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Graphs
Students listen to the book, TOPS AND BOTTOMS looking at different vegetables from the story that they have tried in class that week.
They then focus their attention on a graph called, "What is Your Favorite Vegetable?". They place a...
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A Big Book About Us
Students work on fine-motor, creative-thinking and language skills as they share special photos and stories about their families with their classmates. Students create individual pages for a class book that will include drawings and photos.
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Extra Information in Word Problems
Students recognize additional information in word problems. For this problem solving lesson, students focus on four questions to assist them in determining extraneous information in word problems.
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Working Worms
Students study earthworms and their role in creating healthy soil for healthy food. In this earthworms and soil lesson, students complete an jug experiment to learn about the role of earthworms and healthy soil. Students read and discuss...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Count Your Veggies
A counting book with a different type of vegetable on each page. Includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Fruit and Veggies Matter
Learners explore fruits and vegetables. The activity includes a questionnaire that asks an individual's age, sex, and level of physical activity to determine the fruits and vegetables needed in an individual's diet. The resource consists...
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Produce for Better Health Foundation: Food Champs: Fruit and Veggie Champs
Advice, recipes, tips, nutrition information, games, and activities to help kids learn why it's so important to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Veggie Snap! Modifying Bending Stresses in a Flexible Rod
Examples of the effect of bending stresses on flexible rods could include a large tree bending over to the ground, or a fishing pole bending till it snaps. Scientists actually study this phenomenon and discover ways to prevent breakage,...
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Classroom Connections: Wallace & Gromit Veggie Power
This downloadable teaching resource for Grades 2-3 has lessons on healthy eating designed to encourage children to eat more vegetables. Learners explore their own and others' food preferences and learn about food groups.
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting: Ed Said
Meet Ed Said, a nine-year-old purple-haired hard-core fruit-and-veggie rapper. Learn nutrition facts from Ed by watching and playing his videos and songs. Includes many print-and-color activities about eating healthy fruit- and...
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Dltk's Bible Activities
You'll find Bible coloring pages, crafts, lesson plans, poems, songs, games, recipes, and bulletin board ideas at this fabulous site! Although most of these activities are designed for K-3 students, they could easily be adapted for use...
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Veggies
Learn more about vegetables when you explore this Cyber Hunt Crossword puzzle. Students will have an opportunity to increase their knowledge of these healthy snacks while surfing the Internet for answers to the puzzle.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Which Hot Dog Cools Faster?
Different types of hot dogs will cool at different rates after they have been cooked. This activity takes the first steps in investigating this phenomenon by measuring the rate that a warmed hot dog cools. Students can compare the...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Body and Mind: Cool Treats, You Can Have It All
Eat fruits and vegetables every day. This website will help you do just that. Learn simple recipes for healthy dips, salads, smoothies, desserts, and veggie dishes, all of which are packed with the vitamins you need to stay healthy.
US Department of Agriculture
Usda: Tips to Help You Make Wise Protein Food Choices
Make wise choices when eating from the protein group. This website advises you to eat lean cuts of beef, trim visible fat off of meat and poultry, eat fish "rich in omega-3 fatty acids," and read food labels for nutritional information.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shopping for Salad
[Free Registration/Login Required] In an integrated Health/Wellness lesson, students review the body's need for 3 Veggies while participating in a Salad Shop at school where kids make their own salads. Money, edible plant parts and ABC...
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Vegetarian Choices in the Protein Food Group
Here a few tips to help vegetarians get enough protein by eating beans, nuts, and soy products from the meat group. Includes a link to a page on how vegetarians can eat from the food pyramid and get the nutrients they need to stay healthy.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Watermelon Watch Your Garden Grow
Learn about delicious watermelon! Growing, varieties, nutrition, recipes, and photos are allincluded.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Vegetables
At this site from the University of Massachusetts you can read about vegetables, which are high in nutritional value but low in fat. After reading this brief article, take a quiz to test your knowledge of the vegetable food group.