“Dole 5 a Day”, (2004).
http://www.dole5aday.com/Kids/K_Index.jsp
Fun website that lets kids get actively involved in learning about the five food
groups. Colour and music will keep them interested while they play games, learn food
group facts, and they can look at the “Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia” or the “Fruit
and Vegetable Nutrition Facts Chart”. This website also has activity sheets teachers can
print off, as well as charts to print off to help kids keep track of their fruit and vegetable
intake.
MyPyramid.gov, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
http://www.mypyramid.gov/kids/index.html
Site has sections for professionals and kids. There are games, posters, and
worksheets. Also a link to USDA Food and Nutrition Services “Team Nutrition” website,
which has links for classroom materials.
“The Great Good Food Caper”, A Webquest for 1st/2nd Grade on Healthy Eating.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/webquest2000/student/ssmippolito/home.ht
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Great resource leading kids through discovering food group facts. Excellent list of
books for children to use, for example: “Food and Your Health” by Jillian Powell,
“Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition” by Lizzy Rockwell, and
“The Food Pyramid (True Books, Food & Nutrition)” by Joan Kalbacken and Sarah De
Capua. Website gives children fun tasks to complete as well as links to websites for each
food group.
“Nutrition and The Food Pyramid”, (2005).
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/nutrition/nutrition.html
Site made by grade one class, child friendly, simple and easy to understand.
Children can click on food pyramid to learn about each group. There are also fun food
riddles, and a list of “fun things to do”, which includes pictures to colour and puzzles to
complete. Site also provides links to other nutrition websites for children.
“Topic: Food Groups”
http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houghton/Learner/NCcurricplanning/JP/foodgroups.html
This site is a lesson plan done by 4 students that takes an in-depth look at the food groups
with fun games and experiments and discussions with the children
“Food & Nutrition Theme - Lesson Plans, Thematic Units, Printables, Worksheets, and
More from A to Z Teacher Stuff”
http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Food___Nutrition/
A page that contains many lesson plans pertaining to food and food groups for
anywhere from K-8 including games, lessons, stories, and activities
“Grade One Central (Life Systems)”, (2002).
http://www.geocities.com/GradeOne_ca/Lessons/life.html
Page provides section with activity ideas for teaching about the food groups, also
links to Science in their learning about the body. Link to Canada’s online food guide.
“Food Group Hoops”
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~sarah435/portfolio/Food%20Group%20Hoops.htm
Lesson plan that gets children moving in fun activity to help them learn about
food groups and test their knowledge, Lesson was designed for grade two but could be
easily adapted.