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Healthy Foods

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students illustrate their favorite food and add it to a food pyramid graph, after listening to Russell Hoban's story, Bread and Jam for Frances.
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Family Life Cycle - Children's Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review how their nutritional needs change over time. In groups, they design their own menu in which they get all the nutrients they need. To end the lesson, they share their foods with the class and complete a wordsearch...
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Why Walk?

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the book Yummers. They use the food pyramid to evaluate what Emily Pig ate during her walk and find out why her walk made her sick. They participate in a walking game.
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The Five a Day Adventure Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, after examining a food pyramid, demonstrate their knowledge and use of their classroom computers by researching the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables. They also compare/contrast serving sizes and nutrients in...
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Animal clues

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use general knowledge to make educated guesses about the habitat and survival strategies of animals from Australia, Antarctica and Africa. They research to confirm and check ideas and group animals in a variety of ways.
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Ecological Communities:The Prairie

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils study the meaning of ecological community and recognize its complexity.  In this ecology lesson plan students diagram a food web.
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Adaptations

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify features of animals that enable survival in particular environments and group animals on the basis of their similarities. They compare and contrast features of groups of animals.
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Healthy Teeth: Hands-On Science Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work in small groups to perform hands-on science activities that demonstrate the effect of certain foods on our teeth. They perform three different experiment with different foods in order to see the results.
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Reading Food Labels

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students investigate the concept of phonemic awareness in order to help increase reading comprehension. The reading of food labels creates the context for the practice session. They pay particular attention to certain sounds that must be...
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Jelly Critters

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students compare and contrast three different organisms that are considered gelatinous zooplankton. They describe how they fit into marine food webs.
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Mission Meals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a investigation of the types of meals that astronauts eat in space while examining the types of nutritional elements needed for optimum physical tasks in space. They are given different foods and then document the...
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Banquet For the Bunch!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students become familiar with the food guide pyramid, demonstrate a proper use of scissors and handling of glue materials, and explore the importance of eating healthy foods.
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Social Studies: Cameroon

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover the history of Cameroon and compile a list of foreign foods found in their local grocery. After taking notes on a lecture, they brainstorm a list of foods they might find on a trip to the country and compare it to what...
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Who Eats Whom in a Bermudian Coral Reef?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will be able to find out about feeding relationships on a coral reef. They then will be able to develop a food chain and food web using coral reef animals and plants using the Coral Website.
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Who Ate it First?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars complete the Seeds of Change worksheet by conducting research on the Seeds of Change website. They list foods native to the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and compile a list of recipes for a meal common after the era of...
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Chuukese Dinner (high School)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read journal entries about having dinner with a Chuukese family. Using this information, they identify which foods sound appealing and compare and contrast Micronesian and American foods, fruits and vegetables. In groups, they...
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Six Levels of Ecological Organization

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders describe the six levels of ecological organizations and give examples of each. They also differentiate between food chains and webs and identify trophic and consumer levels in food chain and food webs.
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study nutrition and the food guide pyramid. They follow established procedures for use of programs :print in color only when directed, print only the number of copies directed by the teacher, select and use the programs...
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Populations

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students calculate the area of grasslands needed to support a small pride of lions. They also identify food web links in an ecosystem and trace the energy pathways in an ecosystem.
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There Are Algae in Your House!

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils complete a worksheet at home stating what types of food they have at home with algae in it. They, in groups, compare with each other what they have on their worksheet.
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The Macaroni Lab

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Pupils are given an introduction to the "ecosystem", what factors make up an ecosystem (biotic factors, abiotic factors, food chain, producers, consumers and decomposers) and how those factors interact.
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Dietary Guidelines Multimedia Presentation

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students create a powerpoint presentation highlighting the USDA Dietary Guidelines. They are create a ten slide presentation demonstrating their knowledge of the food pyramid. Students are provided with printable materials to aid in...
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Introduction to Nutrition

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders plan nutritional meals by using the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid and analyze food labels to aid in this planning. Using a slice of Wonderbread they discover what a calorie means, and that being active means burning up more...
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Iron In! Anemia Out!

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students list the foods they have eaten in the last 3 days. In this adult health lesson, students identify iron rich foods. They plan ways to incorporate these foods in their family meals.

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