Food pyramid Teacher Resources

[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary to middle school students can learn from the resources here about food and nutrition. In particular is a lesson plan and worksheet on the food pyramid guidelines issued by the USDA in 2005.

Choose healthy foods to balance the robots' diets for this food pyramid game.

In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy interviews Food Pyramid, who tells him that he's retiring! But wait, there's a new food helper in town-- Food Plate! Students learn about the idea of the Food Plate, that divides the average meal...

This multi-day lesson engages students in exploring healthy habits and components of the food pyramid. Students will describe their favorite foods that will be part of a class tasting party at the end of the days.

Games, posters, and coloring pages help explain the food pyramid and the importance of good nutrition to kids.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teacher-created flipchart takes students through a short examination of food groups as outlined in the MyPyramd dietary guidelines. [The U.S. government set aside its MyPyramid dietary guidelines in...

Lesson begins with a review of the food guide pyramid. The book Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat (not provided through activity) is read and discussed in light of healthy eating. In groups, students create healthy meals...

For this lesson, students learn about marine food webs and pyramids, and how energy flows through a marine ecosystem. They then research a marine organism and its role in a marine food web. The class pools their information to create a...

During this lesson, students will listen to a poem about a balanced diet and create a foldable. In each section of the foldable, students will include information about a different food group and will use this creation as a study guide.

During this healthy foods lesson plan, students will sort foods into "healthy" and "unhealthy" categories.Students with then keep a food journal and reflect about their food choices.

The CDC offers a wealth of information regarding several specific topics that fall under nutrition including good health, exercise, diet and more.

In this unit students explore major marine ecosystems by locating them on maps. Students use marine examples to learn about energy transfer through food chains and food webs and then they discuss how food webs can illustrate the health...

The older you become the more choices you will have to make about what types of food will make up your diet. This article relates the importance of a well rounded diet. Find out more about how good food has everything to do with how you...

Teachers will model sentences about their favorite foods. Students will mimic these sentences about their own favorite foods and will illustrate pictures of them. All pages will be assembled into a class book.

In this lesson, 2nd graders will learn about the components of a balanced diet. Students will analyze charts and then self-report their own foods in categories. Several fiction and nonfiction books are listed as additional resources.

In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy and the kids are painting a rainbow salad until Uncle Freddy interrupts, and they teach him that vibrant colored natural foods are much more healthy and have more vitamins and minerals than ones...

Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food. Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body. It...

This lesson plan engages students in reading activities related to James Marshall's book, Yummers. Students will analyze the diet of the main character and determine what made the character sick.

These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on vegetables. Using these materials, students will learn that veggies contain specific nutrients that...

Everything you wanted to know about keeping your brain healthy. How should you nourish your brain, how should your brain be protected, and even how to "renew" or stimulate your brain.

Students will make observations about different types of advertisements. Students will watch distinguish the types of advertisements shown during commercial breaks associated with their cartoons and the news.

Evaluate current guidelines for a healthy diet, compare them to one's own eating habits and learn safe behaviors for maintaining a healthy weight. Analyze the food pyramid, fast-food and health-food nutrition and the causes of obesity.

Are people wasting yard waste? Why not turn a small corner of a backyard into a nutrient source that not only replenishes the soil but supports the base of the bird food pyramid.

National Public Radio talks with Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard MD and nutritionist, about changes that need to be made in the 1992 US Food Guide Pyramid. Interesting as an introduction to this topic, with links to related stories.