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Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study a healthy diet. In this healthy diet activity, 3rd graders investigate the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables. Students compare a healthy diet to their personal diet.
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Case of the Missing Pumpkin

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore holidays by participating in a pumpkin activity. In this vegetation lesson, 4th graders discuss the different uses for pumpkins, not just Halloween decorations. Students identify the nutrients pumpkins need to...
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Spill Your Guts

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students practice nutrition facts. In this health and nutrition lesson, students participate in a game in which two teams compete to "spill their guts" by quickly answering factual questions pertaining to nutrition.  This lesson is...
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Help Oliver Find All the Vegetables!

For Students 1st - 5th
In this vegetables worksheet, students circle the vegetables and cross out the other food. Students complete this for 13 different kinds of food.
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The Food Pyramid and the Human Body

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the digestive system. In this food pyramid activity students investigate the food pyramid. Students make connections between eating healthy and how it makes them feel.
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Fruits and Vegetables Matching Game

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this fruits and vegetables worksheet, students match words of fruits and vegetables to their pictures. Students complete 34 matches total.
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Vegetable Idioms

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this idioms learning exercise, students watch a video about idioms, fill in the blanks, and define what certain idioms mean. Students complete 3 activities.
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Vegetables: memory

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this vegetables worksheet, students look at the vegetables on each page and memorize the number of each vegetable and then name each vegetable and how many there were. Students view 12 vegetables total.
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Vegetable Creatures

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use different foods to enhance academic skills in all area contents.  In this food activity lesson, students use food, such as "bugs on a log" (raisins on peanut butter celery) to estimate and practice multiplication. ...
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Kitchen Garbage: Scrambled Veggies Game

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vegetables worksheet, students unscramble the names of the vegetables given to them. Students unscramble 10 vegetable names.
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Native Lands: Indian in Georgia

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students bring in vegetables that the Native Americans ate. In this vegetable lesson, students create a graph that shows how many students brought in each vegetable. They measure their vegetable to find the length, circumference, and...
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Container Gardening: Vegetable Support

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this container gardening:  vegetable support worksheet, students list vining and bush varieties of 6 vegetables, read about ways of supporting plants and list other things plants can grow on.
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Chili Pepper: Print and Color

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word recognition learning exercise, students trace the compound words "chili pepper", write the word independently, and color the picture of chili peppers.
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Lesson 3: Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fruits and vegetables.  In this nutrition instructional activity, students generate a list of all known fruits and vegetables.  Students cut out and compile pages for a weekly fruits and vegetable...
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Yummy for my tummy!

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the story Tops and Bottoms and identify vegetables that are eaten from the stem, root, and leaf of a plant. For this vegetables lesson plan, 1st graders learn vocabulary about different vegetable parts and write...
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Colors: Vegetables

For Students K - 2nd
In this vegetables worksheet, students color the vegetables the correct colors. Students color 5 different kinds of vegetables the correct colors.
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Fruit and Vegetable Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create complex forms from simple items. In this portrait lesson plan, students examine the work of artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and compose self-portraits using vegetables and fruits as features on the face.
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Pick a Better Snack and Act

For Teachers K - 1st
Students make healthy choices. In this healthy living mini-unit, students make healthy lifestyle choices through hands-on activities, songs and movement. This mini-unit includes lessons on the food pyramid, fruits, vegetable, and staying...
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Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this fruits and vegetables worksheet, students use charts about food choices to solve problems, use logical thinking to complete a chart and find food names in a word scramble.
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Fruits and Vegetables: Dictionary Activity

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this fruits and vegetables dictionary worksheet, students fill in "dictionary pages," using guide words on each page and a list of words given at the bottom of the page.
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Where Do They Grow?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete worksheets. In this fruits and vegetables lesson, students complete a worksheet on where fruits and vegetables grow where they draw connecting lines. Students color fruits and vegetables on a worksheet.
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Pepper Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners examine different types of peppers. In this vegetable lesson, students compare and contrast several peppers, learn about the growth cycle, taste a stuffed pepper dish, and create their own pepper mini-book.
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Grouping Fruits and Vegetable

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the differences between fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition lesson, students identify the properties of fruits and vegetables and group various fruits and vegetables into categories.
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Food Matching

For Students K - 2nd
In this food matching worksheet, students cut out text and picture cards. Students match the 12 food pictures to the appropriate food description cards.