Pick Your Plate

Help your students explore nutrition and healthy eating with this fun lesson. Talk about different kinds of food and then create your own favorite meal with the "Pick Your Plate" activity, based on MyPlate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Categories

Age Group: Preschool
ELOF Domain: Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Resource Format: PDF
Language: English
Smithsonian Museum: National Museum of American History
Topic: Food
Words "Pick Your Plate" appear above a graphic of a plate broken up into segments. Each segment is labeled as Fruits, Grains, Vegetables, and Protein. Next to the plate is a black fork and a circle that says Dairy.

Part of the Following Programs

A pink jackalope puppet stands next to a man playing the guitar. On their left is a red ruffed lemur and on their right is a California sea lion.

Fancy Food

What do animals eat? What do humans eat? Are animal diets and human diets similar, different, or both?
Content Unit :
Food
Featured Creature :
Red ruffed lemur, California sea lion
Smithsonian Partners :
National Museum of African American History and Culture; National Museum of American History; National Museum of Asian Art; National Museum of Natural History
ELOF Standards :
IT-C 1; IT-C 3, IT-PMP 4; IT-PMP 11; P-SCI 2; P-PMP 1; P-PMP 5
A cartoon character of a man holding a guitar and a pink jackalope puppet stand next to a western lowland gorilla and a red ruffed lemur.

Food with Friends

Explore the foods that people and animals eat! Discover how our meals can be similar and different, and how sharing food can bring us together.

Content Unit :

Food

Featured Creature :

Western Lowland Gorilla + Red Ruffed Lemur

Featured School :

Holyoke-Chicopee-Springfield Head Start (Massachusetts)

ELOF Standards :

Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Communication; Scientific Reasoning