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Nutrition Unit Grade 3-5
Educate your students on what their favorite fast foods contain!
Submitted by: Laura Candler
Looking at Food Adversiting Grade Primary & Intermediate
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which advertising can affect their food choices. Working from television and magazine ads, students discuss the techniques used by advertisers to engage kids with products.
Balanced Meals Grades 1-2
As a way to set the stage, the teacher will talk to the students about food. He or she will then ask the students to raise their hands and name their favorite foods. Then he or she will ask them to raise their hands if they like to eat vegetables.
Breakfast Grade K
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner with GregoryGrades K-2
Students will recognize the importance of nutritious meals through reinforcement class activities.
Daily Nutrition Log Grade 3-5
This is a large PDF file. Help your students analyze their daily food consumption. Use the directions at this URL: http://home.att.net/~teaching/refbook.htm#Daily Nutrition Log and Evalutaion
Eat Right! Grade 3-5
This is a great lesson to use during health, or during the study of the human body. Students use technology and their prior knowledge to creat a food pyramid.
Evaluate Your Eating Habits Grade 5
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.
Fast Food Anaylsis Grade 3-5
This is a PDF file. This is a great lesson to open student's eyes to what they are eating on the go! Follow directions at this URL: http://home.att.net/~teaching/refbook.htm#Fast Food Analysis
Fit for Life Grade 4
This lesson will make students more aware of the importance of a wellness lifestyle. It will also make them aware of they things the can do to develop a wellness lifestyle.
Food Group Craze Grades K-12
Students will learn or reinforce prior learning of the food groups within the food guide pryamid.
Food Groups: Food Pyramid Grades 3-5
In this activity, students learn about the five food groups and how to use the food pyramid as their guide.
Food Guide Pyramid Grade Various
Guide to Daily Food Choices FoodZone Nutritional lesson and experiments.
Food Pyramid Showdown Grade 3-5
This is a PDF file to be used in the teaching of the Food Pyramid. Follow the "Finding Fractions Showdown" at the following URL: http://home.att.net/~teaching/refbook.htm#Finding Fractions Showdown
Fun with Food: The Food Pyramid Grades 3-4
The student will learn about the Food pyramid and a well balanced diet through interactive and group activities. The lesson will be taught from an ESL perspective.
Good and Healthy Snacks Grade K
Children will be able to identify good snacks that are healthy and be able to sing rap which reinforces the 5 serving of fruits & vegetables a day.
Gregory, The Terrible Eater Grades 3-4
The purpose of this activity is for the students to review and demonstrate their understanding of the need for balanced meals and an understanding of the food sources for proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins.
Health Database Grades 2-5
Students will focus on the following objectives: classifying foods from the school lunch menus into the correct food groups, creating a database file, and determining if the school lunch menu offers a balanced meal.
Healthy Eating Grades K-3
To make students aware of ways newspapers can teach about nutrition and good health .
Healthy Island Grades 3-5
Students will integrate nutrition information (e.g. the Food Pyramid) with upper body strengthening physical activities.
Junk Food Jungle Grade 4-6
This lesson will familiarize children with the nutritional value of foods advertised on television and in magazines.
Is it Fruit? Grades 2-4
This lesson is best used as part of a nutrition unit, specifically for a discussion related to the fruit group. In this activity, students learn that 100% means the "whole thing." If a fruit juice is not 100% juice, then it is not a fruit -- it is an "extra" food. It is helpful if students have had prior experience with nutrition labels. Prior knowledge about the "extras" group would also be helpful for this lesson.
Let's Read! Lunch Grades K-2
Children will be able to identify fruits and vegetables they like. Older children will know that eating fruits and vegetables will help them grow to be healthy.
Nutrition - Food Pyramid Book and Game Grade 2-6
Today we are going to learn about the Food Pyramid, and learn which foods keep our bodies healthy.
Nutrition Lesson Plan Grades 2-3
Students will be able to list the better food choices for a healthy body. Students will then be able to make a menu for a fictitious restaurant that contains good food choices from each of the areas of the Food Pyramid.
