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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
1
2
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: Pet Care and Safety
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K
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2
Explore animal welfare through literature and analysis of wants and needs of people and pets.
Unit: Healthy Food Choices
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K
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Students learn about food choices as needs or wants. They read a book and discuss healthy choices. They discuss why is not always good to have everything you want. They discuss the foods we need to have healthy bodies and minds. Students create healthy food choice plates and share them to...
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Unit: My Healthy Plate
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Grades:
3
4
5
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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Grades:
K
1
2
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 (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students conduct and evaluate their service project, then celebrate their success. After the service project, invite guests, volunteers, community members, and other students to celebrate with the class.
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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Grades:
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
1
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...