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Shopping Detective

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this consumer math activity, students analyze the prices on 4 food items in a store. Students solve 7 word problems with the information.
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Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
Student analyze pictures of food items to determine which of the six food pyramid groups they belong to. They tape the pictures onto a poster of the food pyramid. Upon completing the food pyramid, they draw balance meals on paper plates...
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Spring Harvest

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a activity that is interested in the foods related to the season of Spring. They conduct research using a variety of resources while creating menus to match the regions of The United States. Students create food items...
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Fair Shares

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars investigate division by sharing food items with their classmates.  In this division lesson, students are given a food item which they must equally share among the class using division.  Young scholars predict how...
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FACS: Running a School Bakery (Mktg)

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners explore marketing concepts while producing food items to sell. They are divide into groups. Students create or revise the Research Survey to use during the week to either determine the product they they sell or which variety...
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Cooking Up an Explanation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students pose scientific questions about food items and research their explanations. They then create recipe cards with the answers and present their findings in a cooking show format.
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When My Name Was Keoko

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners construct a book banquet to help us to recall and enjoy food eaten in Korea during the 1940's. The class is to read When My Name Was Keoko and then create a book banquet that the students invite their parents to. Learners cook...
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Recipe Formats - Level II

For Teachers All
A recipe, no matter its format, gives ingredients and instructions for a specific food so that the food item tastes the same every time. See Preface Materials:
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Nutrition and Health and School Gardening

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine how healthy eating contributes to a healthy body and life style. They read nutritional labels on food items. They use the Five Foods Pyramid to evaluate their own eating habits. They plan, design, and create a school...
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Trophic Ecology of Humans

For Teachers 9th - 11th
students analyze the place of humans among the tropic levels by observing what we eat. They calculate the caloric content of several foods commonly eaten by humans and calculate the total energy cost to grow, process, transport, store...
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Super K Buffet: Lesson for Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students determine healthy food choices. In this healthy food choice lesson, students study food vocabulary and complete a worksheet about making good choices. They put together a dinner plate that shows a complete meal using a foam...
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The Pyramid of Power

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the food pyramid, nutrition, and how to plan a balanced diet. This fun lesson is well-planned and a great introduction to the food pyramid!
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What's on Your Plate?

For Teachers 1st
First graders, after studying the food guide pyramid, create mock dinner plates. They include on these plates magazine cutouts of foods from each of the groups in the food guide pyramid.
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ESOL: Health and Nutrition

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the four food groups and how they contribute to one's health. They identify the four food groups and create a poster of the four food groups with pictures. They present their posters to the class and practice answering...
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Healthy Choice Shopping Frenzy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn the categories of the food pyramid. In this food groups lesson, students learn to categorize food. Through this activity students scoot to different food groups learning about the foods that belong in each group.
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The Secret Life of a French Fry

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore where the food they eat comes from. In this food activity, students look at agriculture and food production. They follow the production of a french fry and discuss all the steps it goes through before being served. 
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Three Reasons

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify healthy foods in each group of the food pyramid. In this nutrition lesson, 3rd graders take notes on the food pyramid by visiting the website, www.mypyramid.gov. Students design a healthy menu for an imaginary bistro.
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Bell Curve

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore averages by completing a data analysis activity. In this bell curve lesson, students measure different food items and plot their measurements on a X and Y axis. Students create bell curves around the average weight or...
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Nutrition

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students design a meal plan with healthy foods based on the food guide pyramid. In this nutrition lesson plan, students identify healthy and unhealthy choices, watch a PowerPoint, and complete a group activity based on the food pyramid.
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Our Five Senses Affect Food Choices

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read My Five Senses: A Lion's Tale. In this five senses instructional activity, students understand the relationship between their five senses and how they affect their food choices. Students write journal entries about their...
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Money--Shopping

For Students 5th - 6th
In this money and shopping worksheet, students review and discuss the answers to thirty two questions involving flash cards, calculating the cost of more than one item and the change from transactions.
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Bunny Dreams

For Students K - 1st
In this different types of foods worksheet, students view a bunny dreaming of fourteen different types of food. Students cover the food items with a small piece of paper that are not good for a bunny to eat.
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What's for Lunch?

For Students K - 2nd
In this foods for lunch worksheet, students look over nine different types of foods and then circles each food item that would be a good choice for a healthy school lunch.
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Class Survey 1--Food and Drink

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ESL class survey learning exercise, students complete a survey of their classmates to discover items that they eat and drink.

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