MyPlate Menu

MyPlate Menu Tutorial Video

This tutorial video will walk you through the MyPlate Menu activity.

Lesson Plan: Understanding MyPlate

Students explore appropriate serving sizes and learn how to make healthy dietary decisions by understanding the components of nutrition as illustrated by MyPlate.

Describe the necessary food components of a healthy diet using the current dietary guidelines (T3.3-5.a)

1.5.1 Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

3.5.2 Locate resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information.

5.5.5 Choose a healthy option when making a decision.

Farmers' Market Finds

Lesson Plan: Farmers Market Finds

Students explore the value of farmers markets to local communities and discover the benefits of locally-grown food.

Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)

Provide examples of agricultural products available, but not produced in their local area and state (T5.3-5.e)

Diagram the path of production for a processed product, from farm to table (T3.3-5.b)

Distinguish between processed and unprocessed food (T3.3-5.c)

3-LS4-3 Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

3-LS4-4 Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the type of plants and animals that live there may change.

4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

5-LS1-1 Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

Crop Commercial

Lesson Plan: My Farm Web

Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm.

Identify the major ecosystems and agro-ecosystems in their community or region (e.g., hardwood forests, conifers, grasslands, deserts) with agro-ecosystems (e.g., grazing areas and crop growing regions) (T1.3-5.d)

Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)

Discover that there are many jobs in agriculture (T5.3-5.b)

Diagram the path of production for a processed product, from farm to table (T3.3-5.b)

Identify careers in food, nutrition, and health (T3.3-5.f)

1.5.1 Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

2.5.2 Identify the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors.

Produce Poster

Lesson Plan: Making Half MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables

Students examine MyPlate and discover the importance of making half their plate fruits and vegetables.

Describe the necessary food components of a healthy diet using the current dietary guidelines (T3.3-5.a)

1.5.1 Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.

3.5.2 Locate resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information.

5.5.5 Choose a healthy option when making a decision.

7.5.1 Identify responsible personal health behaviors.

My Energy Cycle

Lesson Plan: Give Me Five!

Students examine the five food groups and what state-grown foods fit into each group by making a local connection to good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.

Describe the necessary food components of a healthy diet using the current dietary guidelines (T3.3-5.a)

5.5.5 Choose a healthy option when making a decision.

7.5.1 Identify responsible personal health behaviors.

7.5.2 Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

7.5.3 Demonstrate a variety of behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks.