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Stone Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Sharing and cooperation are difficult skills for kindergartners to grasp. Using the story Stone Soup and a series of activities, kids learn about the benefits of working together, categorizing and comparing items, and eating...
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Litter From Lunchtime

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners explore environmental care by participating in a litter identification activity. In this food trash lesson, students discuss the destruction litter causes in our environment and ways we can avoid littering ourselves. Learners...
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Where We Buy Food

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how to buy food by going to the store. They use pictures of farming and different types of food to engage in the lesson. It includes key vocabulary that puppets use while telling a story to the students. They...
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Explore Zone

For Students 5th - 8th
In this food chain worksheet, students go outside to observe a small patch of grassy are. They list as many living and non-living things they can see then complete 5 short answer questions about their list.
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Nuts

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this health worksheet, students complete a word search to find the names of eighteen nuts. Nut names range from acorn to beech to walnut.
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Nutrition/Consumerism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the consumer health aspects of nutrition using food package labels.
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I Am A Word: Words as Names

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners explore nouns. For this grammar lesson, students read the book If You Give a Pig a Pancake and identify the nouns in the text. Learners classify the nouns under the categories of a person, place, or thing.
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Shopping: In a Cafe

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore English by participating in a role-playing activity. In this food ordering instructional activity, students utilize new vocabulary terms to conduct short dialogues with fictitious servers in a Cafe role-play activity....
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Vegetable Soup: A Reverse Recipe

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students cook up a healthy soup. In this early childhood food and cooking lesson, students gain knowledge about healthy diets, identify a variety of fruits and vegetable, and identify the connection between food served in the home and...
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Italian Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore Italian culture and food. They repeat phrases in Italian, watch a short video excerpt on Italian pasta, and repeat pasta names in Italian with a partner.
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All About Chocolate

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students list chocolate items, research the internet, and more to learn about chocolate. For this chocolate lesson plan, students also read books about the cocoa beans.
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The Breakfast Table

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary interactive worksheet, students type the eight names of the utensils displayed in the illustration and complete an eight word word scramble.
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...If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the concept of and reasons for immigration. They report on an immigrant group that moved to Illinois since 1700.
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Exploring the Food and Dining Patterns of Cameroon: Classification Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice using new vocabulary on the dining practices of Cameroon. Using classification techniques, they put words into different categories. As a class, they review and discuss the answers.
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Ruby Tuesday Word Search Puzzle

For Students 5th - 6th
In this diet learning exercise, students examine the names of 12 menu items found in the restaurant Ruby Tuesday. Students find the names in the word search.
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ESL: Categories

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL worksheet, students read names of items, then select whether the item category is food, clothes, parts of the body or "the office." 
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Spice Up Your Life

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify major spices found in the world. They link spices with countries they are grown in and the uses for these valuable items.
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Twinkies

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Brian was devastated when Hostess® filed for bankruptcy, and he was also fearful that his favorite snack treat would be lost forever. The snack food was in danger of being lost, your class won't be lost when using Twinkies® as the...
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Amazing Animals

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars, in beginning and advanced beginning ESL levels, use English in an animal lesson.
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ESOL Consumer Education

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss the importance of reading and understanding price tags, labels and expiration dates. They Compare/contrast the significance and practice of reading food labels, expiration dates and prices of food items in students'...
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Supermarket Science: The King Sooper Lab

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read product labels, compare fat, sodium, and sugar contents of various food items. They work with a partner and often employ the assistance of the deli and bakery managers in a supermarket.
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Winter Holiday Activities Extravaganza

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students define culture and explore elements that are part of the custom or culture of a place.  In this holiday lesson, students identify the cultures they participate in.  Students identify the differences in people's...
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Spring Lesson Unit on Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read about Peter Rabbit. In this lesson plan, about reading and comprehension, students listen to the story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter. Students answer questions about the story to determine comprehension....
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Phonics Activities for Aa and Ii

For Teachers K
Students participate in a number of activities to study the letters A and I. They use food items such as apples and cereal as manipulatives for the activities.