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Exploring Nutrition Using The Food Pyramid Lesson Plan

Exploring Nutrition Using The Food Pyramid Lesson Plan

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Exploring Nutrition Using The Food Pyramid

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Learners of all ages study nutrition by designing their own food guide pyramids using pictures from Pics4Learning. They analyze their food consumption over the course of a typical day in respect to the USDA's recommended serving sizes. An important lesson given today's "chubby" society.

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the food pyramid, food, healthy eating

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food pyramid, Nutrition, healthy diet, english language arts

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Grade

1st - 10th

Subjects

English Language Arts

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Duration

4 days

Instructional Strategy

Project-Based Learning

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