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Food Labels: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Bring awareness to the ingredients scholars ingest daily with two lessons that look deeply into food labels. The first lesson explores the difference between processed and fresh foods while the second lesson focuses on sugar content.
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Home Living / Daily Living: Labels on Food Products

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Everybody needs to know how to make healthy choices when it comes to food. Understanding food labels is the first step. Using empty food packaging, you'll discuss what food labels are, what information can be found on them, and how to...
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Santé

For Students 9th - 10th
How is your health? Intermediate Francophones read a two-paragraph text about healthy eating and the problems associated with those who do not make healthy choices. Two exercises follow the reading passage: the first is a short...
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Home & School: Food

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
What a treat! Help learners identify some of their favorite foods with this set of 24 picture cards. The set includes images of everything from pizzas and hamburgers to grapes and carrots.
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Healthy Foods Activity

For Students K - 3rd
In this healthy foods learning exercise, learners color pictures of healthy foods and cross out those of unhealthy foods. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Simple Keys and Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
An inventive and engaging instructional activity 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...
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Vegetables Group Signs

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
If you are teaching a unit on healthy eating, planting vegetables, or the food groups you'll love this resource. There are six brightly colored, full-page images of various vegetables for you to use.
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Total English Elementary: Meet the Greens

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this how much and how many activity, students read a 2 paragraph passage about a healthy family and write questions pertaining to the 12 underlined items in the text. Students then fill in a graphic organizer with healthy food...
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Vegetable Munchers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are encouraged to eat healthy foods. Theyare able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods.Students travel in different pathways, and levels,while learning to make healthy food choices.
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Eat Smart Be Smart

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Get children's blood pumping with this primary grade lesson on the human heart. After learning about the important role this muscle plays in the human body, young scholars monitor their heart rates and discover the importance...
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The Five Food Groups - Introduction to Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the five food groups as an introduction to nutrition. In this nutrition lesson, students learn about which foods belong in each of the five food groups and they determine the need to eat a healthy diet. They keep a journal...
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Introduction to Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the five food groups. In this nutrition lesson, students track their food over the weekend, and see if they are eating healthy. Then students get an opportunity to track their eating again to see if it improves.
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Breakfast, Off to a Good Start

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discover the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast. In this adult health lesson, students compare the characteristics of breakfast eaters and nonbreakfast eaters. They examine cereals for their fiber and sugar content.
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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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Cooking with WIC Foods

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students share ideas about how they use their WIC foods. In this adult health instructional activity, students discuss benefits of eating a healthy diet. They create recipes using WIC food supplies.
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Food Pyramid Menu

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze the food pyramid. In this food pyramid lesson, students evaluate their nutritional needs. Students record their eating habits and determine if their food choices were healthy.
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Energy Balance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore energy.  For this health and nutrition lesson, students brainstorm a list of healthy foods that provide energy, and identify physical activities that burn energy.  Young scholars complete a good nutrition...
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MyPyramid for Kids

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore healthy food choices. In this science lesson, students identify food groups and discuss the amount of food they should eat from each group. Students create PyramindPal cartoons.
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Software Lesson Plan for FoodWorks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete analysis of foods consumed in three days by using FoodWorks software program, identify factors that influence food intake, examine factors that influence their own eating behaviors, evaluate their current eating habits,...
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Exploding Cheeseburgers

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students identify the components of a healthy diet. For this nutrition lesson, students discuss the parts of a cheeseburger and identify the food groups the cheeseburger is a part of. Students discuss how carbohydrates and proteins are...
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Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study a healthy diet. In this healthy diet lesson, 3rd graders investigate the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables. Students compare a healthy diet to their personal diet.
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Primary PE Lesson

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils divide into two groups facing each other; tossing the bean bags to each other. The teacher calls out names of unhealthy food and students start to throw beanbags back and forth to their partner. When pupils hear a healthy snack...
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Food for thought

For Students 5th
Cake has to be good for something, right? Different foods are used by our bodies in different ways. Learners will first read about what fats, proteins, fruits, and vegetables do for the human body. They will then put each of food shown...
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Plants are yummy!

For Students K - 1st
Is it a fruit or a vegetable? Youngsters place an F next to each fruit they see and a V next to the vegetables. Corn is tricky. It is a grass, so it's actually not a fruit or a vegetable, but a grain!

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