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K
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2
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the USDA Food Guidelines and motivate the students to seek good nutrition....
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Unit: Helping Others to Feed Themselves
Unit: Our Playful Community
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K
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This lesson will allow students to explore the family or household unit, of which they are an essential member, as a community. As a class, they will create a Family Album using all of the family pictures brought in by the students. This will allow them to see the number of people the class...
Unit: My Healthy Plate
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3
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Students learn to properly "dress" their plate with foods from each of the food groups. Students will also compare the foods in the Kids' Food Basket Sack Supper to the food groups on My Plate. Students volunteer their time to prepare or pack meals for a local food distribution charity. ...
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Unit: Souperservice Kids
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K
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In this lesson, the students will learn about the structure of the food pyramid. They will study which foods are healthy and which foods should be eaten in small amounts. Through reading and a variety of multidisciplinary centers, the students will recognize that they have to make choices about...
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
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6
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8
Students examine elements of healthy living, including a balanced diet and regular physical activity.
Unit: Pet Care and Safety
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K
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This lesson is based on key terms and vocabulary dealing with animal welfare and animal care. Concepts will be defined and discussed in a whole group setting. Learners will compare their own needs to a pet's needs....
Unit: Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the Globe (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students define food insecurity and scarcity of resources. They use problem-solving to share a scarce resource. Students work in groups to discuss how to be good caretakers of scare resources, such as food, water, and fuel. Then they discuss how these choices affect global issues....
Unit: Our Land
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K
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The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the folksinger, Woody Guthrie, and his legendary song This Land Is Your Land.
Unit: Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the Globe (K-2)
Grades:
K
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2
This lesson includes a simulation that helps children understand the number of people in the world who are food insecure. The simulation generates empathy for the injustice of the unequal distribution of food. They learn that food is unequally distributed and discuss how they feel about taking...
Unit: Pilgrim's Progress
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This lesson introduces the students to the definition of philanthropy and tells how the Native Americans were philanthropic toward the Pilgrims. Students carry out their own “random acts of kindness.”