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Exploding Cheeseburger
Second graders describe the components of a healthy diet. For this nutrition and health lesson, 2nd graders identify the importance in eating a variety of healthy food. Students explain what makes a healthy diet.
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Does Your Diet Stack Up?
Third graders explore nutritional variety. In this nutritional variety lesson plan, 3rd graders explore the many options for a healthy and well balanced diet. Students explore the food pyramid with nutritional guidelines from other...
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Astronaut Diet
Young scholars discover foods that astronauts eat in space and eat an actual astronaut meal. In this astronaut diet lesson, students discover how food is freeze-dried and packaged for use in space. Young scholars compare...
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Weight Control
Students study the importance of a healthy diet. In this weight control instructional activity students divide into groups and develop a healthy lunch menu.
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Nutrition and Body Image
Students study nutrition and how to maintain a healthy diet. In this adolescent nutrition lesson plan students complete several activities that allow them to see different nutrition scenarios.
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Eat Right, Stay Fit
Young scholars examine what a healthful diet is, and examine their own eating habits to see if they are getting the right foods to stay healthy. In this eating right lesson students keep track of what they eat for several days and...
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WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE?
Students examine different food groups and identify the daily amounts of each that are necessary for healthy eating. In this food pyramid lesson students evaluate their own diets and see how they can eat more nutritiously.
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Nutrition
Seventh graders describe the healthy choices about food. In this nutrition lesson, 7th graders use the food pyramid to help them in making nutritious choices. Students discuss their diet and talk about how it can be improved.
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What Are Calories?
Students examine calories for the human body. In this calorie lesson, students explore the energy expenditures needed for different types of activities and how many calories are needed to support daily functions.
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Healthy Eating
Young scholars examine healthy diet. In this health lesson, students use Online resources and provided web links to research the effects of diet on the body.
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Meal Plan for an Older Person with Diabetes
Students plan a healthy meal for elderly diabetics. In this nutrition lesson, students practice planning a healthy meal by creating a meal plan for an elderly diabetic patient. They learn the importance of controlling diabetes through diet.
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Food Preferences and Healthful Eating
Students discuss healthy eating habits. In this food preferences instructional activity, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant. Students role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.
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Fruits and Veggies More Matters: Teen Lesson
Students study the importance of increasing their fruit and vegetable consumption. In this healthy diet lesson, students study the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables based on their age, sex, and activity level. Students list three...
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Our Choices Matter: What You Eat
Students will record their food choices for one week, noting calories, protein and vitamin content of foods using a given USDA website. Students will discuss whole class the important of proper nutrition and its role, and what happens...
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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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Animal Research
In this animals worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by choosing an animal and then researching information such as anatomy, diet, enemies, habitat, and reproduction.
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Healthy Foods
In this healthy foods coloring learning exercise, learners color all of the foods that are healthy. They put an X on the foods that are not healthy. Finally, students circle their favorite fruit. There are 12 pieces of food on the page...
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Beginning Matching-- Food Part 2
In this word and picture matching worksheet, students draw a line from 11 pictures of common foods to the words that name each one.
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Food Descriptions
In this health worksheet, learners look for the right descriptions to describe the food items in the pictures and answer the questions for each one.
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Bank On It ! Worksheet: Food
For this health worksheet, students study 10 terms in a word bank which pertain to healthy eating and avoiding saturated fats. Students fill in the blanks in a paragraph so the sentences make sense. The words in the word bank are not...
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Meet Your Meat
For this diet worksheet, students read and examine meat products and record various facts that include production, consumption, and sale of meats.
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The Tween Scene
In this diet worksheet, students examine the dietary requirements for young teenagers and compare it to the allowances for children or adults.
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Beef Taco and Cheese Pockets
In this health learning exercise, middle schoolers examine the recipe for cheese pockets and beef tacos. They could then prepare the recipe by cooking them.
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Let's Go Shopping!
In this nutrition worksheet, students investigate the need for a balanced healthy diet by making a shopping list. Kids cut out 24 grocery items. Students paste desired items in the grocery cart and color all the pictures.