Healthy Eating Food Choices: Australian Health Curriculum Grades 5 & 6

Teach Australia’s Food Groups with This Easy, No-Prep Activity Pack!

Looking for a low-prep, engaging way to introduce your primary students to Australia’s Five Food Groups? This vibrant and interactive activity set is the perfect solution! Students will learn about nutrition, healthy eating habits, and food classification through a variety of fun and meaningful tasks. Ideal for use throughout the year or as part of your Health Curriculum, this resource supports students as they explore food groups through reading, sorting, vocabulary, and writing activities—all while encouraging them to make healthy, informed choices.

What’s Included – 12 Student-Friendly Activities:

✅ Crossword Puzzle – Reinforce food and nutrition vocabulary
✅ Jeopardy-Style Game Questions – Great for review or quiz-style learning
✅ Let’s Find a Match – A fun vocabulary-matching task
✅ Vocabulary Word Sort – Sort key terms into relevant categories
✅ Colour by Number – Answer multiple-choice questions to complete a themed image
✅ Comprehension Task – Read and respond to a healthy eating passage
✅ Create a Word Map – Deepen understanding of food-related vocabulary
✅ Food Group Sorting – Classify foods into: Eat Most, Eat Moderately, and Eat Small Amounts
✅ 60 Food Photo Cards – Colour & black and white images for sorting or visual tasks
✅ Health Mystery Message – Solve addition & subtraction problems to uncover a hidden phrase
✅ Healthy Food Find-a-Word – Great as a warm-up or fast-finisher task
✅ Healthy Choices Board Game – A fun, interactive way to reinforce learning (best printed on card)

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

⭐ Quick and easy to prep – perfect for busy teachers
⭐ Covers key concepts from the Australian Health Curriculum (Years 5-6)
⭐ Great for classroom lessons, small group work, rotations, or casual relief teaching
⭐ A variety of activity types to suit different learning styles
⭐ Encourages critical thinking and healthy lifestyle discussions

Make teaching nutrition fun, meaningful, and stress-free with this all-in-one food group activity pack!

Mix and Match Products-

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⭐Healthy Eating Food Choices: Grades 1-2 Australian Health Curriculum

⭐Healthy Eating Food Choices: Australian Health Curriculum Grades 3 & 4

⭐Healthy Eating Food Choices: Australian Health Curriculum Grades 5 & 6

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