The Five Food Groups
Grade Level: Fourth Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: After identifying factors that affect personal health and focusing in on good nutrition, students read Act I of The Pyramid Explorations™ Theater. They discuss foods in each food group and review of how each food group keeps them healthy. They end the activity writing a short letter to space aliens.
Objectives:

• Name all Five Food Groups in the Food Guide Pyramid
• Identify factors that affect personal health
• Name at least five foods in each food group
• State one way each food group keeps them healthy

The Food Guide Pyramid
Grade Level: Fourth Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students learn about the Food Guide Pyramid in detail learning a second health benefit of each food group and the nutrients in each group. They discuss a metaphor to help them understand why all Five Food Groups are essential to a healthy diet.
Objectives:

• Recognize the Food Guide Pyramid
• Identify at least two ways each of the Five Food Groups helps keep them healthy
• Name a key nutrient from each food group
• Explain why they should eat foods from all the food groups every day

The Balancing Act
Grade Level: Fourth Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students learn that 4-2-3-2-6 gives them the right mix of foods from each food group. After reading Act III of The Pyramid Explorations™ Theater, they evaluate the aliens' diets.
Objectives:

• Understand that 4-2-3-2-6 is the minimum Five Food Group servings students they need for a healthy diet: 4 Milk Group servings; 2 Meat Group servings; 3 Vegetable Group servings; 2 Fruit Group servings; Grain Group servings
• Evaluate a day's worth of meals and snacks using the 4-2-3-2-6 criterion

Building Body-Building Snacks and Meals
Grade Level: Fourth Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students learn that by combining nutritious foods into body-building meals and snacks, they can eat a healthy diet. In Part I, students suggest examples of body-building meals and snacks and evaluate their suggestions. They also learn what foods belong in the "Others" category and why. In Part II, students read The Pyramid Explorations™ Theater, Act IV and plan body-building meals and snacks.
Objectives:

• Understand that nutritious foods can be combined to make body-building snacks and meals
• Explain what the "Others" category is and identify at least three "Others" foods
• State that it's okay to eat "Others" foods but not too often
• Understand that by selecting body-building snacks and meals, students can eat the recommended number of servings from each of the Five Food Groups each day

Winning Combinations
Grade Level: Fourth Grade / Upper Elementary
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Description: Students learn what a Combination Food is and practice identifying food groups represented in several examples. They practice creating large body-building meals using Combination Foods.
Objectives:

• Explain what a Combination Food is and name at least three examples
• Recognize the foods and food groups in a Combination Food

Planning for Success
Grade Level: Fourth Grade / Upper Elementary
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Description: Students begin by reading the last act of The Pyramid Explorationsª Theater. After discussing the last day of the adventure, they plan one day's meals and snacks for themselves and Roc and a second day for themselves and Marlah. Finally, they evaluate their own diets and identify one thing they can do to eat more healthfully.
Objectives:

• Plan a day's worth of body-building meals and snacks that meet the criterion of 4-2-3-2-6