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Eating a Nutritious Lunch
Students identify the types of foods and snacks they eat for their lunch. In groups, they identify healthy foods along with unhealthy foods. They design a new lunch menu using only healthy food and identifying which food group they belong.
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Nutrition Making Healthy food Choices: Go Heart!
Second graders discuss the importance of eating healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables and what foods should be eaten in moderation. In groups, 2nd graders participate in activities using hula hoops where they categorize healthy...
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Healthy Teeth
Students discuss how unhealthy teeth and gums affect health. In this adult health lesson, students identify foods that are harmful to teeth. They share ways to keep the teeth and gums healthy and disease free.
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Nutrition Lesson Plans That Promote Healthy Habits
Students can learn about good nutrition, and the environment through these inspiring health lesson plans
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Understanding the Risk of Substance Abuse Unit
Teenage brains are different! Understanding that the teenage brain is still developing and thus more impacted by substance abuse is the key concept in a three-lesson high school health unit. Participants learn about how the brain and...
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Reading: The Food Pyramid
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners read a one page text about the food pyramid. Students then complete 8 sentences with the correct words from 2 choices.
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Food Guide Pyramid Lesson Plan
Pupils draw sets of snacks that they feel are healthy and unhealthy. They can color their drawings.
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House Bill No. 4097
Students identify healthy and unhealthy foods while considering a bill that would ban certain foods in schools. Through survey and discussion, they discuss a proposed legislative bill that would ban certain types of food in schools....
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Balanced Meals
Fifth graders explore the importance of eating a balanced meal. They observe a video of people suffering from malnutrition, eating disorders, and obesity. They plan a balanced lunch menu for a week.
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Healthy Heart
Young scholars discover the power of their heart and provide an opportunity to talk about ways to maintain good health. In this early childhood heart lesson, students diagram a human heart, identify exercises that promote a healthy...
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Food, Meals, and Cooking
Students examine the eating habits of people in other countries and learn new vocabulary. They also practice using nouns and the passive voice.
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You Are What You Eat (Middle School)
Third graders determine what their ideal weights should be and how many calories should be consumed daily to obtain the ideal weight and/or maintain it. They research and prepare 20 cards regarding nutritional needs, obesity, and health...
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Analyzing Health
Third graders analyze their health. In this analysis lesson plan, 3rd graders rate their health on a 1-10 scale. They then tally the scores from the class and create a data chart. Then they answer true and false questions based on...
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Nutrition
Fourth graders engage in an original unit about nutrition and record daily intake of food in order to help create a healthy eating plan. They practice making practical food choices for optimum health and then investigate how to maintain...
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Fit To Fat Family
Learners become a TV production team whose mission it is to turn the fittest family in the UK into the unhealthiness one. Students illustrate the importance of exercise. Learners understand what bad habits such as smoking and drinking do...
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Individual and Environmental Factors Affecting Food Systems and Choices
Learners study the environmental factors that affect food systems and choices. In this food systems and health lesson, students study global and national information about obesity. Learners study photos and captions about the topic....
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Reading Food Labels
Young nutritionists plan nutritional meals by using the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid. Before constructing their meal plans, they take a close look a food labels and learn how to decipher them. In today's world of obese and unfit children,...
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The Food Pyramid and it's importance
Tenth graders demonstrate an understanding of the food groups by categorizing foods in the proper area. Given the six food groups in the food pyramid each student is given twenty pictures of foods and asked to place them under the...
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Lunch Choices, The Happy Game
This interactive PowerPoint covers 5 decisions to be made by the audience about their lunchbox and meal choices. The teacher advances the slide and reveals the answer with cartoon 'happy or 'yuck' faces. Reasons are given for both the...
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Movement concepts
Young scholars recognize the connection between food labels and exercise. For this health lesson, students understand how many times they need to dribble to work off a snack. Young scholars answer questions about the exercise.
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Yaba "Data" Cereal
Fifth graders create and modify a database using information from cereal labels.
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Health In Progress - Processed Foods
Middle schoolers compare and contrast processed foods to unprocessed foods. After exploring the differences, they research the health factors, benefits and concerns in both types of food. Discussions include fats, sweeteners, fiber,...
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Idioms Quiz: Food 2
In this online idiom quiz worksheet, students analyze the idiom examples within the sentence and select the correct answer for the meaning of the idioms to complete the 10 exercises.
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Advanced Algebra: Do You Feel Lucky?
Students explore the realm of mathematical probability while playing a game of chance. after constructing paper rockets, they fire it enough times to determine the probabilities of the rocket traveling past a marked distance and of it...