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Hastings Prince Edward Public Health

My Life—My Health

For Students 6th - 8th
Teenagers are not too young to incorporate healthy habits into their lives! A detailed lesson plan helps them set goals for nutritional meals, quality sleep, and scheduled physical activity.
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Baylor College

Do Plants Need Light?

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Turn your classroom into a greenhouse with a instructional activity on plant growth. First, investigate the different parts of seeds, identifying the seed coat, cotyledon, and embryo. Then plant the seeds and watch them grow!...
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Baylor College

They're Everywhere: Bacteria

For Teachers K - 5th
Totally gross out your class with the eighth lesson in this series on food science. Explore the microscopic world of bacteria by taking swabs of different classroom objects and growing colonies in petri dishes. An engaging activity that...
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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Blanks

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Create a silly cooking themed story using nouns, adjectives, verbs, and more! Pupils fill in the blanks using their knowledge of different types of fruit, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy, then read the story aloud to hear a...
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Vegetarianism

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What do Mike Tyson, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paul McCartney have in common? They're all famous vegetarians. Using the resource, scholars learn about the pros and cons of eating a vegetarian diet. They read a fascinating history of...
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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Search

For Students 2nd - 4th
Encourage healthy eating, cooking, and goal setting with a word search that showcases a variety of fruits and vegetables, and provides a four-step plan to eat more of them. 
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Exercise and Nutrition

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students maximize their exercise output by making healthy decisions concerning food. In this exercise and nutrition lesson, students identify types of food needed to give the body the highest energy output.
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What's My Nutrition Value?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in groups, explore how to read labels on food packages. They learn the nutritional value of food.
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Meet the Royal Food Family

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use mini-books, posters, songs, trading cards and sorting activities to explore the five food groups needed for health: vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and meat. They discuss why good nutrition is important.
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Resources and Recipes for Independent Living

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discover how to prepare low-cost, nutritional meals. In this personal health instructional activity, students analyze nutritional standards, plan a nutritional meal, budget for the meal, and share their findings with their...
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Nutrition

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students design a meal plan with healthy foods based on the food guide pyramid. For 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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Label It Nutrition

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students rank foods for particular nutrients, and check to see if they are correct using the Nutrition Label.
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Nutritional Needs

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners determine caloric needs for an active person and what role nutrition plays in one's energy,  In this nutritional needs lesson, students discuss the definition of calorie and identify high calorie foods.  Learners work...
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Fat Fast Foods

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore the fast food industry. In this fast food instructional activity, 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...
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Fantasy Food Groups Fun Land

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create their own Fantasy Food Group Fun Lands.
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The Food Pyramid and it's importance

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders demonstrate an understanding of the food groups by categorizing foods in the proper area. Given the six food groups in the food pyramid each student is given twenty pictures of foods and asked to place them under the...
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Good Foods to Have on Hand

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students consider the type of foods that should stock a pantry. In this nutrition activity, students complete worksheet activities regarding stocking the pantry and preparing one-dish meals.
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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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No Impact Project: Food

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Pupils explore their food choices and the impact of them to the environment as well as their quality of life. In this food choices lesson, students use the film and book from the project No Impact Man to explore the impact of food...
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Box-and-Whisker Plots

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore nutritional information for several fast food hamburgers using statistical applications. In this statistics lesson, students analyze calories, fat, and sodium content of various fast food restaurants. Students also...
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Nutrition Unit

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete activities for the six basic food groups. In this food groups lesson, 1st graders view examples of food samples from the various groups and sample the foods. Students discuss the food pyramid and draw a fruit or...
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd
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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Nutrition Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 1st
First graders comprehend the importance of making healthy food choices for a healthy heart. They discuss the connection between what they eat and a healthy body and heart. Students discriminate between healthy foods, or "heart-smart...
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Nutrients for Plants and People: Gardening for Good Health

For Students 4th - 6th
In this food pyramid worksheet, students read about each food group in the food pyramid, and then write examples for each one. Students write 6 groups and 6 examples.

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