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Try A Pizza Theme Week

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore all the things they could do with a pizza. They become aware of food groups and nutritional needs, make decorated cardboard pizzas, interact with pizza slices and fractions, create stories to go along with their...
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Where's the Beef - Beef Facts or Hype, Is it Bad for You?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Analyze a Happy Meal™ for nutrient content and calories. Blend the contents into "McMush" and use Biuret's solution to test for protein content. There are a few problems with the lesson plan: the resource links are no longer...
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Analyzing Discrete and Continuous Data in a Spreadsheet

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
You are what you eat! Your statisticians keep a log of what they eat from anywhere between a day to more than a week, keeping track of a variety of nutritional information using a spreadsheet. After analyzing their own data, individuals...
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Good Food Explorers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students use different food items in order to practice the mathematical concept of shape recognition. At the same time the teacher explains how crops are a source of physical health. They use all five senses to describe each food item...
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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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Heart Alert

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore some of the causes and preventions of heart disease. Young learners play a game of tag in which the taggers role play as risk factors for heart disease. Players who are tagged call out "heart alert" and are saved when someone...
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Food Pyramid Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this food pyramid instructional activity, students fill in their choices in each of the food categories and estimate amounts eaten, then write their goals for food and activity for "tomorrow."
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Home Living / Daily Living : Foods with Vitamins and Minerals

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Bridge the gap between health and food for your special needs class. Through discussion and handouts, they will be introduced to the basics regarding the vitamins and minerals we get from eating healthy foods. They work to identify...
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What's the Shape of Your Diet?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover a healthy diet. In this healthy diet lesson, 4th graders compare their typical diet with the recommendations of MyPyramid for Kids.
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That Was Then, This Is Now

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the world power of the United States. In this Social Studies lesson, 5th graders choose a world issue and identify ways the United States could help to solve the situation. Students determine the consequences and...
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Sometimes and All the Time Foods

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize a wide variety of fruit and have a greater understanding about the importance of fruit in their diet, and determine that some fruits' skins are edible and others are not.
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Household Pests

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in an experiment to show how germs are spread, by food, fingers and feces. They conduct a bacteria count using a colony counter.
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Interactive Food Pyramid

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in the game, "Talking Food Pyramid." In this nutrition instructional activity, students recognize the organization of foods in to five groups. Students conclude by physically classifying a selection of foods in two...
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Daily Food Diary of an Elderly Person

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health activity, 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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Healthy Eating Improves Learning

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students recognize that healthy food gives you better ability to concentrate and makes you more willing to learn.  In this healthy food lesson, students choose food from Canada's food guide to create a healthy lunch and healthy snack.
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Eating Our Way to a Healthy Body: Classifying Foods

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine the major food groups. In this classifying foods lesson plan, students discover the 5 food groups as they read books and play games. Students then sort foods into the appropriate food groups
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Smart Snacking Ideas

For Teachers Higher Ed
Educate parents on obesity prevention using these discussion points, specifically geared toward families of preschoolers. You will need to add to this, as it is mostly an outline of topics and objectives.  Concepts include healthy...
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Lunch Talks Review

For Students Higher Ed
In this health worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to health and diet. There are 19 health terms located in the word search.
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Healthy Eating

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students, in groups, create a nutritious menu, using information gathered from newspapers and Palm software. They decorate paper plates with pictures of foods to represent nutritional meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Form, Rhythm, and Melodic Motives: Fiber

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine basic song form and 4/4 meter. They sing a song about diet and nutrition while identifying examining the rhythm of the song. They discuss why fruit and fiber are important to health.
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Power Snack Letter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this nutrition worksheet, students ask their parents to provide a healthy power snack for the class once a month. Students fill out the form letter and take it home for parent approval. Suggested snacks are listed.
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No Impact Project: Food

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students 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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Microbes and Health

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate microorganisms. In this Science lesson, 6th graders examine how microorganisms can be both positive and negative. Students list diseases caused by microorganisms.
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My Pyramid

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders analyze the new Food Guide Pyramid. In this healthy diet lesson plan, 10th graders explore the the website with the new food pyramid. Students use magazines to find foods from the food groups and create their own pyramid....

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