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5 A Day

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine their family's fruits and vegetables intake. In this adult health lesson plan, students share how they prepare certain vegetables. They explain why it's important to eat a healthy diet.
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"How Sweet It Is: Awareness Today Can Defeat Diabetes Tomorrow"

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars explain the importance of having a healthy body and be inspired to make better choices. They research diabetes to become aware of its symptoms, dangers, and prevention. They identify the relationship between childhood...
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A Well Balanced Meal

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are given paper plates and pictures of food. They are to glue the foods they would eat that would make a balanced meal.
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Dietary Guidelines/Food Pyramid

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students study the recommended Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid. They discuss the foods they eat, watch a video about the Food Pyramid and examine actual foods portioned out into recommended serving sizes.
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Health and Growth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars identify healthy foods. In this nutrition lesson, students review the five food groups and categorize healthy and unhealthy foods on a chart. Young scholars develop their own menus.
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Pick a Better Snack and Act

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars 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...
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Rice Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate nutrition by researching rice.  In this food lesson, 3rd graders read about the healthy aspects of rice and how many people in the world eat it.  Students read nutrition labels and discuss the...
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Read the Label

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars read the Nutrition Fact labels to make healthy choices. In this health lesson, students look at labels to identify fat content, protein, carbohydrates, and serving size. They play games with different labels such as Narrow...
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Food + Activity = Weight and Health

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this nutrition learning exercise, students evaluate the school lunch menu and answer 3 short answer questions about it. Students then create a nutritious meal that they would like to eat at school.
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Help Them Shine with Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explain the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables. In this adult health instructional activity, students examine ways to serve more of these to their family. They apply what they have learned to real life scenarios.
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A Helthy Diet

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine their eating habits and experience analyzing data and drawing conclusions. They construct models of the molecular backbone of saturated and unsaturated fats. In addition, they examine the labels of their food, record...
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Plate and Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the health hazards of modern agriculture and how we can choose better food options.  In this healthy eating lesson, students identify different indigenous people in photographs and discuss what they might eat....
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Nutrition 1: Food and the Digestive System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to how the digestive system works in their body. In groups, they discover they need energy and water to live a healthy life. They discover how the body repairs itself and how it grows. They also examine how...
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Nutrition 2: Good Food, Good Health

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how food provides them with energy and materials for their body. In groups, they identify good and bad foods to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Using the internet, they research how food can affect their overall health.
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All Star Fitness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the principles of living a healthy life and establish their own goals that will lead to a healthier lifestyle.  In this fitness lesson students keep records of their goals.
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Munching on Mixtures

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students predict, observe, and record what grasshoppers eat to demonstrate an understanding that grasshoppers and people have nutritional requirements to grow and maintain good health.
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Fit Kid

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars practice and perform the song "Fit Kid" while learning the basics of motion and music and dynamics in this elementary-level instructional activity for the General Music classroom. The instructional activity emphasizes...
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Nutrition: Gregory the Terrible Eater

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars listen to a story about a goat who craves human food. They discover the four basic food groups and discuss what they might eat if they were terrible eaters. Students retell the story by looking at the pictures. They...
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Using Product Labels

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine food labels. They conduct a food label hunt to determine if specific foods are safe and acceptable for people with specific food allergies. They study a variety of food labels to determine whether or not they would...
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Tzedakah: How Can We Help?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify nutritious meals and the prices of a healthy meal. In this nutritious meals lesson, students work in small groups and plan a menu for a nutritious meal. Students figure the total cost of the meal and collect money to...
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My Pyramid

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders analyze the new Food Guide Pyramid. In this healthy diet lesson, 10th graders explore the the website with the new food pyramid. Students use magazines to find foods from the food groups and create their own pyramid....
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Fast Food: You Can Choose!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the nutritional value of fast food. They assess which fast foods are best and worst to eat. They organize their data into tables and graphs and explain their findings to other students.
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Food Environmental Quality And Health

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students focus on the issues that students face during middle childhood. They recognize the negative effects of poor nutrition and make more informed healthy decisions. They conduct further self-analysis in regards to their individual...
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Diseases

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a type of notebook or journal using colored copy paper on which to take notes. They complete research on a certain disease and report on it and then design their own disease causing bacteria or virus. Finally, 6th...

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