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Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students will discuss the benefits of eating healthy. In this healthy diet lesson, students will discuss the importance of eating fresh fruit and vegetables when pregnant or breastfeeding and how to identify healthy fruits and...
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Getting the Most From Your Food

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the food pyramid to learn about healthy food.  In this healthy foods lesson, students create a chart of the healthy foods they eat in a day.  Students discuss their choices and how they could make better choices.
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Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the components of a balanced diet and practice making healthy diet choices. They discuss health-enhancing choices. Students investigate the food pyramid and how to use it to make educated menu decisions. They...
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Nutrition Making Healthy food Choices: Go Heart!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss the importance of eating healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables and what foods should be eaten in moderation. In groups, 2nd graders participate in activities using hula hoops where they categorize healthy...
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Vitamin C

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn and sing a song about vitamins and how important vitamin C is in a healthy diet.
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Fiber

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn and practice the song "Fiber," and explore the importance of fiber in a healthy diet.
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Salad Sisters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn and practice the song "Salad Sisters" and determine how salads are part of a healthy diet.
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Yes I Can!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn and practice the song "Yes I Can Eat 5 a Day" and determine how fruits and vegetables play an integral part in their health.
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Familiarizing Students with the Five Food Groups

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars 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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Microwave Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars take true and false pretest, and explore and practice basic principles of microwave cooking and how to use and care for it properly while preparing foods. Students watch teacher demonstration and then prepare their own...
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Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers K
Students examine importance of making healthy food choices, discuss connection between what we eat and healthy body and heart, discriminate between healthy food or "heart-smart choices," and "junk food," and plan healthy meal or snack.
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Breakfast Cereal - How Nutritious Is Yours?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars analyze the nutritional value of breakfast cereal in order to make an informed choice. They create a stem and leaf plot which analyzes the nutritional value of the cereal they eat on a regular basis. Students write a...
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Caille The Caterpillar

For Teachers K
Students investigate the six groups of the food pyramid. In this food pyramid lesson, students work in a group to find a pictures of their assigned food group. They put the pictures in the "caterpillars" mouth which is based on the...
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Talking about Food, Expressing Likes and Dislikes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore foods.  In this nutrition lesson, students chorally respond to questions about a kitchen PowerPoint, complete a Venn diagram about breakfast and lunch foods, and play a food Bingo game.
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Food Poems and Base Words

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify base words to decipher new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, students complete a graphic organizer while reading about food and nutrition. Students discuss simple and complex endings when using words. 
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in activities associated with the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". They practice using new vocabulary and the days of the week. They create a book about what they ate on the different days of the week and how the...
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Sometimes and All the Time Foods

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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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5 A Day

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore written music.  In this cross-curriculum health and music lesson, students sing a "5 a Day" song about fruits and vegetables.  Students clap a steady rhythm and identify written quarter notes in a 4/4 time signature. ...
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Language Arts #1 Cruciferous Crusaders

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students develop reading comprehension skills while learning the nutritional benefits of cruciferous vegetables.
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Movement concepts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars recognize the connection between food labels and exercise. For this health lesson, students understand how many times they need to dribble to work off a snack.  Young scholars answer questions about the exercise.
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Grocery Store Problem Solving

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice mathematical problem solving skills. In this problem solving lesson plan, 3rd graders develop mathematical problem solving skills using real-world examples.
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Turkey Bowl

For Teachers K - 2nd
Rolling three strikes in bowling is known as a turkey—but in a Thanksgiving-themed bowing game, every pin is a turkey! Young learners practice hand-eye coordination, ball rolling, and weight transfer with an engaging game of Turkey Bowl.
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No Title

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are introduced to and practice with the letter "A" in beginning short sound words through various experiences involving many of their senses. They interact with flash cards that contain the letter "A" sound including animals,...
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Food For Heart Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use a variety of locomotor motions to obtain different pictures of foods for thieir teams. They must decide if the food is always healthy.

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