Lessons | Tools & Resources | Fuel Up To Play 60

Fuel Up to Play 60 provides fun, focused ways for students to make their school a healthier place. Students can help design and lead these programs or even create their own-with a little help from you. These resources will help you and your students plan for, implement, promote and evaluate the Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Plays your team selects. The lessons in this section support the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and MyPlate and MyPyramid.

Little D's Nutrition Expedition®

Transport your 2nd graders back to the time of castles and dragons where they learn the basics of healthy eating from Little D the Five-Food-Group Dragon and his Royal Food Family friends. Ten story-based activities that help students develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, support the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPlate, and supplement your language arts program.


Activity 1 - Meet the Royal Family	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Movement, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 2 - Sir Milkford and Lady Holly's Milk Group	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Movement, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 3 - King Henry's Meat Group	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Movement, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 4 - Princess Peapod's Vegetable Group	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Movement, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 5 - Queen Anna Banana's Fruit Group	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 6 - Prince Waffle's Grain Group	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Movement, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 7 - We Need All Five!	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Movement, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 8 - Dragon's Tail	K-2	Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 9 - Smart Snacking Dragon	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 10 - Healthfully Ever After	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Mathematics, Reading/LA	View Lesson

Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™

Hold on and get ready for a trip around the globe with expert sleuths Arianna Bones and Marcus Muscleman. Students solve nutrition mysteries to learn about healthy eating in Antarctica, on the Orient Express and at other exciting venues. During this eight-activity program that supports the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPlate, and supplements your language arts and health curricula, students record their global adventures in nutrition journals.


Activity 1 - Arianna Bones and the Case of the Missing Food Groups	3-5	Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 2 - Arianna Bones and the 'Great-Mysteries-of-Nutrition' Pavilion	3-5	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 3 - Arianna in Antarctica	3-5	Cross-Curricular, Mathematics, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 4 - Marcus's Big City Adventure	3-5	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 6 - Arianna and the Combination Cookbook	3-5	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 7 - The Riddle of the Playground Cave	3-5	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 8 - Adventures Remembered	3-5	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
Activity 5 - Arianna Travels the Orient Express	3-5	Cross-Curricular, Mathematics, Reading/LA	View Lesson

Food Model Activities

The following activities use Dairy Council's colorful Food Models to teach nutrition basics. Each Food Model pictures a food in its recommended serving size, and provides information on the back similar to that found on food labels. Food Models can be ordered from the National Dairy Council (limited supply), however, food pictures, food packages and nutrition labels can also be used for these activities.


1 - Five Food Group Bingo	Elementary	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
2 - Brown Bagging it	Elementary & Secondary	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
3 - Food Group Concentration	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
4 - Fishing for Foods Game	K-2	Cross-Curricular, Movement	View Lesson
5 - Food Model Go Fish	Elementary	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
6 - Label It Nutrition	Elementary & Secondary	Cross-Curricular, Mathematics, Reading/LA	View Lesson
7 - Food Model Mobiles	Elementary	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
8 - 20 Questions	Elementary	Cross-Curricular, Mathematics	View Lesson
9 - Moving Down the Line	Elementary & Secondary	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
10 - Concentration	PreK/K	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
11 - Happy Food Song	PreK/K	Cross-Curricular, Movement	View Lesson
12 - Where Food Grows	PreK/K	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
13 - From Moo to You	PreK/K	Cross-Curricular, Mathematics, Movement	View Lesson
14 - Get a Feel for Food	PreK/K	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
15 - Let's Go on a Hunt	PreK/K	Cross-Curricular, Reading/LA	View Lesson
16 - Food Rainbow	PreK/K	Cross-Curricular, Mathematics, Reading/LA	View Lesson

Nutrition Education Resources