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Breakfast: Healthy for Me and Healthy for the Environment

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop criteria for a healthy and environmentally friendly breakfast and use these criteria to design a breakfast menu. They use a decision chart to evaluate their choices which is imbedded in this plan.
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You Are What You Eat

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils study the different food groups and what nutrients are needed for a healthy diet.  In this food groups lesson students complete several activities in classifying food. 
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You Are What You Eat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine food labels and study serving size and calories.  In this healthy eating lesson plan students complete several activities to understand food labels.
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Healthful Eating

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners read a story about how cartoon characters are partially to blame for American's obesity problem, and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this healthful eating lesson plan, students respond to literature by...
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Class and Health: You Are What You Eat

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students determine a working definition of class in order to determine how social class can affect personal health. They research their own nutritional needs and work to encourage healthy change in their communities.
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Track Your Food Today

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A colorful chart to record what one eats over the course of a day. The grid is broken down to meal times and five food groups. Colorful There are description of each food group Pictures of foods for each food group
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Body Mass Index (BMI)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How do you calculate your Body Mass Index, and why is this information a valuable indicator of health? Class members discover not only what BMI is and practice calculating it using the height and weight of six fictitious individuals, but...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Diabetes: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After reading a series of articles that provide background information about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, class members design a meal plan and an activity plan for a weeklong summer camp for 5- to 8-year olds with diabetes. A second...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Cold and Flu: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Wouldn't it be lovely if people were immune from colds and flu? Alas, such is not the case; however, there are things we can do to avoid getting or spreading these pesky health hazards. Middle schoolers read articles that provide them...
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Graze Like a Cow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how a cow digests the grass they eat. In this science/math lesson plan, students compare the quality of forage. Additionally, students determine the effects of rangeland health on the production.
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Jr. Chef Club Making Brainy Breakfasts

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars identify the benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast. In this nutrition activity, students read food labels to identify foods that are low in sugar. Young scholars create a healthy breakfast by using eggs and low-fat...
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Exploring Dietary Guidelines and Healthy Eating Patterns

For Teachers 5th - 8th
How nutritious is a tiny lollipop? Pass them out to your class as they view a PowerPoint presentation on the basics of nutrition. The students measure and record their weight and height and then carry out a computer activity using their...
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Healthy Eating: Vitamins

For Teachers 4th - 7th
The first five slides contain photographs of foods containing each of the major vitamins: A, B, C, D, and E. Then there is a slide explaining each of the three macro nutrients. The final slide is a low-quality graphic of the food...
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What Am I Missing?

For Teachers K - 8th
Discuss nutrition and identify components of a healthy diet, view a Food Guide Pyramid, and create a Personal Food Pyramid, listing all foods eaten in the past 24 hours. Compare food lists with the standard Food Guide and determine where...
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Junk Food Jungle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students become familiar with the nutritional value of foods advertised on television and in magazines. They discuss different types of foods and where snack food fits into a healthy diet. They categorize the foods they eat as healthy or...
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Another Argument at the Dinner Table?

For Students 4th - 6th
Here is an interesting worksheet on discursive text. Learners read a short essay that expresses two opinions regarding choices of foods to eat by young people. After reading the text, pupils must fill out the worksheet. It has them write...
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Happy Whole-idays

For Students K - 8th
Take a look into how whole grains support growth, provide energy to play, and help us to stay strong with a fun-filled resource. The worksheet offers interesting food facts, an exercise in nutrition label reading, a recipe...
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Did You Eat That! - Food Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this health and diet instructional activity, learners ask ten of their friends what their favorite vegetables are. Then they tally their votes and shade them in on the graph provided.
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"Where is My Food?"

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate the monarch's searching behavior and ability to find food. They determine whether or not a caterpillar can find food in a simple Y-shaped maze. They record and graph or chart the data from several attempts using...
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"Wet" Your Appetite: Conserving Water

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate how water is utilized in producing food. In this agriculture lesson, students examine how much water goes into the creation of their daily menu. Students create a new menu that can conserve water and cut their water...
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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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Eating for Your Future

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students brainstorm ways to live healthy. For this health science lesson, students recipes that are healthy and appealing. They compile all recipes and develop a class cookbook.
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BMI: Body Mass Indicator

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover their body weight and composition. In this health lesson plan, students use a body mass indicator to identify their percentage of body fat. Students develop an exercise plan and record progress throughout a month.
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Mastering Microbes

For Students 6th - 12th
Small but mighty! Learners explore the role of microbes in a healthy ecosystem. An engaging activity asks pupils to design an aquaponics system that demonstrates that healthy microbes are necessary to maintain the ecosystem.

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