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Nutrition an Food: Taking Control of What You Eat

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine what they eat and how they can improve their health by changing what they eat. They research nutrition and different foods. They also examine new vocabulary words.
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Curated OER

Nutrition: It's In Your Hands

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use this lesson to focus on their health, nutrition and the state of the environment. In groups, they examine the various types of land, water and air pollutants and compare and contrast a food chain with and without a...
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Curated OER

NUTRITION STATION CIRCUIT

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners learn various fitness concepts along with various basketball skills. Ten stations incorporate nutrition and basketball skills while
Interactive
Curated OER

BMI For Kids - Body Mass Index

For Students K - 5th
Promote healthy lifestyles with an interactive that provides young learners with healthy nutrition and exercise messages. Class members plug their height and weight information into an online body mass index calculator, and hear positive...
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Curated OER

Fit For Life: Eat Smart and Exercise

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the problem of obesity among teenagers. They view a video and discuss what could be done to avoid becoming overweight. They also explore the importance of exercise.
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Keeping Healthy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers describe the relationship between exercise and health. They name ways to monitor their health and the equipment used to do so. Students name solutions to common health issues and explain why good nutrition and exercise are...
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Curated OER

Healthy Snacks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach little learners the difference between a healthy snack and an unhealthy one. After a class discussion about what constitutes a healthy vs. an unhealthy snack, pupils cut out pictures from magazines and sort them into categories...
Unit Plan
US Department of Agriculture

Serving Up My Plate

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Within three nutrition-themed, inquiry-based learning opportunities, pupils take notice of their eating habits; delve deep into the five food groups, gain experience in planning meals, participate in a taste test, and explore ads...
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Champions for Change

How Many Cups Do I Need?

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? Find out by browsing through a variety of handouts and learning the recommended daily amounts of fruits and vegetables for good health. Learners will read and discuss how to visually...
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Media Smarts

Packaging Tricks

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
As part of their study of how advertisers use various techniques to influence consumers, kids examine the design, the promotions, and the product placement in the packaging of their favorite foods. 
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Baylor College

Body Mass Index (BMI)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How do you calculate your Body Mass Index, and why is this information a valuable indicator of health? Class members discover not only what BMI is and practice calculating it using the height and weight of six fictitious individuals, but...
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US National Library of Medicine

Science and Society: Preventing the Spread of Disease

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Looking for a valuable resource on the spread of infectious diseases? Here is a lesson plan in which pupils simulate the spread of diseases and learn about how to prevent them from spreading. Class members read case studies about...
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Morning Fitness Tips

For Teachers K - 6th
Share Morning Fitness Tips with your class, or your whole school! You will have to put time and effort into preparing your costumes and in getting together what fitness information, you want to share, but the program is a great addition...
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ProCon

Milk

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Milk: It does a body good ... or does it? Using the provided website, scholars sort through information to answer the question. They review a chart demonstrating lactose intolerance by ethnicity and region, and they also compare the...
Unit Plan
Southern Kennebec Child Development Corporation

Sun Blocks: Building a Foundation for Healthy Skin

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Here comes the sun! Primary graders engage in activities that teach them how to protect themselves from the effects of UV rays. They learn that each season (fall, winter, spring, and summer) offers its own special challenges so they...
Worksheet
Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Scramble

For Students 2nd - 4th
Discover a variety of ways to eat and cook whole grains with a word scramble and secret code worksheet. Class members uncover seven whole grain options before using a number system to decode a secret message. 
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Media Smarts

Looking at Food Advertising

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Tony The Tiger, The HoneyComb Kid, The Nestle Quick Bunny. As part of a study of the methods advertisers use to sell foods and how this advertising effects their food choices, kids create their own spokescharacter and/or jingle for...
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Southern Nevada Health District

What Am I ?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Have fun learning about fruits and vegetables with a game of pictionary! One team draws a fruit or vegetable on the board, while the other team collaborates to guess what it is. After the game, class members discuss where foods are grown...
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Math Solutions

Cooking Up Chicken

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Although designed for career education classes by the Chicken Farmers of Saskatchewan, the information contained in this 46-page booklet is appropriate for cooking classes and individual chicken consumers. Everything you wanted to...
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Cooking Matters

Make Your Plate a Rainbow

For Students K - 8th
Different colored foods provide various benefits to different parts of the body. For example, purple fruits and vegetables can boost your memory. The worksheet incorporates the concept of healthy eating into drawing,...
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Thomson Delmar Learning

Cooking Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Get cooking with some preschool and kindergarten-based cooking lesson plans. As young cooks follow the directions on the recipes, they practice hand-eye coordination, measurement, counting, and nutritional eating.
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What's on My Plate?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Kids work together in groups to discuss and understand the differences between a typical diet and a healthy one. They use the My Plate recommendations to compare what they eat with what they should be eating according to the MyPlate...
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The Business of Agriculture

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore the importance of agribusiness in the US economy. They play one game where they sort and discuss the importance of agricultural commodities. They also play the game Pit to better understand how agricultural products are...
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Food and Nutrition

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in an after school program that promotes decision making, cooperation, choosing healthy foods, recognizing and naming a variety of foods, state healthy benefits from eating healthy foods and involving oneself in...

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