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Fast Food Junkie

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study their favorite fast food meal and analyze their nutritional value.
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Your Guide to Eating Right

For Students 4th - 6th
A simple, yet effective, activity on food and beverage choices awaits your learners. They make a list of healthy and unhealthy Appetizers, Beverages,and Entrees at a restaurant they've gone to recently. This activity would come in very...
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Forest Health

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young foresters examine the strategies, like prescribed burns and thinning, that are employed to ensure healthy forests.
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Breakfast: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate nutrition and the role breakfast plays in everyday life.  In this healthy eating activity, students discuss their own breakfast habits and the meal they would prefer to have every morning.  Students practice...
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Your Genes: Your Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine different healthy behaviors and choose one of their own that they would like to change or improve.  In this healthy lesson students write a letter to themselves that they are going to make a change and why it is...
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I Can Balance. You Can Balance.

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
It's disturbing to think that one third of children born after the year 2000 will suffer from diabetes and perhaps be the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents! Too many youngsters are not eating properly and are not...
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Babysitting and Child Care

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The first job most of us ever experienced, was babysitting. Prepare young adults for the responsibilities of child care with Babysitting 101. They'll discuss safety, food preparation, and the that responsibilities babysitting entails....
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Mater Your Munchies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the various food groups while doing a physical activity.
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Calcium -bonebuilders

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate their understanding of a body's need for calcium by constructing healthy diet habits with calcium rich food.
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Drive-Thru Nutrition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research fat and calorie content of various food items at 12 popular fast-food restaurants. They compare the foods and create a day's worth of healthy menus using food from those restaurants.
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Investigate the Role of Cholesterol from Cholesterol-rich Foods in the Human Body

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders assess fat content of different food samples. In this biology lesson plan, 8th graders create a flowchart showing the transport of cholesterol in the bloodstream. They perform tests for the presence of lipids on food samples.
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Favorite Snack

For Students 1st
In this favorite foods learning exercise, 1st graders study the various healthy and unhealthy snack food options. Students circle their favorite snack.
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Healthy Teeth

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss how unhealthy teeth and gums affect health. In this adult health lesson, students identify foods that are harmful to teeth. They share ways to keep the teeth and gums healthy and disease free.
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Nutrition Lesson Plans That Promote Healthy Habits

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students can learn about good nutrition, and the environment through these inspiring health lesson plans
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Nutrition

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in an original unit about nutrition and record daily intake of food in order to help create a healthy eating plan. They practice making practical food choices for optimum health and then investigate how to maintain...
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Eating a Nutritious Lunch

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify the types of foods and snacks they eat for their lunch. In groups, they identify healthy foods along with unhealthy foods. They design a new lunch menu using only healthy food and identifying which food group they...
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Idioms Quiz: Food 2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online idiom quiz instructional activity, middle schoolers analyze the idiom examples within the sentence and select the correct answer for the meaning of the idioms to complete the 10 exercises.
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You Are What You Eat

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate their eating habits, focusing on the ways in which one assesses whether or not his or her diet is nutritious. They work in small groups to design a menu for a healthy lunch and write a paragraph justifying their choices.
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Healthy Heart

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the power of their heart and provide an opportunity to talk about ways to maintain good health. In this early childhood heart lesson, students diagram a human heart, identify exercises that promote a healthy heart, and...
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Fit for Our Future

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students understand the importance of physical fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle.  For this health lesson students create a display and presentation about what they learned. 
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HAPPY SOIL, SAD SOIL

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners will be able to identify the characteristics of healthy soil and unhealthy soil.Take the class outside to an area of thick grass near trees, if available. Compare the clothes people wear to the thin cover. Discuss the reasons...
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Ice cream in a Bag

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Pupils make ice cream from scratch. They discuss the Food Guide Pyramid and what constitutes healthy and unhealthy food choices. Students experiment states of matter - solids, liquids, and gases. They predict each stage of the ice cream.
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Snacks

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study how healthy snacks are a better choice and the results of unhealthy snacking.  In this healthy eating activity students examine how to choose good healthy snacks.
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Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a nonprofit organization activity for hunger outreach problems. In this service project lesson, students practice counting coins, complete a service project for a hunger outreach, discuss nutrition and healthy...

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