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Coffee & Chocolate: Knowing Healthy Foods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
An article relaying vital information about health and nutrition are the backbone of this lesson on eating the right foods. A series of activities are used to help upper graders understand the science supporting our understanding of what...
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What's That Food?

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Get things cooking with the first lesson in this series on the science of food. Working in small groups, young scientists make and record observations about different mystery foods. These descriptions are then shared with the class and...
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Healthy Snacks

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Assess your pupils' ability to identify healthy food choices in the final lesson of this series on food science. Given five different food labels, young nutritionists will rank them from most to least healthy, supporting their choices...
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Having Fun with Healthy Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students complete worksheets about healthy foods. In this health lesson, students do peanut worksheets including a maze and labeling page. They find all the pictures that start with the letter p. 
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My Healthy Food Friends

For Students K - 1st
In this healthy food friends worksheet, students identify the names and color pictures of vegetable "people" and write the name of their favorite veggie friend. Students color five vegetables and write one favorite.
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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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There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly

For Teachers K
Students complete activities with the book There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly.  For this literature lesson, students hear the story and recognize the animals. They create fly soup and discuss healthy foods and junk...
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Pickles

For Teachers K - 1st
Young learners compare healthy foods to junk foods. They examine the growing process of a vegetable from a seed all the way to maturity. The book, The Magic School Bus in a Pickle is used. Some nice cross-curricular activities in math,...
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Food Pyramid Relay Race

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners explore healthy eating habits by conducting a physical food challenge. In this food pyramid lesson plan, students identify the main concepts behind the food pyramid and what choices they should be making with their food intake....
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Reading Comprehension: Obesity and Food Deserts

For Students 8th - 10th
Read this selection about "food deserts," places where high poverty rates limit access to healthy foods with your class. Six multiple choice questions on comprehension, inferences, vocabulary, and citing the text follow the selection and...
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Healthy Foods

For Students K - 2nd
In this healthy foods coloring learning exercise, learners color all of the foods that are healthy. They put an X on the foods that are not healthy. Finally, students circle their favorite fruit. There are 12 pieces of food on the page...
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Junk Food Jungle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students become familiar with the nutritional value of foods advertised on television and in magazines. They discuss different types of foods and where snack food fits into a healthy diet. They categorize the foods they eat as healthy or...
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Fast Food and Daily Nutrition Choices

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore food. In this nutrition lesson, students investigate multiple facets of healthy eating and how the fast food industry impacts our society. They will participate in class discussions, read from their text-book, and watch...
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Food Poetry

For Students 4th - 6th
In this eating healthy instructional activity, students brainstorm words related to healthy foods and then write a poem that will encourage others to eat healthy foods on the lines provided.
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Healthy Eating

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore how they can make healthy food choices and assess how "eating healthy" requires knowledge and planning ahead. They review and discuss The Edible Pyramid as well before they complete this project online. Each student maps...
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Food Chains and Food Webs

For Students 5th - 6th
As part of a study of food chains and food webs, class members complete a series of worksheets that trace a marine chain from producers to consumers or decomposers. After studying a food chain example, young marine biologists make up...
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The Five Food Groups

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this five food groups worksheet, students look over a chart containing the five food groups and the seven days of week and color the group they eat each day.
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The ABCs of Healthy Foods

For Teachers 1st
First graders, after reviewing the food pyramid, look for fat, sugar, and salt in food.
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HEALTHY EATING

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students devise their own scheme for encouraging healthy eating and discuss health eating. They prepare a talk for younger students from the government to promote healthy eating.
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Food Labels in the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students study the nutritional information on food labels and become familiar with the basic dietary needs of the human body. They write letters to food companies.
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Teaching Kids About Healthy Foods: Snacks Alternatives

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners inspect human health by participating in a class game. In this nutrition lesson, students examine an interactive food pyramid and discuss the healthy alternatives to their typical diets. Learners complete a flash card activity...
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Organize Your Favorites (Food)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this healthy foods worksheet, pupils organize the names nutrient-rich foods into categories. Students also read passages about nutrition and respond to three short-answer questions.
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Food Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this word search worksheet, students find and mark 22 healthy foods in the puzzle. There is a word bank for this medium difficulty worksheet.
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Making Choices

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
When choosing what foods to eat, there are a lot of factors to consider. To help make the decision a little easier, young learners work in small groups developing short plays, stories, or advertisements that address the different issues...

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