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Nutrition Vocabulary Word Searches
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.
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Balanced Diet
Second graders investigate the concept of a balanced diet and how the food pyramid is organized. They conduct research using the links included in the instructional activity. They differentiate the parts of the pyramid while looking at...
Beacon Learning Center
Catching a Balanced Diet
First graders explore the importance of balanced meals. They play a fishing game to help them select foods to make up a balanced meal.
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Who Cares for the Land?
A very thorough lesson plan focuses on what plants need to grow and stay healthy. There are excellent reading activities and worksheets included in this fine plan. A terrific way to introduce a unit on plants and their needs.
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They Don't Just Eat Grass
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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Graphing a Healthy Lifestyle
Fifth graders record the amount of time they spend sleeping, attending school, watching T.V., exercising and doing homework. At the end of the week they graph all of their information and discuss how sleep impacts their learning....
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Food and the Digestive System
Young scholars investigate the digestive system. For this human biology lesson, students read an article about the digestive system and go onto a suggested website to review what they have learned. Young scholars are asked questions as...
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Nutrients by the Numbers
Students read and discuss an article on the amount of sugar in various food products. They compare the nutritional values of food products, calculate their daily intake of nutrients, analyze serving sizes, and compare/contrast their own...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Silly Stories: Challenge Activities (Theme 1)
This packet, the first in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on silly stories, contains enrichment activities for learners who have mastered the basic concepts of the lessons.
Choose My Plate
MyPlate Word Scramble
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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School Lunch: Grades 6-8
School lunches are the focus of two learning activities. Activity one challenges small groups to create a lunch menu for an imaginary cafe. Activity two sheds light on one's afternoon eating habits. Asking scholars to record what they...
Curated OER
Vitamin D and Me
Students create a graphic organizer showing the importance of Vitamin D intake. In this Vitamin D instructional activity, Students list problems with Vitamin D deficiency and create poster boards in small groups. Individually, students...
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Heart Disease Prevention
Fourth graders get into groups and brainstorm ways to obtain physical activity and different healthy foods to eat. They then develop and write and individual plan for healthy living and commit to enforcing their plan for a minimum of one...
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Did You Eat That! - Food Graph
In this health and diet instructional activity, students ask ten of their friends what their favorite vegetables are. Then they tally their votes and shade them in on the graph provided.
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Weekly Meal Sheet
In this food diary learning exercise, students record the foods they eat from each of 5 groups on a chart that has spaces for each day of the week.
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Healthy Eating
Students, in groups, create a nutritious menu, using information gathered from newspapers and Palm software. They decorate paper plates with pictures of foods to represent nutritional meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Helping People Who Are Hungry
Students discuss the concept of hunger. In this hunger lesson, students discuss the book, The Story of Stone Soup. Student then brainstorm a possible service project ideas and create plans to carry out their service project.
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Happy Halloween!
The treat part of trick or treat doesn't have to be unhealthy! Learners read four scenarios about traditional Halloween treats and decide which they would choose based on the phe (phenylalanine) values of each.
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Coming Soon: Sodas with Vitamins
Students react to a series of statements about sodas, then read a news article about the addition of vitamins to sodas to increase sales. In this nutrition and current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article...
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An Inside Look at Apples
First graders examine and identify parts of an apple. For this biology lesson, 1st graders cut an apple in half and locate all the parts, use the apple halves as stamps, and create a bar graph displaying which apple types the...
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Burger King Investigation
Students study data on the nutritional value of Burger King meals in order to discover its nutritional value and also to compare the meals, using mathematical computation, to the recommended daily diet. In this data handling...
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Cooking Your Favorite Meal - Vocabulary and Discussion Lesson for English Students of All Ages
Here is a great idea that incorporates cooking, recipe reading, content specific vocabulary, and culture. The class defines cooking related vocabulary, discusses the food they eat, then develop a recipe of their own. This is a great...
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Early Childhood Nutrition
Students complete activities that focus on food and nutrition. In this food lesson plan, students sort foods into healthy and not healthy, categorize them into ground and tree sorts, draw their favorite foods, make abc books of food, and...
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Breakfast of Champions
Second graders classify foods using the food pyramid and write about the foods they eat. They distinguish between healthy and junk food and make healthy choices for their meals. They listen to the story "No Peas for Nellie" and discuss...
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