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Servings and Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
An important part of balancing caloric intake to energy expenditure is knowing how many Calories you are consuming. In the fifth of a seven-lesson series on food and energy, learners estimate their daily caloric intake, then use a...
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Health Concerns Lecture

For Teachers 6th - 10th
This lesson on health concerns includes a ton of information. There is a PowerPoint presentation that walks through the entire lesson. If you want a quick introduction to these topics then run through this slide presentation quickly, but...
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Connecting School Meals and Classroom Learning Making Breakfast Count

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the significance of a healthy breakfast. In this nutrition activity, students participate in an activity that enables them to assess their own eating patterns. Students also analyze breakfast menus to determine...
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Energy Balance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read various health articles. In this being active health lesson, students discover why it is important to be active and eat healthy foods. Students read articles about sleep, the food pyramid and energy.
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Healthy Snacks Project Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
After learning why it is important to limit salt, fat, and sugar in their diets, divide your class into pairs or groups to complete this project. Each group will create two charts: unhealthy and healthy foods. They will cut out food...
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The Human Body

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...
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Smart Snacking Ideas

For Teachers Higher Ed
Educate parents on obesity prevention using these discussion points, specifically geared toward families of preschoolers. You will need to add to this, as it is mostly an outline of topics and objectives.  Concepts include healthy...
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Nutrition 3: Got Broccoli?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover why the human body needs food in order to survive. In groups, they analyze advertising for the foods they eat the most and try to identify the nutritional value of them as well. They complete a worksheet showing them...
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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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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 and Food Science

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the causes and symptoms of food-borne illnesses and ways to prevent them.  In this nutrition lesson students work in teams to investigate a type of food-borne illness and present a scenario about it. 
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Teaching Kids About Healthy Foods: Snacks Alternatives

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars inspect human health by participating in a class game. In this nutrition lesson, students examine an interactive food pyramid and discuss the healthy alternatives to their typical diets. Young scholars complete a flash...
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Nutrition Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners look up nutrition vocabulary words in the dictionary and write a nutritious fact they learned about each of the words. In this nutrition lesson plan, students also play pictionary with the words.
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Nutrition and Oral Health

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in activities that help to educate them on oral health and nutrition.  In this investigative lesson students will identify foods that promote good oral health and hygiene.
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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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Food and Languages of the World

For Teachers K
Students listen to the story "No Blue Food" in this lesson. They then discuss Allegra, the main character, and her hesitation to try new foods. They participate in a matching game in which they match cards to determine a fruit topping...
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Get Your Calcium-Rich Foods

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore foods in the dairy group. In this dairy food lesson, 6th graders examine the nutritional value of dairy foods and determine the proper number of dairy servings per day. Students also evaluate numerous food labels of...
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Family Life Cycle - Children's Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the changing nutritional needs across the life cycle. They create and prepare a variety of healthy foods for children that provide adequate nutrients for optimum growth and development. They identify guidelines in...
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Let the Pyramid Be Your Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students chart foods on the food guide pyramid and design nutritional food plans that include all the food groups.
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Simple Keys and Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify descriptive questions as a method for distinguishing objects and for identifying labels for objects and categorizing objects. They participate in a student grouping activity, then using pictures of different types...
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My Pyramid for Kids

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students become familiar with the proper amounts of different types of foods they should eat each day. In this food pyramid lesson, students complete worksheets to develop better eating habits. Students understand the importance of...
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Soul Food

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify foods that they associate with different cultural groups in which they are members and speculate possible connections between specific foods and the cultures in which they are popular. They also explore the importance...
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Nutrition Fest

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the nutritional needs within a particular disease or health condition. They create a a written report, a food product and a sample menu for one week based on nutritional needs. Students create a food package or display...
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Bug Me While I'm Eating!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore nutritional value of insects as food, and compare the nutritional value of insects with that of their favorite foods by completing a table.

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