Name That Food
Grade Level: 4th Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students work in small groups to complete a grid in which they name foods that meet two criteria required for each box of a puzzle.
Objectives:

• Identify foods with two attributes for each of the Five Food Groups
• Generate as many solutions as possible for the two attributes
• Develop skills for working in small groups

Meet the Five Food Groups
Grade Level: 2nd Grade / Primary Elementary
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Description: Students are introduced to the Five Food Groups and review the foods in each group.
Objectives:

• Identify the Five Food Groups and foods within each group
• Identify foods in the 'Others' category

Five Food Groups on Parade
Grade Level: 2nd Grade / Primary Elementary
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Description: Students put their art talents to work and create a Parade-of-Foods mural on a window, mural paper or posters. This is a great activity to display at an open house.
Objectives:

• Identify foods within each food group to draw or paint
• Draw or paint foods to create a Five Food Group class art project
• Develop skills for working in small groups

What Belongs, What Doesn't
Grade Level: 2nd Grade / Primary Elementary
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Description: Students practice classifying foods into food groups by identifying one food in a set of four that "doesn't belong" and explaining why.
Objectives:

• Use critical thinking skills to determine which food does not belong in a given group of foods

Balancing Act
Grade Level: 4th Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students identify the number of food group servings they should eat each day and compare them to their daily diet.
Objectives:

• Decide whether the meals and snacks they ate in a typical day meet the Five Food Group recommendations

Combo Shuffle
Grade Level: 4th Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students work in small groups to identify Combination Foods based on their ingredients.
Objectives:

• Identify Combination Foods based on their ingredients
• Create a new Combination Food that they are willing to eat
• Develop skills for working in small groups

V is for Variety
Grade Level: 4th Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students discuss the concept of variety and reasons we need to eat a range of foods from the Five Food Groups every day.
Objectives:

• Explain the phrase "eat a variety of foods" and determine whether different groups of food provide variety

Food Group Simon Says
Grade Level: 2nd Grade / Primary Elementary
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Description: Students practice classifying foods into the Five Food Groups in a fun game of "Simon Says."
Objectives:

• Classify foods into the Five Food Groups
• Practice listening skills
• Use negative and positive attributes to classify foods into Food Groups