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Book Box

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a bookmark, book cover and book review for a book they read. In this nutrition meets literacy lesson, students read a book about food and complete creative projects based upon the book. Some of the ideas included in this...
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Talking about Food, Expressing Likes and Dislikes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore foods.  In this nutrition instructional activity, students chorally respond to questions about a kitchen PowerPoint, complete a Venn diagram about breakfast and lunch foods, and play a food Bingo game.
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Economics

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read a poem about rice and identify its importance around the world. In this rice lesson, 4th graders read about the role of rice in various nutritional sectors around the world. Students complete two word problems about...
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The Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 5th
Students determine that humans need food to function properly. In this nutrition lesson plan, students discuss the food categories used in the food pyramid by charting the foods eaten in one day.
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Agriculture and Food

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students discuss the foods they eat and why they eat them. In this nutrition lesson, students determine what foods people might eat in Cyprus and create a traditional meal tasting five traditional recipes of Cyprus set up like...
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students list and explain the five food groups and the recommended serving amounts.  In this food pyramid lesson, students discuss the food pyramid and journal about their reaction to it.  Students complete a building block...
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Food Poems and Base Words

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify base words to decipher new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, students complete a graphic organizer while reading about food and nutrition. Students discuss simple and complex endings when using words. 
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Homemade Ice Cream

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate nutrition by creating ice cream in class. In this cooking lesson, students define the ingredients in ice cream and discuss how they form together to create a delicious treat. Students utilize salt, ice, milk and...
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Rainbow milk

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
This activity explores the sense of sight, nutritional needs, and the importance of milk and dairy in our diet. Students discuss color mixing, surface tension and rainbow milk. Students actively mix three colors of food coloring with...
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Eat A Rainbow!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. For this nutrition lesson, students identify and sort different fruits and vegetables by colors. Students list reasons why eating fruits and vegetables are important...
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Our Choices Matter: What You Eat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will record their food choices for one week, noting calories, protein and vitamin content of foods using a given USDA website. Students will discuss whole class the important of proper nutrition and its role, and what happens...
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Frenzied Food: Fantastic Fuel?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students infer the causes of obesity. In this health science lesson, students brainstorm ways improve to their diet. They write personalized journals with goals on how to live a healthy lifestyle.
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Form, Rhythm, and Melodic Motives: Fiber

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine basic song form and 4/4 meter. They sing a song about diet and nutrition while identifying examining the rhythm of the song. They discuss why fruit and fiber are important to health.
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What's the Shape of Your Diet?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover a healthy diet. In this healthy diet lesson, 4th graders compare their typical diet with the recommendations of MyPyramid for Kids.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils participate in activities associated with the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". They practice using new vocabulary and the days of the week. They create a book about what they ate on the different days of the week and how the...
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Microwave Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn the basic principles of microwave cooking and prepare a dessert in the microwave using correct procedures.
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Kitchen Introduction Unit Test

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students complete a test demonstrating their knowledge of kitchen safety, sanitation, equipment, measuring, cooking terms, abbreviations, substitutions, equivalents, reading and parts of a recipe, and the microwave oven.
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Dietary Guidelines/Food Pyramid Test

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners review Dietary Guidelines and the Food Guide Pyramid. They take a quiz listing recommended dietary guidelines and explain their function and implementation.
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Dietary Guidelines 2000

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research dietary guidelines and create a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation that reviews the dietary guidelines to present to their class or an elementary class.
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Food Intake and Physical Activity

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders graph their estimations of caloric intake and caloric expenditures.
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From Moo to You

For Teachers K
Students listen to a story about cows and identify foods made from milk. They have a tasting party and practice a finger play called "Five Mugs of Milk."
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Sometimes and All the Time Foods

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize a wide variety of fruit and have a greater understanding about the importance of fruit in their diet, and determine that some fruits' skins are edible and others are not.
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Household Pests

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in an experiment to show how germs are spread, by food, fingers and feces. They conduct a bacteria count using a colony counter.
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Rooftop Sandwich

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create books showing the main ingredients of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They get creative and see what other ingredients they may like to add to the original sandwich. A book is made and their sandwich is sent home....

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