Eat the Five Food Group Way!®

What Belongs, What Doesn't

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

Activity Objectives
Students will be able to:

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

Material and Advance Prep:

• Print and duplicate Eat the Five Food Group Way!® handout (1 per student)

What to Do:

1. Open the activity by asking students to name the Five Groups. As a brief review, have students name 4 to 5 foods from each group, using the Eat the Five Food Group Way!® handout as a reference.
2. Name sets of 4 foods. Three of the foods in the set should belong to the same food group and the fourth should not. Begin with these examples, then create your own.
3. Ask students to listen to all 4 foods and raise their hands when they know which food "doesn't belong." Also ask students to explain why the food does not belong.

• Yogurt, American cheese, carrots, milk
• Turkey, potato chips, pork chop, hamburger
• Grapefruit, crackers, rye bread, dinner roll
• Orange juice, soft drink, apple juice, banana
• French fries, fried chicken, fish sticks, fried egg
• Frozen yogurt, buttermilk, 2% reduced fat milk, milk chocolate candy bar
• Orange, fruit cocktail, muffin, cantaloupe
• Celery, coleslaw, Cheddar cheese, lettuce
• Apple, strawberries, banana, squash
• Corn on the cob, corn flakes, spinach, salad
• Chocolate milk, chocolate pudding, chocolate cake, chocolate milkshake
• Peanut butter, shrimp, raisins, sunflower seeds
• Fried egg, hard cooked egg, scrambled egg, egg noodles
• Whole wheat bread, mashed potatoes, cauliflower, zucchini
• Pancake, English muffin, tortilla, cookie
• Peach, potato, pear, pineapple
• Mozzarella cheese, cottage cheese, oatmeal, frozen yogurt
• Green beans, green pepper, green peas, green grapes
• Waffle, watermelon, white bread, rice
• Biscuit, bagel, broccoli, bran flakes

Optional: If you have Dairy Council Food Models, give a Food Model to each student. Select four students at a time - three with Food Models from the same food group and a fourth from a different group - to show their foods. Have students identify the food that doesn't belong and explain why it does not belong.

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