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What Food Does: teacher key

Healthy Eating, grade 1 edition, written for 1st grade. Find out what food does for your body. Meet protein, calcium and vitamins.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

  1. What does food give your body?
    • Energy (answer)
    • Wings
    • Hats
  2. What does calcium help make?
    • Tall trees
    • Strong bones and teeth (answer)
    • Fast cars
  3. What does your body make when sun shines on skin?
    • Vitamin C
    • Protein
    • Vitamin D (answer)
  4. Which food has protein, like beans?
    • Carrots
    • Milk
    • Eggs (answer)
  5. Which foods have calcium?
    • Milk, yogurt and cheese (answer)
    • Beans and corn
    • Fish and meat

Words

  • protein: body builder
  • calcium: bone helper
  • vitamin: body helper
  • energy: go power