Lesson Plan
Southern Nevada Health District

What Am I ?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Have fun learning about fruits and vegetables with a game of pictionary! One team draws a fruit or vegetable on the board, while the other team collaborates to guess what it is. After the game, class members discuss where foods are grown...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mystery Fruits and Vegetables: Why They Are Important to Us

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this health instructional activity, students participate in a guessing game, trying to identify fruits and vegetables without seeing them. Students discuss the...
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Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students make a variety of recipes that include fruits and vegetables. In this fruit and vegetables lesson plan, students make recipes, learn about the proper amounts of fruits and vegetables needed per day, describe how to sanitize...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables: Primary Grades

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete a variety of activities in their study of fruits and vegetables. They role play a grocer in the produce department; they go on a scavenger hunt; they sample different foods made with fruits and vegetables.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables Matching Game

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this fruits and vegetables worksheet, students match words of fruits and vegetables to their pictures. Students complete 34 matches total.
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Nourish Interactive

Learn the Food Groups Memory Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Help youngsters sharpen their memories and learn the food groups with this classic matching activity! Learners take turns flipping over cards with fun images of different fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and proteins until...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Imports and Exports for Making a Food Pyramid

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the food pyramid and discuss it nutritional value. They play a game to determine what types of foods and number of servings they need to complete food pyramids. they can i"import" or "export" cards with foods they need...
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Curated OER

Couch Potato

For Teachers K - 5th
Show your class that being active is more fun than being a couch potato! A fun tag game teachers learners about making healthy eating choices. Over 125,000 teachers have reviewed this activity, and many have written comments about how...
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Curated OER

Sugar and Fat Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a game of chase and learn about healthy food choices. In this physical activity and healthy diet lesson, students play a game of chase by role playing as sugar and fat examples Students name examples of fruits and...
Activity
Curated OER

4th Grade Food Safety Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
From a high-speed hand-washing lesson to identifying important nutrients in fruits and veggies, this resource has several activity ideas and worksheets for teaching food safety to your learners.
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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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Queen Anna Banana's Fruit Group

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in activities focusing on the fruit group and rhyming words.
Unit Plan
True Blue Schools

Now, We’re Cooking!

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Practice nutritional cooking with a collection of fun meal preparation lessons. Each lesson includes a focus, objective, collaborative activity, and recipe to culminate what young cooks have learned about healthy eating.
Lesson Plan
Elementary CORE Academy

Food Foldable

For Teachers 2nd
There's nothing as satisfying as a crunchy carrot or a juicy apple! Teach your middle and high schoolers about healthy eating habits with a set of nutrition activities. After analyzing the model of the food pyramid, learners apply the...
Unit Plan
Special Olympics

Train at School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Keep your mind and body fit with a fun activity about the five food groups. After going over the functions of fruit, vegetables, grains, meats and beans, and dairy, as well as oils and fats, learners participate in a bean bag toss...
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Curated OER

Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid lesson, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups.   Students participate in cross curricular activities...
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Vegetable Twister

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students review vegetables and their nutrient values and production. For this vegetable production worksheet, students read information about the nutrients in vegetables and how they are grown. Students participate in a game of Twister...
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Curated OER

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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Curated OER

Health: Diet and Nutrition

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners access a variety of nutrition and health related resources on the Internet. They examine the food pyramid, match food groups, play interactive games, read an online story, analyze the labels on food packaging, and take a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Five a Day Adventure Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, after examining a food pyramid, demonstrate their knowledge and use of their classroom computers by researching the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables. They also compare/contrast serving sizes and nutrients in...
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Curated OER

Be Kind to Your Teeth

For Students K - 2nd
What kinds of food can be bad for your teeth? Kindergartners and first graders explore dental health with an interactive science inquiry. Given a choice of foods such as celery, cake, and milk, kids choose which ones are better for their...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Vegetarianism As a Growing Trend in the Uk

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the growing trend of vegetarianism in the UK. They participate in a jigsaw reading activity, conduct a role-play discussing the issues of vegetarianism, take a quiz about fruit and vegetables, and complete a food chart...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz - Fun Facts about Bananas 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this research skills worksheet, students read the questions about bananas and research to answer the 10 multiple choice questions.