MyPlate Worksheets, Quizzes & Activities: Free for Teachers
Print-ready tip sheets, food-group quizzes, and a Build-a-Day class activity students do with no login. Free, in English and Spanish, ready for Google Classroom and Teams.
Nutrition class, ready to hand out
Free worksheets, quizzes and a hands-on MyPlate activity your class can start today, built on the USDA materials you already teach.
- Every worksheet, tip sheet and the MyPlate Plan calculator: free to print and copy for a class, no license needed
- No login for students
- Every sheet and activity prints clean, in color or grayscale
- Links open right inside Google Classroom and Teams assignments
The MyPlate.gov classroom materials, ready to print
Free for your class: the 7 classroom worksheets with answer keys, the tip sheets, the quizzes and the MyPlate Plan calculator.
The USDA retired the MyPlate.gov website in January 2026. RealFood.gov replaces it, built on the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines and an inverted pyramid instead of a plate. See what changed, side by side.
Teaching USDA's Serving Up MyPlate? Every ChooseMyPlate.gov link in it has a matching page here.
Build a Day: plan meals by food group
Students browse 1,072 real USDA recipes and plan five meals for one day. The board shows which of the five food groups their day covers. Spotting a missing group 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.
- Open myplate.food/build-a-day (or the link your teacher posted).
- Find yourself a breakfast, a lunch, a dinner, a snack, and a dessert. Any recipe can go in any slot.
- Check your food groups: does your day include fruits, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy?
- If a group is missing, swap a recipe until you cover all five.
- 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
Link any of these in an assignment or print it for your class.
- Classroom worksheets: 7 printable food-group worksheets (coloring page to odd-one-out), with every answer key on one page.
- 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
Spanish printables include Plato del Bien Comer and Jarra del Buen Beber sheets for Spanish class, ESL and family newsletters.
- Imprimibles en español: 18 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 or permission is needed.
Do my students need an account?
No. Build a Day, the quizzes, and the printables all work without a login. Build a Day and the quizzes never ask for a student's name or email. 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.