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Reading Food Labels

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students investigate the concept of phonemic awareness in order to help increase reading comprehension. The reading of food labels creates the context for the practice session. They pay particular attention to certain sounds that must be...
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Exploring the Food and Dining Patterns of Cameroon: Dining Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the cultural differences in the dining patterns of Cameroon and the United States. Identifying food items in their own lives, they explore differences within the United States. They brainstorm about what they already...
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Food: Text for Dictation

For Teachers 5th - 7th
 In this food text for dictation worksheet, students write a text concerning vocabulary that pertains to food.
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Dietary Guidelines Multimedia Presentation

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students create a powerpoint presentation highlighting the USDA Dietary Guidelines. They are create a ten slide presentation demonstrating their knowledge of the food pyramid. Students are provided with printable materials to aid in...
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Explorit's Confused Quiz!

For Students 6th - 7th
In this food history learning exercise, students complete a 5 question quiz about ancient and modern foods. Students unscramble the letters to make each answer. This is an on-line interactive quiz.
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Bunny Dreams

For Students K - 1st
In this different types of foods learning exercise, students view a bunny dreaming of fourteen different types of food. Students cover the food items with a small piece of paper that are not good for a bunny to eat.
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Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars examine how he world eats breakfast. In this food choices lesson, students work in groups to list breakfast foods and their ingredients and find goods and consumers on the list. The, young scholars use the Internet to...
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Class Survey 1--Food and Drink

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ESL class survey worksheet, students complete a survey of their classmates to discover items that they eat and drink.
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How much are they?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing questions worksheet, students practice writing questions about how much food prices are based on the food picture they are shown. Students write 8 questions.
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Multiple Choice Questions

For Students 5th - 8th
In this food learning exercise, students answer multiple choice questions on food such as cabbage, meat, and farming. Students complete 6 questions.
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Bell Curve

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore averages by completing a data analysis activity. In this bell curve lesson, students measure different food items and plot their measurements on a X and Y axis. Students create bell curves around the average weight or...
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Super Star Nutrition for Kids

For Students 3rd
In this nutrition worksheet, 3rd graders study food labels and label fruits and vegetables.  Students respond to 2 short answer questions and complete 26 fill in the blank questions writing the name of a fruit or vegetable that...
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars read the story Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and complete discussions questions as they read the story. For this comprehension lesson plan, students also write stories about a good day,...
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Bias Sampling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore statistics by conducting a scientific study. In this data analysis lesson, students conduct a class poll about popular foods of their classmates. Young scholars complete a worksheet and discuss how bias opinions...
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Exploring the Food and Dining Patterns of Cameroon: Classification Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice using new vocabulary on the dining practices of Cameroon. Using classification techniques, they put words into different categories. As a class, they review and discuss the answers.
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Foods for Better Health

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students define biotechnology and discuss the economic impact of biotechnology. They also describe what a 1015 onion and a slow-softening tomato are and how they are produced. They examine the safety of genetically-engineered or altered...
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Hunger in the World

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Background information is a great tool for any teacher. This resource provides background information on nutrition and world hunger, as well as ten different activity options to help learners understand this global issue. Each activity...
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Farming: It's a Fact

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Understanding where our food and textiles come from is key to understanding business, economics, and the importance of modern agriculture. Learners play a game, read text to determine farm fact from opinion, and itemize a grocery receipt...
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ABC Café Alphabet Matching Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Glue the first two pages provided here to a folder of piece of card stock to create a private table at the ABC Café. Included in the materials are 26 food items that each start with a different letter of the alphabet, every letter of the...
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California Here We Come!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
A highly relevant and great cross-curricular project! In teams, your class will plot a course from the East Coast to Sacramento, California passing through all of the state capital cities along the way. As part of the journey, teams...
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Beat a Leaf

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A simple, yet effective classroom activity is described in this resource on leaves and how they grow. The activity should lead pupils to discover how plants make their own food and what they need to survive. In the activity, they create...
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Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Are you looking for a instructional activity on eggs for your young farmers? This one could be for you! Learners discover where eggs come from. They see the whole process of an egg coming from a hen, and ending up on their breakfast...
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Potatoes and Potato Stamps

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is an informative and engaging lesson potatoes for your young farmers! In it, learners discover how potatoes are grown, where they come from, and they list foods made from potatoes. They do a really fun art project with potoatoes as...
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Tomatoes and Potatoes

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Youngsters take a look at some of the foods made of tomatoes and pumpkins, and they see that potatoes grow underground. Pupils acquire new words associated with these vegetables, and write simple sentences about tomatoes and potatoes....