MyPlate Worksheets, Quizzes & Activities — Free for Teachers

Nutrition class, ready to hand out

Worksheets, quizzes, and a hands-on MyPlate activity your students can do today — built from the USDA materials teachers already used, kept free after MyPlate.gov got shut down.

• Free to use, print, and copy — no permission needed
• No login for students — nothing to set up, no student data collected
• Every sheet and activity prints clean, in color or grayscale
• Links open right inside Google Classroom and Teams assignments

Build a Day — plan a day of meals, check the five food groups

Students browse 1,072 real USDA recipes and pick a breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and dessert. The board shows which of the five food groups their day covers — the feedback loop is the lesson. Open Build a Day

They turn it in as a link (paste into any assignment box) or a printed one-pager with their name on it. No accounts, no emails, nothing stored on our servers.

Plan a Day with MyPlate

Use the recipe library at myplate.food/build-a-day to plan one full day of meals.

1. Open myplate.food/build-a-day (or the link your teacher posted).
2. Find yourself a breakfast, a lunch, a dinner, a snack, and a dessert — any recipe can go in any slot.
3. Check your food groups: does your day include fruits, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy?
4. If a group is missing, swap a recipe until you cover all five.
5. Turn it in: copy your day's link into the assignment, or print your day and write your name on it.

The rest of the kit

Everything is one page, one link, and one print button away — nothing to install or license.

• Food-group quizzes — Six multiple-choice quizzes with the original USDA questions.
• Printable tip sheets — One-page "10 tips" handouts — vegetables, grains, budgets, and more.
• Food diary template — Printable 1-, 3-, or 7-day student food log.
• Serving Up MyPlate links — Working replacements for USDA's K-6 curriculum links.
• MyPlate Plan calculator — Older students calculate their own calorie + food-group targets.
• 1,072 USDA recipes — The preserved MyPlate Kitchen library students browse in class.

Teach in Spanish too

The kit is bilingual: Spanish printables include native Plato del Bien Comer and Jarra del Buen Beber sheets — made for Spanish class, ESL, and family newsletters.

• Imprimibles en español — 15 sheets, incl. el Plato del Bien Comer.
• Quizzes en español — Six food-group quizzes.
• Arma tu día — Build a Day, in Spanish.

Teacher FAQ

Are the MyPlate worksheets and quizzes free to print?

Yes — every tip sheet, quiz, and activity here is free to print, copy, and hand out to a class. No license, account, or permission is needed.

Do my students need an account?

No. Build a Day, the quizzes, and the printables all work without any login, and we collect no student information. Students turn in Build a Day as a link or a printed sheet.

Does Build a Day work in Google Classroom or Teams?

Yes. Post the link as an assignment with the share buttons above — it opens right in the Classroom or Teams webview, and students paste their finished day's link into the submission box.

Is this the official USDA MyPlate site?

No — MyPlate.food is independent. It implements the USDA Dietary Guidelines and preserves the MyPlate Kitchen recipes and 10-Tips sheets that went offline when the USDA retired the MyPlate.gov website in 2026.