Activities for Grades 4, 5, 6

Extend nutrition learning with fun and easy activities that you can use both inside and outside of the classroom:

• Grocery Bag Activity
• Build A Healthy Snack
• Rapping For Nutrition
• Reasons to Drink Milk
• Snack Challenge Game
• Make Breakfast Happen Every Morning
• Healthy Snack Choices Everywhere
• The Facts are on the Label
• Nutrient Scavenger Hunt
• Tongue Taste Experiments
• Eye Witness To Fitness
• Savings at the Bone Bank

New! Bridges to Wellness™
Hands-on lessons teach the Dietary Guidelines Food Groups to Encourage, the 3-A-Day™ of Dairy Nutrient Package, and includes a classroom-cafeteria connection

New! More Teaching Ideas
Find more activities from National Dairy Council®, such as Scooter Around for Good Nutrition, Name that Food Group Sandwich and Create a Nutrition PowerPoint Presentation, to supplement your nutrition unit!

Teaching Healthy Snacking
Teach students to choose nutritious snacks using a full-color ‘Rock Your Day with Healthy Snacks’ mini poster and activity, ‘Build-A-Snack’ reproducible masters and fun snack games.

3-A-Day™ of Dairy Lessons
Fun lessons use language arts, math and physical activity to teach 2^nd and 4^th graders about building strong bones.

Eat the Five Food Group Way®
Teach students to Eat the Five Food Group Way!® with fun, activity-based lessons.

Food Model Activities for All Ages
From ‘Five Food Group Bingo’ to ‘Food Group Concentration,’ find fun, hands-on activities using Dairy Council's® Food Models.  These life-size photographs of over 200 foods are available through the catalog.

Think Your Drink
Help students make healthy beverage choices using this reproducible master that compares the nutrient pluses and minuses for eight popular beverages.
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