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Track Your Food Today

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A colorful chart to record what one eats over the course of a day. The grid is broken down to meal times and five food groups. Colorful There are description of each food group Pictures of foods for each food group
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Weekly Meal Sheet

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Here's a colorful and well-organized chart that young learners can use to write down what they eat each day for a week. The chart has been broken down by food groups and the days of the week.  Colorful Pictures of foods for each...
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US Department of Agriculture

Serving Up My Plate

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Offer your youngsters an extra helping of nutritional knowledge and healthy tips with this resource, which centers around the MyPlate nutritional guide and offers three "courses" of plans and worksheets on the food groups and the...
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Healthy Eating

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn the five basic food groups and what each one consists of. They develop an understanding of why eating healthy is important. They have background knowledge in healthy eating due to the exposure in previous health...
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The Five Food Groups

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Do you eat a balanced diet? Help your learners determine how healthy they are with a fill-in chart that will help them track their food intake. The grid provides color-in stars children can mark when they eat their meats, dairy, fruits,...
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Postponing Intercourse vs. Having Intercourse

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The class brainstorms lists of reasons why young people would choose to delay having sex and why they would choose to have sex. They discuss the lists as a large group and reflect on which reasons would be "good enough" to decide to have...
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Explore Biology

Health Pamphlet Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Biology or health nuts select a disease to research and produce a pamphlet that can be used to inform the public. The tri-fold product is worth 100 points according to the included grading page.
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Beyond Benign

Packed Up Properties

For Students 6th - 8th
Determine physical properties of potential packaging materials. Continuing from previous lessons in the series, the resource asks groups to identify physical properties of the substances. They test for conductivity, solubility, water...
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Food Pyramid Nutrition Puzzles

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students put together food group puzzles on the computer and identify the healthy message in the end. For this food lesson plan, students identify the food group that the puzzle is representing as well.
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Fruit Display

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create a craft activity using the fruit food group. In this fruit craft lesson, students cut out the information and pictures of fruit to learn about the benefits of fruit as well as create a craft activity.
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How Can You Stay Fit?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify ways that cardiovascular fitness is achieved and maintained. In this cardiovascular health lesson, students discuss what aerobic exercise is and list various activities which address cardiovascular fitness. Students run...
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study Thanksgiving. For this physical education and spelling lesson, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.
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Nuffield Foundation

Measuring the Vitamin C Content of Foods and Fruit Juices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Are you getting enough vitamin C? Young scientists determine the amount of vitamin C in fruit juice samples. They accomplish this task by adding DCPIP solution to the samples until the blue color of the DCPIP persists. Once this happens,...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Youth and Tobacco Use

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
There are a number of social, emotional, and physiological reasons why teenagers start smoking, and why they continue smoking into adulthood. Help class members understand why smoking begins in youth—and how to protect themselves from...
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Nutrition

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students design a meal plan with healthy foods based on the food guide pyramid. In this nutrition lesson plan, students identify healthy and unhealthy choices, watch a PowerPoint, and complete a group activity based on the food pyramid.
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Healthy Choice Shopping Frenzy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn the categories of the food pyramid. In this food groups lesson, students learn to categorize food. Through this activity students scoot to different food groups learning about the foods that belong in each group.
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Food Guide Pyramid

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, students read and compare the different food groups and analyze the number of servings recommended for each.
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Pyramids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make pyramids. In this sports and sciences instructional activity students work cooperatively with their group members to build human pyramids. The focus is on safety and working together regardless of personal differences.
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan- Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Students perform locomotor movement.  In this locomotor skills activity, students practice running, hopping, skipping, and walking then form themselves into groups based on a number called out.  Students identify if more or...
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Understanding Abuse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the various forms of child abuse. Using the internet, they discover the proper ways to report abuse to adults and the warning signs of someone being abused. In groups, they complete a case study to end the lesson.
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Diet and Exercise Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils explore their physical abilities by participating in team sports.  In this physical education lesson, students collaborate in groups in one of several team sports before moving on to the next station.  Pupils discuss...
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Ways to Prevent the Spread of Pathogens

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss the ways to prevent the spread of pathogens. In groups, they use the internet to research the ways to prevent disease from spreading. They use this information to create a poster and share the information with the...
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Aging & Body Changes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students complete several activities that have to do with aging.  In this body changes lesson plan students take group averages, measure flexibility and see their changes over time.
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Healthy Choice Shopping Frenzy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the four food groups. In this food pyramid instructional activity. students use pictures of food to determine what food group they belong to. Foods that are placed in the wrong place are discussed.