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Fun Food Faces

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create tasty faces. In this food lesson, students use rice cakes to make a funny face. Students follow directions and use creativity for this activity. Students make a list of things they need from the grocery store to make more...
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2nd Grade - Act. 17: Source Relay

For Teachers 2nd
Help your 2nd graders understand the difference between natural and man-made materials. They will sort breakfast food items into sources: store, factory, natural world, and farm. They will work together to classify, form conclusions, and...
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Basic Food Items

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson plan, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Students read a list of...
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Interactive
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English Exercises: Fast Food Goes Organic

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary and listening skills online learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle with the names of fast foods that are shown in clip art pictures. They watch a YouTube video about a fast food restaurant becoming...
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"Cereal" Comic Strip

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars discuss how wheat is important to our everyday lives, from food to insulation, focusing on how wheat grains are processed into food items. Students then create a comic strip of the steps of processing grain to demonstrate...
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Sondage: J'ai horreur des broccolis! A Survey of Food Preferences: I Hate Broccoli!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in contrived conversation in French to determine preferences for known food items.
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Food Labels

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study nutrition and the facts about food labels.  In this investigative lesson plan students examine food labels and the health facts and serving sizes.
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Astronaut's Favorite Foods

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine space food. For this space science lesson, students visit suggested websites to identify the eight categories of space food. Students use a space food nutrition guide to classify space food.
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Cooking Matters

Happy Whole-idays

For Students K - 8th
Take a look into how whole grains support growth, provide energy to play, and help us to stay strong with a fun-filled resource. The worksheet offers interesting food facts, an exercise in nutrition label reading, a recipe for chunky...
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Unit Plan
Special Olympics

Train at School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Keep your mind and body fit with a fun activity about the five food groups. After going over the functions of fruit, vegetables, grains, meats and beans, and dairy, as well as oils and fats, learners participate in a bean bag toss to...
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Worksheet
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Food

For Students 7th - 9th
Review food related vocabulary with your Spanish speakers. Learners must translate the 32 Spanish sentences and identify their correct translation in the four options provided. 
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Learning Games Lab

Eat-And-Move-O-Matic

For Students 6th - 12th
Slot-machine-style scrolling columns display Eat choices (a food item, snack, or a full meal) and Move choices (various popular physical activities). Make a food selection and find out how much time you will need to spend participating...
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Lesson Plan
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Energy Plus!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
"Energy Plus!" from Together Counts is three days worth of lessons, discussions, and activities about nutrition. The materials help you teach youngsters about eating healthy and burning calories. Energy in and energy out. Included are...
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Tracing the History Of Food

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore cultural variations in food preparation. They pick a country and research dishes of cultural significance. They prepare their food and present the dish to the class creatively.
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California Academy of Science

Exploring the Impacts of Feeding the World

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Approximately 50 percent of people in the world who are chronically hungry work in agriculture. While it seems counter-intuitive, the farther you live from a farm, the more food options are available. Scholars explore concepts related to...
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Peace Corps

What's Mongolia Really Like?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Understanding different cultural experiences is a challenging and worthwhile objective throughout grade and content levels. This lesson facilitates an appreciation of rural Mongolian life through a simulation of being a nomadic teen as...
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Food Choices: A Socio-Cultural Decision

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss their food preferences. Using a flannel board and food models students describe what they would like to eat for dinner. Students compare their selections with their classmates. Students identify the nationality of ethnic...
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Worksheet
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What Parts of a Plant Do We Eat?

For Students 8th - 12th
Did you know that tomtoes and cucumbers are actually fruits? Biology or botany beginners read about the function of flowers and fruit and find that some food items commonly called vegetables are, by definition, also fruits! Give learners...
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ESL Activity-Food

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this ESL food worksheet, students answer questions about a picture of a table set with food items, complete a conversation, answer yes/no questions and complete a 'food' matching activity.
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Worksheet
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Do You Like Fish?

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL expressions of liking and disliking worksheet, students work in pairs to converse about food. Students ask each other if they like each of 15 food items. Students answer: No, it's horrible/ Not very much/ It's OK/ Yes, it's...
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Worksheet
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Food Glorious Food

For Students K - 1st
In this Thanksgiving feast worksheet, students look over eight different types of foods and circles each food item that would not be found at the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving table.
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Lesson Plan
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The Foods we Eat (Los Alimentos)

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders sing a song and create flashcards showing their favorite foods.  In this Spanish "What do you like? lesson plan, 6th graders display Spanish foods using a document camera and graph their favorites.
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Green Food Graph

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore graph making by investigating St. Patrick's day food. In this holiday food lesson plan, students discuss their favorite green foods in honor of St. Patrick's day. Students create a graph based on the data of which green...
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What's in the Refrigerator?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this food worksheet, students color an empty refrigerator, and cut out various food items. Students decide which foods they would like to paste in the refrigerator. They then answer 5 questions about these foods.