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Day One: Dinner foods and beverages

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn English vocabulary for dinner foods and beverages. In this ELL lesson plan, students create a list of healthy foods and discuss good food habits. They discuss healthy activities and exercises. 
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Food Preferences and Healthful Eating

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss healthy eating habits. In this food preferences lesson, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant.   Students role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.  
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Kansas Foods A Data and Probability Investigation

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study a number of food products and anticipate which are derived from Kansas crops. They make a list of words associated with the food stuffs and graph the results.
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Understanding Food Labels

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars determine the number of calories, serving size, and vitamins and minerals in different food products and use this information to create a formula determining the number of calories per serving size and the daily...
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Biotechnology, GMOs and Food

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore controversy around genetically modified foods, identify source of controversy, and role play town hall meeting on genetically modified foods, to examine viewpoints and arguments for and against genetic modification.
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Where is Agriculture?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore agriculture. In this agriculture lesson, students read "Where is Agriculture?" and discuss all the things that come from agriculture. Students discuss what they need to survive and give examples of agricultural products...
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Sugar-Coating the Facts

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the food industry's influence on American Student nutritional habits and analyze the nutrition charts found on food packaging. They design their own warning labels for foods targeted at Students.
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Snack Sack

For Teachers 1st
First graders, after exploring agricultural products that can be considered snack foods, experience the concepts of ratio and probability. They analyze and record their class experience after dealing with the following snacks: peanut...
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SunPro After-Sun Treatment

For Students 5th
In this vocabulary advancement worksheet, 5th graders read and interpret an original description of an after-sun cream product to find words that are related to ten key words listed for mastery. Students answer five true and false...
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Polymers Lab: Bouncy Ball and Slime

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate chemical reactions to produce polymers. In this polymers lesson plan, 8th graders experiment with sodium silicate and ethyl alcohol to make a polymer. They also experiment with borax and glue to make a polymer....
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Picture Perfect Pyramid

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the concept of the food pyramid. The lesson includes background information for the teacher to lecture students about the food pyramid. They construct a model of the pyramid using cereal boxes. The projects could...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while reviewing an extensive vocabulary list on the board, identify basic food groups with the help of picture cards. As a group, they create a collage of healthy and unhealthy foods using pictures from magazines and newspapers.
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PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMID

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a model of the USDA's Food Pyramid Guide, using shoe boxes. They bring an assortment of shoe boxes from home. Students are given a copy of the "Food Guide Pyramid." They wrap boxes for the bread group in white, the...
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My Pyramid

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this food pyramid worksheet, students read about the servings recommended for food group and tips about staying healthy. Students can also write their food choices for a day. The worksheet also includes a letter to the family and...
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Calories and Nutrition

For Students 6th - 10th
In this calories worksheet, students use a chart comparing the calories found in different food items to complete 3 short answer questions.
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Cycles, Systems, and Webs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review the parts of the plant and their functions.  In this plant lesson, 4th graders recognize that plants must transfer energy to make food.  Students understand the interdependence of organisms in an...
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They Don't Just Eat Grass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students consider the USDA daily recommendations to create a "feed" product for middle schoolers. In this Health lesson, students learn about the ingredients in feed that is fed to livestock and apply the method to creating feed rations...
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Model of a Well

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars complete an experiment using wire screening, wires, water, sand, and food coloring to compare the relationship of groundwater to wells. In this water lesson plan, students observe and record what they see after they...
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Chemical Reactions - Borax & Glue, Cream

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in groups, complete two activities in which various substances are combined, resulting in a very different substances. They discuss reactants and products and chemical reactions.
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Building a Terrarium System

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create their own terrariums.  In this ecological model lesson, students create terrariums using soil, seeds, pebbles, and two liter bottles.  Learners compare the elements of a  terrarium to a food web.
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Pollution and Marine Life

For Students 7th - 9th
In this pollution and marine life worksheet, students use 9 given terms related to types of pollution and ocean food chains to complete sentences. Students number the effects of human sewage and soil runoff that harm ocean organisms in...
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Products of the Rain Forest

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore products of the rain forest. They consider items from their home that may have been products of the rain forest by checking ingredients on product labels. They share their discoveries in class and create a...
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Macromolecule Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
During a macromolecule lab, young chemists perform multiple tests, including iodine starch tests, to determine if eight mystery foods contain lipids, sugars, or starches.
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Our Hungry Planet: Design Thinking Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Scholars investigate an issue associated with food systems and design their own solutions. Working collaboratively, they follow each step in the design process to complete the 10th lesson plan of the 13-part Our Hungry Planet series.

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