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Substance Abuse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify and define the symptoms of differently forms or substance and self abuse. They formulate opinions as to why people engage in these types of behaviors. Students create an action plan to help an individual who may...
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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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Stream Quality Assessment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate many of the factors that affect water quality. They take measurements and water samples at a local stream and evaluate the health of their community's watershed. They write a report detailing their findings.
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Where Does Our Food Come From?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the state or country that a food product came from and locate it on a map. They identify products that are grown in Hawaii and the factors important in the location of economic activities.
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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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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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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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Balanced Meal Planner

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use an online website to select foods and put them onto a plate to see if they have made healthy and balanced meals. For this healthy meals lesson plan, students review the food pyramid before this activity.
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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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Food Guide Pyramid Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students draw sets of snacks that they feel are healthy and unhealthy. They can color their drawings.
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Daily Food Diary of an Elderly Person

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health learning exercise, 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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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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Jr. Chef Club

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the food pyramid. In this health/math lesson students make biscuits. Students are assigned a group to measure out ingredients. Students also discuss which part of the food pyramid biscuits fall into and the nutritional...
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Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this well-designed nutritional activity, students are given the opportunity to create their own daily food record, compare their nutrient with minimimun requirements, and think critically about their own food choices. Materials and...
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Nutrients

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders understand the important nutrients in food and the value of each. In this nutrients activity, 4th graders complete a chart giving examples of foods that contain that nutrient and a definition of the nutrient. Students...
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The "Heart" of the Problem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners create an exercise and nutrition program. In this interdisciplinary instructional activity, students use calculations of exercises plus their corresponding effects on the body and nutritional values of food to derive a health...

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