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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students focus on the foods they encounter in their everyday lives and how these foods relate to the food pyramid. They recognize food vocabulary in the target language and write a school menu making healthy choices from the pyramid. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students identify food safety practices and storage methods. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students complete a unit of lessons on ecology, habitats, and food chains. They conduct research, analyze data and record the information in a science journal, discuss key vocabulary, and design and create a shoebox habitat project. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students analyze the USDA Food Pyramid to investigate the food groups, the proper number of daily servings from each group and how to choose a healthy diet. The data obtained is compared to the Northeast Regional Food Guide. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the different food groups on the food pyramid. In groups, they discover the proper amount to eat from each food group and how to prepare healthy meals. They keep a food journal and calculate the amount of calories they take in taking into account the amount of physical activity they receive in a day. To end the lesson, they discuss whether being a vegetarian is healther than not. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students discover where the food they eat comes from. Using maps, they identify the agricultural areas of the United States and the products that are grown in each area. Using the internet, they research how food gets to America from other countries. To end the lesson, they analyze how food additives and pollution affect the food supply. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the guidelines the United States Department of Agriculture places on food. In groups, they create a list of the foods they consume and discuss the political and environmental implications of purchasing the food. They use the internet to research the food situation around the world and how food is stored and transported. To end the lesson, they discover how to be better food consumers to help protect areas of the world facing malnutrition and political unrest. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students are introduced to the concept of food safety. In groups, they distinguish between fact and opinion and cause and effect while participating in a board game. They write an essay about what knowledge they gained and review the major concepts of food safety as a class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students identify safe practices that must be followed to assure the food chain from the farm or ranch to dinner table is providing safe and quality food for the consumer. Students visit websites to examine numbers of food borne illnesses in their area, take a trip to the cafeteria to discuss safe practices and conduct a lab experiment to find bacteria in the classroom. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students gain knowledge of the complexity of the food system. They are taught how the system affects food safety, and identify a student's responsibilities when buying, handling, cooking and eating foods. The class utilizes newspapers as teaching and learning tools that encourages students to become creative thinkers and readers of newspapers. Full Review »
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