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Nutrients to Get More Of (Grades 6-8)

  • Lesson
  • Grades 6 – 8

Students will plan a healthy meal – breakfast – using the Percent Daily Value (%DV), and will use the Nutrition Facts label to evaluate and compare foods as they plan their meals.

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Hunger and Malnutrition (Grades 6-8)

  • Lesson
  • Grades 6 – 8

Students will learn about the importance of eating a variety of foods in order to get all the nutrients needed to be healthy, explore diets around the world using Peter Menzel's Hungry Planet Family Food Portraits, and discuss the scope of the problems of hunger and malnutrition using the World Food Programme HungerMap Live.

Understanding MyPlate (Grades K-2)

  • Lesson
  • Grades K – 2

Students explore appropriate serving sizes and determine how to make healthy dietary decisions by identifying the components of nutrition as illustrated by MyPlate.

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Blue's the Clue: Souring Milk for Science (Grades 6-8)

  • Lesson
  • Grades 6 – 8

This lab introduces students to the effect temperature has on reducing and controlling the growth of bacteria. Students will use conventionally pasteurized and ultra-high-temperature (UHT) milk to observe how different temperatures (hot, room temperature, cool, and freezing) affect the growth of spoilage bacteria. They will also learn about the importance of pasteurization in keeping food safe.

Understanding MyPlate (Grades 3-5)

  • Lesson
  • Grades 3 – 5

Students explore appropriate serving sizes and learn how to make healthy dietary decisions by understanding the components of nutrition as illustrated by MyPlate.

My Farm Web (Grades 3-5)

  • Lesson
  • Grades 3 – 5

Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm.

More Than One Grain of Rice (Grades 3-5)

  • Lesson
  • Grades 3 – 5

Students investigate the cultivation and identify the parts of rice by reading One Grain of Rice by Demi and removing the hull, bran, and germ from grains of rice.

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Hunger and Malnutrition (Grades 3-5)

  • Lesson
  • Grades 3 – 5

Students investigate the importance of eating a variety of foods in order to get all the nutrients needed to be healthy, explore diets around the world using Peter Menzel's Hungry Planet Family Food Portraits, and discuss the scope of the problems of hunger and malnutrition using the World Food Programme HungerMap Live.

Give Me Five!

  • Lesson
  • Grades 3 – 5

Students examine the five food groups and what state-grown foods fit into each group by making a local connection to good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.

Fortified for Health

  • Lesson
  • Grades 3 – 5

Students explore the process of fortification where vitamins and minerals are added to food to make it more healthful and to help people meet their recommended daily intake of different nutrients.

FoodMASTER: Meal Management

  • Lesson
  • Grades 3 – 5

Students choose foods from each of the five food groups to create a meal and calculate the cost of serving the meal to five people and to one person. Students are challenged to plan, prepare, evaluate, and eat a lunch meal that costs less than $1.50 per person.