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How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?
Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions. In this personal health lesson, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations. Students complete the "Rate That...
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Food Guide Pyramid
Students develop an understanding of the Food Guide Pyramid by creating sample meals and examining whether there is a relationship between how foods are grown and where they fall in the Food Guide Pyramid. They also complete a scavenger...
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Selling Obesity
Learners examine health issues that are associated with our fast food culture, and the advertising of it. They begin with a snack-food survey to assess their own eating habits. Pupils are encouraged to think critically throughout the...
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Understanding My Pyramid
Students examine the food pyramid and construct a healthy meal. In this food pyramid lesson, students examine the new food pyramid that includes fats and oils, and is arranged with brightly colored triangles. They use grocery store adds...
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Let the Pyramid Be Your Guide
Students chart foods on the food guide pyramid and design nutritional food plans that include all the food groups.
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Picture Perfect Pyramid
Students investigate the concept of the food pyramid. The lesson plan includes background information for the teacher to lecture students about the food pyramid. They construct a model of the pyramid using cereal boxes. The projects...
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Grocery Store
Students explore food and grocery stores. In this lesson on foods, students are introduced to the food pyramid and healthy eating through a variety of center activities. Students have to opportunity to role-play working at a grocery store.
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Food Pyramid
First graders examine the different levels of the food pyramid and plan a healthy meal. They discuss the food pyramid and read about nutrition using a variety of resources. Using Kidspiration computer software, they plan a...
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Sweet-Talkers
Learners investigate what is being sold to them. In this media awareness instructional activity, students visit selected websites to take a closer look at advertising marketed at them. Learners discuss the implications of marketing...
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Advertising's Hidden Messages
Students explore the hidden messages in advertisements. In this business lesson, students discuss the role that advertisements play in our lives. Students locate advertisements that use various advertising techniques. Students create an...
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ESOL: Health and Nutrition
Students explore the four food groups and how they contribute to one's health. They identify the four food groups and create a poster of the four food groups with pictures. They present their posters to the class and practice answering...
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NickNews: Winners and Losers
Students view the excerpt from NickNews entitled, "Winners and Losers." In groups, they categorize a variety of words and images relating to weight, healthy eating, and healthy lifestyle. They discuss adopting positive eating habits,...
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The Dragon's Tail
Second graders read a story about Little D, a baby dragon, and how he interacts with the five food groups. They color, chant, pantomime, and discuss food groups after reading the story. They also consider causes and effects as they make...
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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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Eat Right!
Students use magazines and other food pictures to arrange healthy meals onto construction paper.
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Eat Right!
Students discuss the food pyramid. They create healthy meals using the food pyramid.
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Software Lesson Plan for FoodWorks
Students complete analysis of foods consumed in three days by using FoodWorks software program, identify factors that influence food intake, examine factors that influence their own eating behaviors, evaluate their current eating habits,...
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Quench That Thirst
Students examine the sugar and calorie content of different beverages. In this adult health lesson plan, students analyze how advertising can be very misleading. They determine the correct amount of juice or beverage they should take per...
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Food Shopping Tips
Twelfth graders explore different ways of shopping to try to save money. In this economics lesson plan, 12th graders participate in a game that explains various shopping tips. Students generate other shopping tips as a group to share...
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Nutrition and Health and School Gardening
Students examine how healthy eating contributes to a healthy body and life style. They read nutritional labels on food items. They use the Five Foods Pyramid to evaluate their own eating habits. They plan, design, and create a school...
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Quests for Better Health
High schoolers use the Internet to investigate a health quest that is assigned to them. In this investigative lesson students research insights about the human body, evaluate and apply the information to create a chart, puzzle or design...
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Planning An Escape Plan
Students participate in a mock fire escape plan in this lesson. They identify the reasons for remaining calm, closing doors, ad testing doors between rooms and the main exits. They also watch a experiment that demonstrates what fire...
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Good Snack,Smart Snack
Second graders pretend to be company managers who design and advertise healthy snacks to sell.
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World Hunger
Students discover the benefits of balanced nutrition. In this service learning lesson, students read Beatrice's Goat and create a poster featuring the Heifer International Project.