This PDF lesson plan found on the Choose My Plate website provides great resources for teachers planning lessons on nutrition for first or second graders. These lesson plans are created by My Plate and the USDA to line up with the standards and be integrated into other lessons. The lessons include fun games, worksheets, and even fun songs … Continue reading 2nd Grade Nutrition: Teacher Website
My Plate Match Game! Here is the link to the interactive game for kids from the site Dairy Council of California–Healthy Eating Made Easier. This game is great because it first provides kids with a chance to create a plate using the five major food groups and learn about each food group and why it’s important. … Continue reading 2nd GradeNutrition: Kid Friendly Website–My Plate Match Game
Eat Healthy, Feel Great By William Sears Published by Little (Brown Books for Young Readers) in 2002 This non-fiction book provides students with tools, information, and resources to make healthy decisions about eating. The book categorizes foods into “red light”, “yellow light” and “green light” groups, depending on how much and how often kids should … Continue reading Nonfiction Book for Nutrition
From Farm to Table. Here is the site to Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms where the students will go. Summary. Students get to go on a field trip to Skagit Valley Farm where they get the chance to speak to a farmer right in their element. They students get the chance to see where food … Continue reading Local Resource: Skagit Valley Farm
Student Online Resource Healthy Eating Description Although the Healthy Eating website by the Dairy Council of California is mainly an adult friendly website, there are some awesome games and activities to teach young students about a nutritious diet. There is even some tie between this website and the Choose My Plate Diet with the My … Continue reading Student Resource
Teacher Internet Resource Choose My Plate Description Choose My Plate is a government website that explains a simple way to eat a well-balanced diet. My Plate is a visual representation of the five main food groups that should be included in each meal and how large the portions of these food groups should be. This … Continue reading Teacher Internet Resource
Parent Internet Source Feeding My Kid Description This website is a resource for parents who want to know how to and what to feed their children. Kids can be pretty picky eaters, but there are many articles and recipes that may be helpful for those parents struggling to figure out what their child will eat. There’s … Continue reading Parent Internet Source
Click Breakfast to see the video Title. To Eat or Not To Eat – Breakfast Producer. PBS kids – Dragonfly TV Year. N/A Length. 5.5 minutes Rating. N/A although I would say it is G Summary: Cameron and Ashley want to find out if eating breakfast makes a difference in terms of how well a student … Continue reading Documentary: Breakfast
Non-Fiction Book Title: How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? Author: Chris Butterworth Publication: Candlewick; 2013 Summary This book tells the story of where many items come from that are often found inside of a lunch box. It explains what happens to get milk to turn into cheese, where tomatoes come from, and how apples … Continue reading Non-Fiction Literature: Nutrition
Click Food for Thought to watch the video. Here is the Sesame Street- Try it! New Foods song! Title. Sesame Street: Food for thought Producer. Sesame Workshop, Christina Delfico and Kevin Clash, Mason Rather Year made. N/A Length. 25 minutes Rating. Not Rated but most likely rated G Summary. It starts off with Elmo who … Continue reading Popular Film: Sesame Street – Food for Thought