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™ Lessons
Hands-on lessons with a classroom-cafeteria connection:

Food Groups to Encourage Message Signs (pdf)

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

• Think Your Drink Activity Instructions (pdf)
• How Much Sugar Activity Master (pdf)
• Think Your Drink Master (pdf)
• Think Your Drink color (pdf)

Check out our materials catalog for additional items

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