Serving Up MyPlate — Working Links (ChooseMyPlate.gov Replacement for Teachers)

USDA's Serving Up MyPlate curriculum still tells students to visit ChooseMyPlate.gov — but that site shut down in January 2026. Here's the working replacement for every activity: food-group pages, the MyPlate Plan calculator, recipes, printables, and quizzes. Free, ad-free for classrooms.

Serving Up MyPlate still works — the website it links to is gone

USDA's Serving Up MyPlate: A Yummy Curriculum is still hosted and still free, but its worksheets tell students to "Visit http://www.chooseMyPlate.gov to see what is in each food group." ChooseMyPlate.gov became MyPlate.gov, and the USDA shut down MyPlate.gov in January 2026 — so if the Serving Up MyPlate links are not working in your classroom, it is not your computer; the destination no longer exists. Here is the working ChooseMyPlate.gov replacement for every activity — the lessons are unchanged; only the page they point to moved here.

Where the curriculum says ChooseMyPlate.gov, use these instead

Exploring the five food groups — the five food groups (a page each for fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy), with what counts as a serving and example foods.
Working out personal daily amounts — the MyPlate Plan calculator, rebuilt from the USDA food-pattern tables.
Cooking and tasting activities — 1,072 preserved MyPlate Kitchen recipes with full nutrition data.
Handouts to send home — print-ready MyPlate tip sheets, free to copy.
Checking what students learned — free food-group quizzes for a quick companion check.

Get the curriculum, and a note for FCCLA advisors

Serving Up MyPlate is USDA Team Nutrition's, free to download in three levels — Level 1 (grades 1–2), Level 2 (grades 3–4), and Level 3 (grades 5–6) — at fna.usda.gov. We complement it with working links; we do not host or claim it. FCCLA Student Body advisors: the same replacements apply, since that program also cites ChooseMyPlate.gov. MyPlate.food is an independent rebuild and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.