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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students list good food choices for a healthy body. They make a menu for a fictitious restaurant that contains good food choices from each of the areas of the Food Pyramid. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 7th
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Students examine how to select, prepare, and consume nutritious foods, and discuss the long term health problems associated with poor dietary habits. They examine snacks in bags to compare nutrition labels, and keep food journals for a week. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students, in groups, explore how to read lables on food packages. They learn the nutritional value of food. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students act out a play based on good eating habits and plan a day's worth of healthy meals and snacks. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students plan two lunches for the Pyramid Cafe's?? lunch menu and work in pairs to make sure each is a body-building lunch. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students complete a survey as class answering the question: "Did you eat breakfast this morning?". They place a tally mark in the column that best represents their answer. They then discuss the results in the graph. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students explore a variety of breakfast foods and beverages and write a creative story about their favorite. They then present their stories to the class and are encouraged to try different foods during the story time. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students investigate the concept of a nutritional label used on bread products. They read different labels in order to strengthen reading skills and interpreting nutritional information. The information is used in order to create their own nutritional labels. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students participate in six different activities to evaluate the eating habits of themselves and their families. They identify diseases caused by improper nutrition, create a power point presentation of a nutritional requirements for different age groups, record their own dietary intake for a week and evaluate the nutritional content of a snack food. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students investigate the nutritional value and facts of the food they eat everyday. In small groups they conduct Internet research on the Food Guide Pyramid, record nutritional facts about ten of their favorite foods, and create a spreadsheet with the research information on their favorite foods. Full Review »
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