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The Food Connection
Young scholars examine the connection between the foods on the food pyramid and agricultural products. They identify the food groups, discuss foods from each group, complete two handouts, and construct a desktop food pyramid, placing...
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Where in the World?
Students evaluate botany by participating in a class discussion. For this agriculture lesson, students identify the importance of knowing where food comes from and they discuss what their breakfast consisted of and where it came from....
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Health and Nutrition Lesson Plan: Learning Healthy Eating Habits With Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry
Learners distinguish healthy foods from junk foods. For this personal health and nutrition lesson, students make Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry. Learners use the puppets to role play discussion about healthy eating.
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Planning: To Get Enough Money for Food
Students investigate methods that families use for planning meals and budgeting for them. In this nutrition lesson, students complete activities that require them to determine how much it costs to feed children at different ages....
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Why Plan Meals?
Students investigate methods that families use for planning meals. For this nutrition lesson, students play a game that requires them to plan and pay for nutritious meals
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Introduction to Nutrition
Students investigate the five food groups. In this nutrition lesson, students track their food over the weekend, and see if they are eating healthy. Then students get an opportunity to track their eating again to see if it improves.
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Healthy Family Meals
For this healthy family meals worksheet, students read a short selection that details a family's need to eat more healthful meals. They answer 5 true or false questions about the reading before writing a short essay detailing how the...
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Eat Right!
Students use magazines and other food pictures to arrange healthy meals onto construction paper.