My Plate Activity Workbook for Kids Nutrition Lessons

The MyPlate Activity Workbook for Students and Classrooms is FUN!

Great story with illustrations:

• Read the story about Captain Health and the Case of the Disappearing Nutrients.
• It is illustrated and tells a story about a lunchroom at Sofa Elementary School that has a sneaky problem.
• Captain Health comes to the rescue.
• Everyone loves to read a good story and Captain Health and the case of the missing nutrients explains everything they need to know to eat better lunches every day.

Create A Snack With MyPlate

• Create great snacks with MyPlate.
• Each snack ingredient is listed under its food group.
• Kids get to create 3 snacks.
• Have a contest or post a new snack each week featuring a new student's creation.

UH OH! Find the MyPlate Imposters!

• A fun activity to find the foods that are hiding under the wrong groups.
• Emphasizes the use of food groups for nutrition.

What's In It?

Page 1 - Cover

Pages 2 to 6 - The story of Captain Health and the Missing Nutrients - take turns reading aloud and find out how Sir Eats-A_Lot has replaced all the healthful foods with foods that are loaded with solid fats and added sugars

Page 7 - Worksheet using a list of foods in food groups to create MyPlate snacks

Page 8 - MyPlate Impostors puzzle - solve the puzzle by finding the foods in each of the MyPlate food groups that don't belong. (Hint: there is a chicken hiding in the vegetable group!)

BONUS Handout Download:

Create an advertisement for MyPlate - great for older kids so they can explain a few of their favorite things about MyPlate. Draw your favorite foods. And then add advice for others so they can take advantage of MyPlate, too.

Specs:

• Grades K to 3
• English
• 8.5"X 11"
• 8 pages
• Saddle stitched
• Printed in color