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Balanced Meals
Balancing Act
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner with Gregory
Counting Calories: Creating Word Problems about Cereal Nutrition
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In this lesson, students will evaluate and discuss the health benefits of breakfast foods. They work in pairs to help create and solve word problems using cereal nutrition data. For homework, students are expected to solve additional problems formulated in class and write short essays commenting on what they have learned.
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Eat a Wide Variety of Foods
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This lesson addresses the food groups and eating a variety of healthy foods. A detailed and well outlined lesson regarding food groups and how important it is for students to eat a variety of foods. Extremely comprehensive teacher friendly.
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Eat Plenty of Fruits Vegetables and Grains
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Students will be able to realize the large variety of fruit, vegetable, and grain foods from which to choose.
Students will be able to identify the number of recommended servings for the Fruit, Vegetable, and Grain Groups.
Students will understand how to increase their own consumption of fruits, vegetables, and grains.
Students will become familiar with and attempt to reach the 5 A Day goal of consuming at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
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Eating for Your Future
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In this lesson students will
Become familiar with the latest dietary guidelines from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Work in groups to find recipes that will help students meet the dietary guidelines.
Develop a class cookbook of favorite recipes.
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Eating for Your Future
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There are two mini-lessons that explore how the foods you eat now can help make your healthier or sicker in the long run and which diets provide the best chance for a long and healthy life, and concludes by emphasizing the need for dietary balance, variety, and moderation.
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Eating Over the Rainbow: Learning How Color is Considered in Choosing a Healthful Diet of Fruits and Vegetables
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In this lesson, students first examine their own diets, and then redesign the USDA's Food Pyramid to reflect nutrition experts' latest advice. Students examine the USDA's Food Pyramid; redesign the pyramid to reflect their typical diets. Learn about how nutrition experts are stressing the importance of a diet's variety of colorful fruits and vegetables by reading and discussing "The Color of Nutrition: Fruits and Vegetables." Research the different color categories of fruits and vegetables; identify recipes that feature these fruits and vegetables.
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Eating Patterns
Five a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
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The students will be able to understand which foods are healthy and identify the parts of the Food Guide Pyramid. Conclude that foods provide nutrients, which maintain and promote health.
Identify the serving sizes and number of daily servings needed from each food group of the Food Guide Pyramid
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Healthy Choices
Healthy Eating
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The purpose of this lesson is to have the students gain an understanding of good nutrition. The student will learn the five basic food groups and what each one consists of. The student will develop an understanding of why eating healthy is important. The students have background knowledge in healthy eating due to the exposure in previous health lessons.
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It's Sugar Time!
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In this lesson students learn that health depends upon many things, including heredity, lifestyle, personality traits, mental health, attitudes, and the envronment. The students will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.
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Junk Food Jungle
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This lesson familiarizes children with the nutritional value of foods advertised on television and in magazines. The lesson begins with a class discussion about different types of foods and where snack food fits into a healthy diet. Students then compare TV's version of a great meal to the kinds of foods that their mothers would recommend, and categorize the foods they enjoy according to whether or not they would be considered part of a healthy diet. In groups, students survey television and magazine food ads to determine what types of foods are promoted most often.
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Learn About the Meat Group
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Students identify foods in the Meat Group and learn that these foods build strong, healthy muscles.
Students will be able to:
Name at least three foods that belong to the Meat Group
State how foods in the Meat Group keep them healthy
State the function of strong muscles and the relationship between exercise and strong muscles
Classify Meat Group Food Cards according to personal criteria
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Lesson 2: Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss
Looking Back and Moving Forward
Make Friends with the Fruit Group
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In this lesson students learn which foods are in the Fruit Group and learn that these foods help their bodies heal cuts and bruises. They identify fruits they like to eat. Name at least three foods in the Fruit Group
State how Fruit Group foods help keep them healthy
Students name different types of plants on which fruits grow
Classify fruits according to personal criteria
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Meet the Milk Group
Mmmm, Mmmm ... and Good: Creating a Supermarket Proposal Based on Healthy Food Options
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In this lesson, students will consider their own diets and examine an op-ed article about organically produced foods. They then research alternatives to various foods for the creation of a supermarket and reflect on their own diets after keeping a food journal.
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Nutrition 2: Good Food, Good Health
Nutrition 3: Got Broccoli?
Nutritious Foods Keep Me Healthy
Planning for Success
Pyramid Power
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In this lesson, students use use pictures of foods to deepen their knowledge of set theory. They make sets of a given number, explore relationships between numbers, and write numbers that name how many elements are in a group. They make and record sets of one more and one less than a given number. They have the opportunity to apply their reasoning and communication skills in this lesson.
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Read That Label!
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Students will be knowledgeable and develop an awareness of the location and types of labels associated with being a health conscious individual.
Students will be aware of the propaganda techniques used in labels and packaging.
Students will become more aware of product distribution and the scientific methods and testing behind the products.
Students will read various labels and then construct labels.
Students will make an educated decision about the “best” food and best products to purchase.
Students will become familiar with reliable resources for obtaining correct information and becoming a good and health conscious consumer, how to make healthy purchases, and how to remain safe by reading and understanding the cautions on labels.
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Sizing Up Servings: Assessing Definitions of Recommended Food Portions
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In this lesson, students learn the definition of a suggested serving size and re-define their daily food intake in terms of these recommended amounts. Write a typical daily menu for a teenager; re-evaluate the menu to correspond with the government's food guide pyramid.
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Sorting Foods
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Students visit a Web site to play a game related to the food pyramid and sort foods using the categories of the food pyramid. They also create sets up to 10 and write numerals up to 10. This lesson makes a natural connection to the science of nutrition.Students will be able to: classify pictures of food according to given attributes identify the sections of the food pyramid
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The Five Food Groups
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In this lesson students identify factors that affect personal health and focusing in on good nutrition. They discuss foods in each food group and review how each food group keeps them healthy. Students will be able to:
Name all Five Food Groups in the Food Guide Pyramid
Identify factors that affect personal health
Name at least five foods in each food group
State one way each food group keeps them healthy
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The Food Guide Pyramid
The Food Pyramid
The Food Pyramid
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In this lesson students learn what an optimal, “balanced” diet is, and why it’s never been more true that “you are what you eat.” Students will.
• Identify the food categories used in the USDA food pyramid.
• Chart the foods eaten in a day and describe how well they adhere to the food pyramid in one day of eating.
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The Story of the Pyramid Cafe
Three Healthful Meals: A Practical Food-Guide-Pyramid Activity
V is for Variety
Weight Control
What is a Body-Building Lunch?
Winning Combinations
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