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Nutrition Worksheet on Phenylketonuria
Do you have young scholars living with Phenylketonuria? This simple quiz use both humor and images to help lighten the mood when instructing kids with PKU on their special nutritional needs. The five multiple-choice questions cover...
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Nutrition
Students create a video incorporating clay animation and skits. Using their video creation, students explain and explore the five basic food groups, nutrition news, nutrients, benefits and food examples. They maintain a food journal,...
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Balance of Nutrition
Students explore nutrition by completing a group activity. In this balanced meal lesson, students identify the five food groups and discuss their favorite foods from each group. Students utilize illustrations to fill in a fictional plate...
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Nutrition with a Smile
Second graders play a game about personal health behaviors related to nutrition.
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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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So Sweet
Students compare sugar levels in cereals. In this nutrition lesson, students learn how to read a nutrition facts label, predict which products will have the most sugar, discover which cereals contain the most sugar and discuss their...
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Bugs
Learners explore the wonders of bugs. In this bug lesson, students examine various types of bugs. Learners make crafts, sing songs, discuss nutrition, and investigate different types of insects.
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The Color Way
Young scholars study the importance of eating a colorful diet of fruits and vegetables. In this nutritional diet lesson, students complete multiple activities to learn about the nutritional value of colorful fruits and vegetables.
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Five-Alive: The Value of Fruits and Vegetables
Students discuss importance of proper nutrition in staying healthy, examine food pyramid chart and identify different vegetables or fruits via eye gaze, and sample different vegetables or fruits at snack or lunch time.
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Energy Plus!
This lesson seems pretty advanced for K-2nd graders, but there are some pieces that can be used with young learners. Look through this comprehensive, fact-filled lesson and pull out information and activities that you can adapt to fit...
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Eat Smart Be Smart
Get children's blood pumping with this primary grade activity on the human heart. After learning about the important role this muscle plays in the human body, learners monitor their heart rates and discover the importance of staying active.
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There's a Rainbow on My Plate
Students complete a variety of activities to learn about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this healthy eating activity, students complete activity sheets, make a wall poster, create a take home flyer, participate in a...
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My Pyramid
In this food pyramid worksheet, students fill in the 5 boxes at the bottom of the food pyramid and draw or color foods within the 5 food pyramid areas.
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Breakfast of Champions
Second graders classify foods using the food pyramid and write about the foods they eat. They distinguish between healthy and junk food and make healthy choices for their meals. They listen to the story "No Peas for Nellie" and discuss...
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Vital Signs
Students research health-related topics such as good nutrition, exercise, and the human body. They analyze their data and distribute it through the use of the Internet.
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Healthfully Ever After
Second graders discuss five food groups and healthy eating habits.
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Lesson 1: What's Unhealthy in this Classroom?
Students discover behaviors and practices that are unhealthy within their classroom environment. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify behaviors and practices that lead to an unhealthy environment, and discuss how to...
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Familiarizing Students with the Five Food Groups
Students identify an assortment of foods from all of the food groups, then discuss each type of foods' benefits and what happens to the body if it does not get these foods. They classify the foods according to the food groups.
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Sometimes and All the Time Foods
Learners recognize a wide variety of fruit and have a greater understanding about the importance of fruit in their diet, and determine that some fruits' skins are edible and others are not.
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Healthy Food Makes Healthy Body
Students explore the food pyramid. In this healthy eating lesson, students participate in a variety of center activities where they explore the food pyramid and the importance of making healthy food choices. Students also have the...
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New Food Saves Lives, Could End Hunger
Students locate the country of Niger, then read a news article about a new type of food that is being used to fight childhood hunger in Africa. In this current events activity, the teacher introduces the article with map and vocabulary...
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My Pyramid for Kids
Students become familiar with the proper amounts of different types of foods they should eat each day. In this food pyramid lesson, students complete worksheets to develop better eating habits. Students understand the importance of...
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Rice Plants
Second graders investigate what plant is closely related to to rice. In this rice farming lesson plan, 2nd graders dicover the parts of rice and that rice is closely related to grass. Students create a rice picture and write sentences...
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Good Snack,Smart Snack
Second graders pretend to be company managers who design and advertise healthy snacks to sell.
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