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Food Choices The Pyramid Way
Learners develop skills in making nutritionally-sound food choices. Keeping a food diary, they analyze their food intake using the food pyramid as a guide. Students identify and explain the relationship of nutrition to personal health...
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Nutritional Challenges
Eating healthy can be a challenge, especially for people with special dietary needs. After learning about standard nutritional needs for adults, learners take on the role of a dietician and work together to create a menu for one of the...
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The Five Food Groups
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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Personal Food Diary Analysis
Students keep a food diary for a day and examine the calories, and nutrient intakes. In this food diary lesson students complete several activities including a food diary analysis.
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Youth Obesity: Schools Fight Back
Explore nutrition and healthy eating habits with a study on youth obesity. Learners watch a PBS documentary on the obesity epidemic which discusses government programs aimed at healthier choices, as well as more localized efforts. Kids...
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The Five Food Groups
In this food groups worksheet, students use the colorful 7 day diary to color a star for each food group eaten each day. Students do not record how many servings from each group, just that they have eaten a food from it.
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Healthy Choices
Fifth graders discover how to make healthy choices in nutrition. For this nutrition lesson, 5th graders research the daily nutrition requirements recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Students keep a food diary for three...
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Nutrition and Body Image
Students study nutrition and how to maintain a healthy diet. In this adolescent nutrition instructional activity students complete several activities that allow them to see different nutrition scenarios.
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The Food Guide Pyramid - Daily Food Journals
Learners examine the Food Guide Pyramid, then keep daily food journals. They evaluate their current nutritional habits and create plans for developing healthier eating habits.
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Weekly Meal Sheet
In this food diary learning exercise, students record the foods they eat from each of 5 groups on a chart that has spaces for each day of the week.
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Daily Food Diary of an Elderly Person
In this health worksheet, students keep a food diary for an elderly person that could be a friend or relative. Each entry needs to be recorded accurately.
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Agriculture and Food
Students discuss the foods they eat and why they eat them. In this nutrition lesson, students determine what foods people might eat in Cyprus and create a traditional meal tasting five traditional recipes of Cyprus set up like stations.
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Fruitful Questions
Students examine a fruit-related Q & A Science Times article. They write their own food science questions and answer them in the same format as the article. For homework, they analyze their fruit consumption according to U.S....
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My Pyramid for Kids
Students become familiar with the proper amounts of different types of foods they should eat each day. In this food pyramid lesson, students complete worksheets to develop better eating habits. Students understand the importance of...
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Lesson 3: Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits
Learners explore fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition instructional activity, students generate a list of all known fruits and vegetables. Learners cut out and compile pages for a weekly fruits and vegetable journal. Students...
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Nutrition
Seventh graders extend their knowledge of calories, proteins, carbohydrate and fats. They discover their body's use of calorie intake, explore diet in relation to excercise and nutrition and determine if their diet and excercise habis...
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Diet: You Are What You Eat
Third graders examine the issue of food quality to assess the dangers of pesticides, additives, and improper food preparation. After keeping food diaries and categorizing foods, they fill in food pyramids based on their journal entries....
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Health and Nutrition
Fifth graders explore nutrition and health ideas to maintain their energy. In this energy lesson, 5th graders read information about ways to keep their energy boosted. Students keep a diary of what they each and create a chart for the...
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What's Cookin'?
Young scholars examine their eating habits. In this nutrition lesson, students will journal their eating habits over a period of three days. They will use a diet analysis web page to determine the nutritional factors of their eating habits.
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Student Worksheet Dietary Record
In this health worksheet students write down the number of calories consumed and the types of foods in an attempt to control health.
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Eating Healthy
Learners review healthy eating habits, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Simple Steps to Healthy Living
Students observe a video on eating habits, discuss their own habits, and then create their own food pyramid. In this research lesson students go to a webpage and enter their personal information then they get a food pyramid...
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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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A Big Issue
Learners examine the issue of childhood obesity. In this current events lesson, students explore the personal health issue as they discuss balanced diets, food diaries, and the 2012 London Olympics. Suggestions for classroom activities...