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Food Model Activities 3 - Food Group Concentration

Grade Level: Primary Elementary

Activity Synopsis

Students try to get Food Models for their team by matching food group pairs.

Activity Outcome

Students will be able to:

• Decide whether each set of Food Models belongs to the same food group

Materials and Advance Prep

• Large bulletin board
• Push pins
• 42 5-inch squares of paper numbered 1 through 42
• Select 42 food models - 6 from each of the Five Food Groups, Combination Foods and 'Others'
• Randomly mount the Food Models on a bulletin board.
• Cover each Food Model with a square of paper

What You Do

1. Divide participants into two teams, Team A and Team B.
2. Have the first player from Team A call out two numbers. Uncover the foods with those numbers.


• If the foods are from the same good group, for example cheese and yogurt, the team receives the two Food Models.
• If the foods are from different food groups, the foods are covered again.
3. Switch teams and have the first player from Team B call out two numbers.
4. Continue play until all the foods are matched.
5. The team with the most Food Models wins.

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