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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 2: Chemical Cuisine
By exploring the ingredients in various foods and phuds, students experience first-hand how phuds are engineered to taste irresistible. Students learn and discuss a new Food Rule around eating foods with easily pronounceable ingredients.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 9: Lettuce Turnip the Beet
In this instructional activity middle schoolers explore plant-based foods enjoyed by their own and other families and cultures and how to face challenges to healthy eating.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 7: Rooting for Plants
This is the first lesson in the "Mostly Plants" section. Students are introduced to the amazing variety of plant-based foods and relate that to MyPlate, our national dietary guidance. Watching a clip from In Defense of Food and learning...
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Classroom Connections: Wallace & Gromit Veggie Power
This downloadable teaching resource for Grades 2-3 has lessons on healthy eating designed to encourage children to eat more vegetables. Students explore their own and others' food preferences and learn about food groups.
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Alex: You Are What You Eat
Girls and boys explore the connections between a well-balanced diet and a healthy body. Pupils keep a food diary, then compare their diet to the recommended daily allowance of food servings. Students use Thinkfinity websites to examine...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 4: Don't Be Fooled
For this lesson, middle schoolers learn that phud logos are everywhere and easily recognized and explore more about the hazards of marketing. For the second "Capture It" project students take a photo or draw a picture of one phud that is...
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Alex: What's on Your Plate?
In today's fast food world, it can be hard to make healthy eating choices. In this lesson, young scholars will learn how they can incorporate healthy eating habits in their daily routines. They will use menus from local restaurant chains...