" August 1, 2022 - USDA’s Team Nutrition is excited to announce the release of new Fueling My Healthy Life nutrition education for 7th and 8th grade students. This standards-aligned and inquiry-based collection of educational resources is designed to engage middle school students using a variety of learning styles.
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August 1, 2022 - USDA’s Team Nutrition is excited to announce the release of new Fueling My Healthy Life nutrition education for 7th and 8th grade students, available at fns.usda.gov/tn/fueling-my-healthy-life. This standards-aligned and inquiry-based collection of educational resources is designed to engage middle school students using a variety of learning styles.
Educators can pick and choose from a variety of learning activities to create a fun lesson with easy to access digital materials including informational text articles, student assessments, digital interactives (i.e., games), and videos.
The new 7th and 8th grade materials will join the previously-released resources for 6th grade. All materials for each grade are available on the Team Nutrition website:
- 6th Grade: Start Right With Breakfast (fns.usda.gov/tn/start-smart-breakfast) - Students explore why eating breakfast matters, what constitutes a balanced breakfast, and how MyPlate can help them make healthy eating choices.
- 7th Grade: What’s Your Healthy Eating Style (fns.usda.gov/tn/whats-your-healthy-eating-style) - Students explore their eating patterns and ways to choose nutritious foods and drinks that are low in added sugars, saturated fats, and sodium.
- 8th Grade: The Truth About Snacking and Sodium (fns.usda.gov/tn/truth-about-snacking-and-sodium) - Students explore how sodium affects the human body, how to track nutrients in the foods they eat, and how to make healthy snack and meal choices.
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