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Obesity: Grades 3-5
What is obesity and what are some steps that can help? Investigate obesity by having your class read and discuss articles about obesity. Students gain knowledge about body mass index, the food pyramid, being overweight and dieting. They...
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Does Your Diet Stack Up?
Students investigate the food pyramid. In this nutrition lesson, students review the food pyramid and construct a list of what they eat. Students review the nutritional value of their food list and brainstorm ways to improve their diet.
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What is a Balanced Menu?
Students create a menu following food pyramid guidelines. In this nutrition lesson, students plan a menu by finding magazine pictures from each food pyramid group. Next, students create a menu for an entire day.
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Energy Flow in the Garden
How can you tell what an owl has eaten? Study the food chain and flow of energy in an ecosystem by dissecting an owl pellet and noting the bones found inside. Additionally, the lesson plan includes a game about consumers and producers...
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Food Guide Pyramid: rice
First graders study and answer questions about the food guide pyramid and find the rice in the pyramid. In this food pyramid lesson plan, 1st graders test their families on their knowledge of the pyramid by asking the given questions.
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Smart Snacking Ideas
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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The ABC's of Breakfast
Students identify the food group of various culturally diverse breakfast foods and discuss the importance of eating a healthy, well-balanced breakfast every morning. They then try different foods that begin with the letter A, B and C and...
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The Food Pyramid
Third graders research a food pyramid website and research a healthy diet. In this food pyramid lesson, 3rd graders complete a puzzle based on the research they've completed and create a healthy main course menu.
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Tastes Great-- Is It Good for You?
Students use the food guide pyramid established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate the nutritional value of their favorite foods.
Media Smarts
Packaging Tricks
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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Key Ingredients: America by Food
Students participate in a series of activities to explore the types of food Americans eat, how food choices differ in various parts of the country, and how the availability of various foods has changed over time.
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Key Ingredients: America By Food
In this set of five lessons, students analyze the important of food traditions, identity, and history. Students analyze how food traditions contribute to family identity, investigate family food traditions through interviews, and compare...
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Food Guide Pyramid - TV and Peers
Students identify foods that belong in each group on the food guide pyramid. They discuss how TV and peers may negatively influence eating habits.
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Healthy Foods Help Me Grow
Students reconize how to choose healthy food and about why they need to eat healthy.
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Steps to a Healthier You
Students explore the food pyramid. In this dietary health lesson, students examine the food pyramid on the MyPyramid.gov website and discuss healthy eating strategies. There are various links to websites in this lesson.
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Goal Setting
Students understand how they can incorporate dietary guidelines in their daily life. In this investigative instructional activity students set dietary goals and incorporate an activity to learn how to create a new seed variety while...
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Healthy Food Choices
Students identify healthy food choices. In this nutrition instructional activity, students review the food pyramid and write down their favorite food on a post-it note. Students create a bar graph of favorite foods using the post-it notes.
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The Food Guide Pyramid - Daily Food Journals
Pupils examine the Food Guide Pyramid, then keep daily food journals. They evaluate their current nutritional habits and create plans for developing healthier eating habits.
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WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE?
Students examine different food groups and identify the daily amounts of each that are necessary for healthy eating. In this food pyramid lesson students evaluate their own diets and see how they can eat more nutritiously.
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Food Webs
Students recognize interdependence in a food web by using yarn and notecards to create a food web and discussing what would happen if one of the organisms from a certain trophic level is removed.
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Menu for an Athlete
Football, basketball, softball. What do these sports have in common? Athletes. Young scholars learn about and discuss the food pyramind, especially grains, with the thought that they will be planning a pre-competition meal and snack for...
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Nutrition
Seventh graders investigate nutrition and nutrients. In this nutrition or diet lesson, groups of students create a poster, commercial, or skit about a nutriet which will be presented or performed to the rest of the class after...
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Food and Your Body -- How to Maintain a Healthy Diet
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...
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Eating Healthy
Sixth graders record what they eat for an entire day. They use the Food Pyramid and determine whether or not they ate the recommended amounts and recommended foods. They write a plan of how they could improve their eating habits.
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