Food and Nutrition - Healthy Eating, My Plate & Food Groups Interactive Notebook

Need engaging materials to teach students about food and nutrition or healthy eating habits? This nutrition unit includes activities about food groups, My Plate, and making healthy eating choices. Students will be introduced to basic information on food groups, appropriate serving sizes for different food groups, and the My Plate recommended guidelines for healthy eating. 

This food and nutrition unit was designed to help middle and high school life skills students learn rules of healthy eating and nutrition. The mini-books, interactive notebook foldables, worksheets, and file folder activities include extensive visual directions to help students to navigate through the materials as they learn to plan healthy meals and make healthy eating choices in eating from serving size to food groups.

6 Food and Nutrition File Folders 

• Healthy Foods or Treats (Clip Art of Foods)
• Healthy Foods or Treats (Photos of Food)
• Bakery or Produce items (Clip art)
• Meat or Fruit items (Clip art)
• Food from an Animal or a Plant (clip art or photos of food)
• Sort by 5 Food Groups (photos)

10 Nutrition Sorting Cut-and-Paste Worksheets

• 5 healthy or treat
• 5 food from an animal or plant

15 My Plate Food Groups Cut-and-Paste Sorting Worksheets 

• 5 Breakfast plate
• 5 Lunch plate
• 5 Dinner plate

14 Mini Books—color and black and white versions

• 1 Healthy Eating Tips Mini Book
• 7 Recommended Daily Servings Mini Books for different ages and gender
• 6 Serving Size Mini Books introducing how much is a cup or ounce of each category of food (vegetables, fruit, dairy, grains, protein, oils).

Interactive Foldables with templates and picture task analyses for assembling

• A double flip flap book with 2 templates that can be used as the bottom sheet—one that is plain boxes and one that has boxes for placing food pictures (also included).
• A double flip flap book for identifying recommended daily amounts of each food group. Students write in (under the flap) the recommended servings for each category. For students who cannot write in the servings independently, there is a guided sheet that can be used as the bottom layer in which students just write in how many cups or ounces of each category.
• A flip flap book for grouping foods that belong in each food group. For students who cannot write in the servings independently, there is a guided sheet that can be used as the bottom layer in which students glue pictures (included) of food for each category.
• 2 versions of a layered flip book designed to have students sort foods by food group. There are 2 versions. One with color outlines and one in black and white the students can color. Students can write in the foods for different groups or can use the supplied pictures to cut and paste them onto the proper page.

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Or download my Food Sorting Free Worksheets for a free sample of one of the types of worksheets used in this unit.

What teachers are saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I have been using this, it is AWESOME! My kids love it and I have been using the sorted pages for pre and post assessments! Thank you so much!” - Amanda K.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students enjoyed using this resource. They were engaged and had a lot of fun learning about healthy eating, through hands on activities. Thank you!” - Teaching by Dee

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students were able to show their learning through this resource. The repetition helped them review each day until they were fully understanding the concepts.” - Tanya B.

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