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Water/Hydration
Students develop an understanding of the role water has in the body and the importance of getting enough water each day. Through the lesson, students recognize the risks and signs of dehydration. Also, they identify foods with high...
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Fat Fast Foods
Students explore the fast food industry. In this fast food lesson, students research fast food restaurants and the food served. Students create a tri-fold handout to explain the history of fast food and types of food served. Students...
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Personal Food Diary Analysis
Students keep a food diary for a day and examine the calories, and nutrient intakes. In this food diary lesson plan students complete several activities including a food diary analysis.
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My New Food
Students create new fruits and vegetables and describe their health benefits. In this nutrition lesson, students work as a class to produce a new fruit or vegetable, make it using modeling clay, and describe the...
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups
Students review a variety of foods and classify them into food groups. They identify the benefits of each food group to our bodies and consider how deficiencies of these groups affect humans. They sort pictures, view a video and write...
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Making Healthy Food Choices
Students examine importance of making healthy food choices, discuss connection between what we eat and healthy body and heart, discriminate between healthy food or "heart-smart choices," and "junk food," and plan healthy meal or snack.
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Fat, Sugar, and Salt
Learners examine how fat, sugar and salt is manufactured and placed in prepared foods. In this food additives lesson students complete a lab activity and fill out a worksheet.
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Sugar for Breakfast
Students calculate the calories and carbohydrates in breakfast cereals. They learn the nutritional value of sugar-filled cereals. They can also figure out the nutritional value of other breakfast items, such as toast, orange juice, etc ....
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Healthy Living: How Does this Web Site Impact Medicare?
Students assess information on the Health Canada Web site and determine whether such information should be paid for with tax dollars, and whether the publication of such information has an impact on Medicare.
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Quench That Thirst
Students examine the sugar and calorie content of different beverages. In this adult health lesson, students analyze how advertising can be very misleading. They determine the correct amount of juice or beverage they should take per day.
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Super-sized! Is it really a deal?
Students discuss the pros and cons of eating in fast food places. In this adult health instructional activity, student examine the fat and calorie content of fast food meals. They share ways to make healthy food choices.
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What's Cooking? It Starts with a Plan and a List
Students create a meal plan for their family. In this adult health science activity, students discuss the benefits of using a shopping list. They explain how these methods can help them save time and make healthy meals.
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Water, Water Everywhere
Students explain the important role of water in the body. In this adult health lesson plan, students examine foods with high water content. They share ways to get the recommended amount of water per day.
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Food Rainbow
Learners taste the colors of the rainbow. In this nutrition lesson, students match fruits to rainbow colors, prepare rainbow salad, and taste rainbow salad.
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Meal Plan for an Older Person with Diabetes
Students plan a healthy meal for elderly diabetics. In this nutrition lesson, students practice planning a healthy meal by creating a meal plan for an elderly diabetic patient. They learn the importance of controlling diabetes through diet.
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Fatty Food
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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Kumara Math
Students explore nutrition by completing math problems in class. In this food conversions instructional activity, students identify what the kumara plant is and how it can contribute to human health by regularly consuming an appropriate...
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5 A Day
Students explore written music. In this cross-curriculum health and music lesson, students sing a "5 a Day" song about fruits and vegetables. Students clap a steady rhythm and identify written quarter notes in a 4/4 time...
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Preparing Fruits and Vegetables
Students discuss ways to properly clean fruit and vegetables. In this adult health lesson, students explain the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables. They suggest ways to store food for future use.
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I Think I Forgot Something!
Students examine human health by reading a children's book in class. In this breakfast lesson, students identify the importance of starting the day with a good, nutritious meal. Students read the book I Think I Forgot Something and...
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Our Choices Matter: What You Eat
Students will record their food choices for one week, noting calories, protein and vitamin content of foods using a given USDA website. Students will discuss whole class the important of proper nutrition and its role, and what happens...
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Grouping Fruits and Vegetable
Students identify the differences between fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition activity, students identify the properties of fruits and vegetables and group various fruits and vegetables into categories.
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It's Fun to Eat Fruits and Vegetables
Students identify the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition lesson, students view a picture of the food pyramid and identify where to find fruits and vegetables. Students listen to a music piece about fruits and...
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Money for Food
Students identify low cost, nutritious foods from each of the food groups. In this low cost nutrition lesson, students use the handout "Saving Money on Foods from MyPyramid" and work in groups to study grocery store ads to find foods in...
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