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Food Pyramid Mobile

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the food pyramid. In this diet instructional activity, 3rd graders discuss healthy foods, food servings, and food groups. Students cut out a few pictures from magazines representing each food...
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Food Chain: what's for dinner?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify where foods came from and sequence a food chain.  In this food chain lesson, 4th graders define vocabulary related to food chains and order a food chain. Students follow the energy of a food chain. Students...
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Food Web Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explain the main concepts of food webs and food chains. They describe the role of animals, plants, and other organisms in cycling energy and matter through a food web by creating mobiles. Lesson contains adaptations for all levels.
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Food Safety

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students read the brochure that is concerned with the concept of food safety. The dangers and advantages are discussed.
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Raid the Food Pantry

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore the food groups represented on the food pyramid. In this nutrition and physical education lesson, students participate in a game in which teams try to grab a play food object designated by the teacher and return it...
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Uncover the Truth about Food Labels

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students understand the information on food labels. In this food label lesson, students dissect food labels for health information. Students learn to calculate calories. Students complete an interactive quiz.
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Bizarre Food

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students research foods from other countries. In this multicultural food instructional activity, students view a list of foods that kings and queens ate on an overhead transparency and go to the website www.jamessolheim.com/teachers1.htm...
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Eating Our Way to a Healthy Body: Classifying Foods

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine the major food groups. In this classifying foods lesson plan, students discover the 5 food groups as they read books and play games. Students then sort foods into the appropriate food groups
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Moldy Food

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate how mold grows on food. In this mold instructional activity, students review the food pyramid before growing mold on different foods in Zip-Loc bags. They create graphs that show how long it takes for mold to grow on...
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Food Label Scavenger Hunt Lesson: Worksheet with Twenty-one Food Lab

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate the nutritional value of foods. In this scavenger hunt lesson, students compare various foods using food labels to determine their calories, fat, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, and protein. There is a link to the...
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Food Security/Insecurity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students gain awareness of global patterns of food distribution. They are introduced to the concepts of food security and food insecurity. Pupils investigate the nutritional status of others around the world using information from the...
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Food Chains and Food Webs

For Students 6th - 9th
For this biology worksheet, students read about food chains and food webs. They then answer 4 questions regarding the information they just learned. The answers are on the last page in the packet.
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Food Chains

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study food chains, producers, consumers, and decomposers. They play a food chain game and create food chain mobiles or posters. They take a nature hike around the school and observe various parts of a food chain.
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Food Pyramid Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a tag game with the purpose of learning about the food pyramid. For this food pyramid lesson, students are challenged to find photos of specific food groups without being tagged. During this lesson, a whistle is...
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Food Without Oil

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the oil crisis and how it affects the food they eat. In this food production lesson, students look at the foods sold in their grocery store and imagine which would leave if there was no oil to ship the food. They watch...
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Food Safety

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students recognize that safe food preparation is important to good health.  In this food safety instructional activity, students participate in an activity students separate, clean, chill, and cook food safely. Students use Glo Germ...
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Have It Your Way Fast Food

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore how to cut back on fat in fast food meals. In this health lesson, students discuss healthier food choices they can make when eating at fast food restaurants. Students complete a fast food contract.
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4-4-3-2 Food Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the quantities of those foods they must eat each day in order to have a balanced diet. They determine the quantities from each food group they need to eat for a balanced diet.
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Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify producers and consumers, including scavengers and decomposers, and discuss role each plays in food web. They then make diagram of possible food chain that might include skull pictured on Montana's quarter, and...
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Food Energy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare the energy value of traditional foods eaten by indigenous people with those of modern commercial foods. They use a calorimeter to measure and calculate the amount of stored energy in various food types, and identify the...
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Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore why food chains are important. In this food chain lesson, 3rd graders break into small groups to represent parts of the food chain. Different amounts of food are given to each group and any spilled food will be...
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2005 USDA Food Guide

For Students 4th
In this food pyramid worksheet, 4th graders will answer 6 multiple choice questions about the newest version of the food pyramid (released in 2005), compare and contrast the old and new food guide using a Venn diagram, write a brief...
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English Exercises: Fast Food Goes Organic

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary and listening skills online learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle with the names of fast foods that are shown in clip art pictures. They watch a YouTube video about a fast food restaurant becoming...
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Food Chains & Food Webs

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine how energy is lost through different trophic levels.  In this trophism lesson students construct a food web and view a video. 

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