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Food Needs, Food Wants

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore wants and needs. In this family budgeting lesson, students play the Food Money game to help them distinguish between food wants and needs. Students discuss their impressions of the game and food budgets.
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Sometimes And All the Time Foods

For Teachers K
Students utilize a picture of a lunch box and draw pictures of healthy food choices with which to fill it. The reasons for their choices of particular foods are discussed and the concepts of sometimes foods and all the time foods are...
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Food Preservation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the variety of food preservation methods available today. In groups, they participate in an experiment to determine the conditions that encourage or stop the growth of bacteria. To end the lessons, they discuss the...
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Organize Your Favorites (Food)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this healthy foods worksheet, pupils organize the names nutrient-rich foods into categories. Students also read passages about nutrition and respond to three short-answer questions.
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Native American Foods

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars explore Native American foods.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students research the types of foods Native Americans across the country typically ate.  Young scholars summarize a recipe in their own...
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3D Food Guide Pyramid

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create their own 3D Food Guide pyramid. In this health science lesson, students assess their eating and exercise habit. They design a healthy meal plan and exercise to incorporate in their lives.
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Food Record Practice Problems

For Students 4th - 8th
In this food record worksheet, students record food choices and their health benefits, amounts, calculate ingredients, and more. Students complete 5 problems.
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Learning the "REAL" Phe Content of Foods

For Students 6th - 7th
For this portion size worksheet, students estimate the portion size, weight and amount of phe for 8 different foods before weighing each food in grams. Students answer 10 essay questions about nutrition and portion size. This worksheet...
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Favorite Foods

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore human health by completing food choice worksheets. In this world hunger lesson, students discuss the importance of eating three daily meals and how to feed the underprivileged through charities and soup kitchens....
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Food Group Craze

For Teachers K - 12th
Students play a game to learn or reinforce prior learning of the food groups within the food guide pryamid.
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Healthy Food Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a tag game while practicing healthy food choices. They must move safely in their own space and tag gently. They also have discussed in class the differnce between healthy foods and taste good foods.
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Mexican Food

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the history of Mexican food and study the Spanish names for common foods. They create a menu of foods using these Spanish words.
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Your Food Dollar (and Cents)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine where their food dollars go while recognizing coins and making change. They identify their favorite foods, receive one dollar, and take away amounts for each person involved in the production of their food dollar.
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Food Poisoning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students study the prevention of the four major types of food poisoning. They write a letter of advice to an imaginary friend who has had food poisoning seven times within the last year.
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From the Farm to Your Table: Where Does Our Food Come From?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover where the food they eat comes from. Using maps, they identify the agricultural areas of the United States and the products that are grown in each area. Using the internet, they research how food gets to America from...
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Food For Keeps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars investigate the concept of food preservation. They use the internet to conduct research, specifically the methods of processing the students' favorite foods. They are introduced to the project using realia like beef jerky...
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What Foods Melt?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science learning exercise, students experiment to determine which foods melt using hot water in metal pans. They write predictions about which foods will melt and which will melt the fastest. They perform the experiment and note...
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Food In Other Countries

For Students 5th - 6th
In this food in other countries worksheet, students write a report on the food eaten in another country by researching what plants they grow and how they prepare the food, then present the report to a group.
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Heart Healthy Food Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a game of musical chairs that discusses heart health. In this health lesson, students walk around a group of chairs and when the music stops they sit down. Some chairs will have index cards with a picture of a...
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Agriculture and Food

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students discuss the foods they eat and why they eat them. In this nutrition lesson, students determine what foods people might eat in Cyprus and create a traditional meal tasting five traditional recipes of Cyprus set up like...
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Food or Not Food?

For Students K - 2nd
In this food worksheet, students analyze 12 drawings of different objects, some of which are food and some are not. Each object has a number next to it. Students put the number in the Food column if the object is food. They put the...
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Egyptians and the PKU Food Pyramid

For Students 3rd
In this Food Pyramid worksheet, 3rd graders study the make up and components of the food pyramid and the pyramids of the ancient Egyptians.  Students answer 10 true/false questions and complete a graphic organizer at the bottom...
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African life VS American life: Food and 3rd World and 1st World counties

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the difference in 3rd world and 1st world countries. In this social studies lesson, 3rd graders are divided into groups and given varying amounts of food. Students discuss the unfair distribution of the food....
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Food Research

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this food research worksheet, students choose a country and use this page to record information they research about the foods of that region. Students answer the 3 questions, then fill out a recipe card for a food dish typical of...

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