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Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others Lesson PlanMaking Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others Lesson Plan
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Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others

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Students use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid lesson, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups.   Students participate in cross curricular activities to become familiar with the information in the food pyramid.

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healthy eating, the usda

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food pyramid activities, healthy eating, usda, health
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3rd - 5th
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Health
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