food pyramid into a garden and write a journal about all of the food. Students plant 4 levels of food from the food pyramid.
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Lesson 3: Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fruits and vegetables.  In this nutrition lesson, students generate a list of all known fruits and vegetables.  Students cut out and compile pages for a weekly fruits and vegetable journal.  Students...
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Sometimes And All the Time Foods

For Teachers K
Students utilize a picture of a lunch box and draw pictures of healthy food choices with which to fill it. The reasons for their choices of particular foods are discussed and the concepts of sometimes foods and all the time foods are...
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Food In Other Countries

For Students 5th - 6th
In this food in other countries instructional activity, students write a report on the food eaten in another country by researching what plants they grow and how they prepare the food, then present the report to a group.
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FACS: Sanitation & Food - Support Services (HST)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discuss the importance of proper food handling and sanitation by workers to ensure health and wellness. After watching a demonstration, they discuss how importance hand washing is to stop the spread of disease. To end the...
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Food Pesticides and Their Risks to Children

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine an industrial disaster in India which affected the food for generations to come. In groups, they research the history of pesticides and place them into groups based on the type of pests they control. They partcipate in...
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Food Safety From Food To Fork

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students are introduced to the concept of food safety. In groups, they distinguish between fact and opinion and cause and effect while participating in a board game. They write an essay about what knowledge they gained and review the...
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The Details of Kosher Foods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine kosher food, what it means and the rules that make it kosher.  In this kosher lesson students plan a kosher meal. 
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From the Farm to Your Table: Where Does Our Food Come From?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover where the food they eat comes from. Using maps, they identify the agricultural areas of the United States and the products that are grown in each area. Using the internet, they research how food gets to America from...
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Food Preservation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the variety of food preservation methods available today. In groups, they participate in an experiment to determine the conditions that encourage or stop the growth of bacteria. To end the lessons, they discuss the...
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What Foods Melt?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, learners experiment to determine which foods melt using hot water in metal pans. They write predictions about which foods will melt and which will melt the fastest. They perform the experiment and note the what...
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Food Chains

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate how food chains work. In this food chains lesson, students construct a food web for a pear tree habitat. The interactive whiteboard is an optional tool in this lesson.
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Foods and Languages of the World

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students explore Japan. In this Japanese culture activity, students listen to stories regarding Japan, view Japanese art, learn Japanese words, and make Origami.
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Food Label Realities

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify nutritional information on food labels. In this nutrition lesson, 2nd graders bring in food labels from home and practice reading them. Students discuss the nutritional content, such as caloric content. Students...
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Identifying Food Nutrients

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers pretend they are a food-quality tester. They develop a kit to test food for sugars, starches, proteins and lipids. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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Life Skills - Advertising Tricks - Learning About Food Advertisements

For Students 5th - 8th
For this advertising worksheet, students learn about food advertisements, including jingles, images, products, animation and more. They then complete the 3 activities in which they create their own product, spokes-character and jingle.
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Ecosystem Food Web Mural

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create a food web mural about an ecosystem of the freshwater marsh. For this food web lesson plan, students write about the organisms and how each one depends on another.
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Food Descriptions

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this health worksheet, students look for the right descriptions to describe the food items in the pictures and answer the questions for each one.

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