Five Food Group Bingo
Grade Level: Primary and Upper Elementary
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Activity Synopsis: A fun game of Bingo provides students with practice naming and categorizing foods into the Five Food Groups.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Name and categorize foods into the correct food groups

Fishing For Foods
Grade Level: Primary Elementary
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Activity Synopsis: Students 'go fishing' and practice identifying and categorizing foods into the Five Food Groups.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify a food and the food group to which it belongs

Food Group Concentration
Grade Level: Primary Elementary
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Activity Synopsis: Students try get Food Models for their team by matching food group pairs.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Decide whether each set of Food Models belongs to the same food group

Food Model Mobiles
Grade Level: Primary and Upper Elementary
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Activity Synopsis: Participants work in teams of two to three to create mobiles that represent a day's intake or other criterion, such as healthy snacks, Milk Group foods, breakfast foods, etc.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Select Food Models (or food packages) that represent a day's food intake or other criterion set by the instructor.

Food Model Go Fish
Grade Level: Primary and Upper Elementary
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Activity Synopsis: Students practice categorizing foods into food groups with the familiar game of 'Go Fish' that uses food models as cards.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Categorize foods into the Five Food Groups

Label It Nutrition
Grade Level: Junior-Senior High / Adult
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Activity Synopsis: Volunteers rank foods for particular nutrients, then check to see if they are correct using the Nutrition Label. Working in groups, they use Nutrition Labels to find foods high and low in particular nutrients.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Read a Food Model/food label

Brown Bagging It
Grade Level: Upper Elementary / Junior and Senior High / Adult
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Activity Synopsis: Using their knowledge of the Five Food Groups, participants modify a meal represented by an assortment of Food Models in a lunch bag. This activity can be varied (link to the variations below) depending on the interests and needs of your groups.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Modify a meal to include foods from the Five Food Groups

20 Questions
Grade Level: Primary / Upper Elementary
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Activity Synopsis: Participants guess a food by posing "yes" and "no" questions to the class.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Solve a simple food identification problem

Moving Down the Line
Grade Level: Upper Elementary / Junior and Senior High / Adult
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Activity Synopsis: After introducing a topic, such as balanced meals or breakfasts, students go through a "cafeteria" of Food Models and select a meal that puts what they learn into practice.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Plan a meal using the principles introduced in a classroom discussion/lesson

From Moo to You
Grade Level: Preschool / Kindegarten
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Activity Synopsis: After listening to a story about cows or a dairy farm, students identify foods made from milk and learn a "Five Mugs of Milk" finger play.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify foods made from milk

Get a Feel for Food
Grade Level: Preschool / Kindegarten
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Activity Synopsis: Students try to describe the size, shape and feel of a food hidden in a "feely bag" and then select the Food Model from a group that corresponds to the food. In a tasting party afterwards, they sample the food and describe the color, taste and smell.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Describe the characteristics of a foods after they feel it

Let's Go on a Hunt
Grade Level: Preschool / Kindegarten
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Activity Synopsis: Students hunt for specific color foods hidden around the room or outside.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify the names and colors of a variety of foods

Food Rainbow
Grade Level: Preschool / Kindegarten
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Activity Synopsis: Students match the colors of different fruits to the corresponding colors on a rainbow, and then make and taste "Rainbow Salad."
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Name and identify the colors of selected fruits

Happy Food Song
Grade Level: Preschool / Kindegarten
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Activity Synopsis: After they learn the "Happy Food Song," students sing and perform large-motor movements and hold up their Food Models to identify different foods.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• Identify a food through music movement

Where Food Grows
Grade Level: Preschool / Kindegarten
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Activity Synopsis: Children select different fruit and vegetable Food Models and decide whether they grow on a tree, or above or below the ground.
Activity Outcomes
Students will be able to:

• State that vegetables and fruits grow above or below the ground
• Identify different fruits and vegetables
• For each fruit or vegetable identified, decide as a group whether it grows on a tree, above the ground or below the ground

Concentration
Grade Level: Early Childhood
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Activity Synopsis: After children name the foods in a set of Food Models, they cover their eyes while one is removed than guess which one is missing.
Activity Outcomes
Children will be able to:

• Name the foods in a given set of Food Models
• Identify which food has been removed from a set of Food Models