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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Search

For Students 2nd - 4th
Encourage healthy eating, cooking, and goal setting with a word search that showcases a variety of fruits and vegetables, and provides a four-step plan to eat more of them. 
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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Blanks

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Create a silly cooking themed story using nouns, adjectives, verbs, and more! Pupils fill in the blanks using their knowledge of different types of fruit, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy, then read the story aloud to hear a whacky...
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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Scramble

For Students 2nd - 4th
Discover a variety of ways to eat and cook whole grains with a word scramble and secret code worksheet. Class members uncover seven whole grain options before using a number system to decode a secret message. 
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Cooking Matters

Breakfast Boost

For Students K - 8th
A healthy and balanced breakfast is essential to maintaining a day's worth of solid energy and mind-power. Encourage class members to eat a smart breakfast with a worksheet that provides interesting food facts, a questionnaire looking...
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Choose My Plate

MyPlate Coloring Sheet

For Students 2nd - 4th
Get creative coloring the MyPlate food group plate! Each food group—grains, dairy, protein, vegetables, and fruit—is labeled within their portioned section of a plate that sits next to a fork. 
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Curated OER

Nutrition Vocabulary Word Searches

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students complete word searches based on nutrition vocabulary. In this nutrition lesson plan, students choose the food group and select a word search based on the group.
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Nutrition Crossword Puzzles: Katilin's Crossword Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a crossword about nutrition by reading the clues and typing in the correct words. In this nutrition lesson plan, students have either a breakfast, food safety, fiber, lunch, or fruits and veggies crossword to choose from.
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Identify Nutrient Sources

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students identify the nutrients in food and its functions. In this nutritional needs lesson, students create a chart that identifies the food source, the function of the nutrient, and the effects of a deficiency or excess of the nutrient.
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Nutrition for Young Children

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the dietary guidelines for young children.  In this healthy diet lesson students examine the issues surrounding the children's diets. 
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Does Your Diet Stack Up?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore nutritional variety. In this nutritional variety activity, 3rd graders explore the many options for a healthy and well balanced diet. Students explore the food pyramid with nutritional guidelines from other countries.
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Food Security, Nutrition and Health

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the concepts of food security and malnutrition. In this healthy diets lesson plan, students discuss hunger. food security, and malnutrition. Students collages that depict a world in which no one goes hungry and share...
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Food Smarts: Mypyramid For Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners create a menu based on the nutritious choices they pick out from MyPyramid and the video they watch. In this nutrition lesson plan, students describe what each color band on the pyramid represents, use charts, discuss nutrition...
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"Study Finds Soft Drink Consumption Up, Health Down"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars compare the nutrients in soda with those in milk after reading an online article. They identify micronutrients that are important in the teen years and those that help stave off disease.
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Health Lesson: Food Pyramid

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners identify each level of the food pyramid and keep a record of their food intake.  For this food pyramid lesson, students relate the food pyramid to the Gaza Pyramids.  Learners discuss the purpose and plan of the food pyramid and...
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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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Our Interests

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover what mental health is. They discuss examples and draw pictures of themselves taking care of their mental health. They write a story about a time when they felt good about themselves.
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Quench That Thirst

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the sugar and calorie content of different beverages. In this adult health lesson, students analyze how advertising can be very misleading. They determine the correct amount of juice or beverage they should take per day.
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Super-sized! Is it really a deal?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss the pros and cons of eating in fast food places. In this adult health lesson, student examine the fat and calorie content of fast food meals. They share ways to make healthy food choices.
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What's Cooking? It Starts with a Plan and a List

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students create a meal plan for their family. In this adult health science lesson plan, students discuss the benefits of using a shopping list. They explain how these methods can help them save time and make healthy meals.
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Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explain the important role of water in the body. In this adult health lesson, students examine foods with high water content. They share ways to get the recommended amount of water per day.
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Nemours KidsHealth

Breakfast: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate nutrition and the role breakfast plays in everyday life.  In this healthy eating activity, students discuss their own breakfast habits and the meal they would prefer to have every morning.  Students practice...
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3-Every-Day of Dairy: Nutrient Package

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the importance of calcium in their diets. In this nutrition lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to conduct surveys regarding dairy and assessing what they eat. Students discover the...
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Your Guide to Eating Right

For Students 4th - 6th
A simple, yet effective, activity on food and beverage choices awaits your learners. They make a list of healthy and unhealthy Appetizers, Beverages,and Entrees at a restaurant they've gone to recently. This activity would come in very...
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Heart Healthy

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students assess their risk of heart disease. In this adult health activity, students differentiate saturated and unsaturated fats. They discuss different heart healthy food ideas.

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