Nutritious And Delicious Grades 3-4
Nutrition is the key to feeling good about yourself. This lesson will allow students to study the five food groups and to learn about delicious, healthy foods. At the end of this lesson we will talk about different foods that are healthy. The last day of the lesson we will have a fun day and sample nutritious and delicious foods.
Planning a Healthy Menu Using the Food Pyramid Grades 3-8
The students will understand how the food pyramid can help to plan healthy meals.
Pyramid Relay Grade 2
This lesson familiarizes students with the food pyramid. It will get the students involved with deciding which food group a particular food item falls into and why.
Saint Patrick's Day Snack Grade 1
The students have been studying Nutrition. We have studied the five food groups. This particular activity was designed to help the students plan a well balanced snack around St. Patrick's Day. This means nearly everything they eat has to be green.
Salad Party Grades 3-4
The purpose of this activity is to provide a positive experience with "veggies" while practicing basic skills of observation, classification, and cooperation. It also provides a model for healthy eating.
Spudnicks--A Rice-Crispy and Marshmallow Snack! Grades 4-8
A lot of times when a child gets home from school they're hungry, but either no one is around to get them something to eat, or they're too busy to make something really yummy. Children need to know how to make their own snack. This lesson provides easy steps for a child to follow, on how to make a delicious snack called spudnicks. This lesson will also provide teachers with an idea on how to teach it to the class.
Using an Egg Hunt to Teach about Nutrition Grades K-2
Unhealthy foods are frequently advertised to children. Parents and teachers desire to encourage children to choose healthy alternatives to snack foods containing high sugar and fat content. Students in early elementary grades can learn about nutrition through story-telling, songs, and a familiar hunting game.
Vegetables: Nutritious Food Sources Grades 2-3
The activity may be used separately or in connection with a health unit on nutrition or food, for students in grades two or three.
Well Rounded Diet Grade 4
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.
What's Nutrition Grade K
The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.
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Books
Brown Bag Success: Making Healthy Lunches Your Kids Won't Trade
by Sandra K. Nissenberg
Burp! the Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Eating: The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Eating (Mysterious You)
by Diane Swanson
The Dairy Group (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
Drinking Water (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
Eat Carbohydrates That Grow (Why Should I)
by Cindy Devine Dalton
Eat Healthy, Feel Great
by William Sears
Eat Power Proteins (Why Should I)
by Cindy Devine Dalton
Eating Right (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day
by Loreen Leedy
Fats, Oils, and Sweets (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
Food Fun: Play Board With Sounds! (Look, Listen and Learn)
by Tim Huhn
The Food Pyramid (True Books, Food & Nutrition)
by Joan Kalbacken
The Food Pyramid (What Should I Eat)
by Amanda Rondeau
Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch
by Bill Haduch
The Fruit Group (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
Fruits and Vegetables / Frutas y vegetales
by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Good Enough to Eat
By Lizzy Rockwell
The Grain Group (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
The Healthy Body Cookbook: Over 50 Fun Activities and Delicious Recipes for Kids
by Joan D'Amico
Healthy Meals for Hurried Lives (Compact Guide to Fitness & Health)
How to Teach Nutrition to Kids
by Connie L. Evers
Janice Vancleave's Food and Nutrition for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun (Science for Every Kid Series)
by Janice Pratt Vancleave
Kid's Choice Cookbook (U.S.)
by Colleen Bartley
Love My Vitamins (Why Should I)
by Cindy Devine Dalton
The Meat and Protein Group (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
Milk Is Magnificent (What Should I Eat)
by Amanda Rondeau
The OrganWise Guys : Basic Training for Better Health
by Michelle A. Lombardo
Pyramid Pal - Adventures in Eating
by Susan Dawson
Staying Healthy: Eating Right (The Library of Healthy Living)
by Alice B. McGinty
The Vegetable Group (The Food Guide Pyramid)
by Helen Frost
What Happens to a Hamburger (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science, 2)
by Paul Showers
Why Do People Eat? (Usborne Starting Point Science)
by Kate Needham
