University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Watermelon Watch Your Garden Grow
Learn about delicious watermelon! Growing, varieties, nutrition, recipes, and photos are allincluded.
University of Chicago
Encyclopedia Romana: Wine and Rome
This article from the Encyclopedia Romana contains an extensive discussion on the development of wine cultivation in the Roman Republic. The information is very in-depth and informative, with links to additional information. This is...
National Geographic
National Geographic: What the World Eats
This interactive website offers pie charts showing what the world eats and what 22 different countries eat. It also allows you to choose by year as well. These include food groups, calories, and grams overall and per category.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Food Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines
Learners will learn about the Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines by looking at samples of serving sizes and filling out worksheets.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Brown Bag Activity Plan
It's time for lunch! For this week-long adventure, children will explore numbers and counting in the context of healthy eating. They will learn about the five food groups and create a healthy lunch using foods from each food group. Each...
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
International Year of Rice, 2004: Kids! Rice Facts
Kid-friendly questions and answers about rice, the way it grows, and the many uses for it.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo! La Comida, Capitulo 4
Spanish content; match words to images in this interactive vocabualry exercise dealing with the topic of food.
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: Hartford Web Pub.: Pre Columbian Hispaniola
This site describes the Arawak and Taino Indians on the island of Hispaniola. Read about their lifestyle, housing, dress, food, and religion.
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Antique Roman Dishes
This website reprints recipes in English from Apicius' famous cookbook "De Re Coquinaria." Beware, the Romans had strange tastes. Don't make too many of these to see how your tastes agree!
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University: Antique Roman Recipes
Provides recipes for many Roman dishes plus a listing of the some of the Roman ingredients such as "liquamen" (salty fish sauce) or "defritum" (thick fig syrup).
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: California: What Are the Life Processes in Humans?
Johnny is a crab fisherman. He believes crabs are a lot like humans. Listen to his explanation as to why he believes this.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Hawaii: What Are the Life Processes in Animals?
Kamoku is a boy from Hawaii who is interested in the seven life processes. Do you know what these are? Join Kamoku and discover them with him.
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Read Works
Read Works: Food for Energy [Pdf]
This informational text passage explains how living things get energy from their food. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American: Never Say Die: Eat Less Live Longer
This site from the PBS production "Never Say Die" provides a section on how to eat less and live longer. The first part of this site discusses food and nutrition. The second part is an activity in which you can make a calorimeter. The...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Chem Prime: Creating a Connection Between Everyday Life and Stoichiometry
Students learn about stoichiometry, and make the connection between stoichiometry and when they use the same mathematical process during their every day life.
Writing Fix
Writingfix: Alliteration Potluck
In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the lesson is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include his/her name, a...
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Nutricion Y Salud
Throughout this unit you will learn the main ideas about nutrition and health. It contains 34 interactive activities.
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Science Quizzes: Food Quiz
A twenty-question quiz covering general knowledge of food.
Vocabulary.com
Vocabulary for National Grilled Cheese Day
This site contains a list of 10 words that are synonyms to the words "grill" or "cheesy". Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Giant Sea Creatures Eat Tiny Sea Creatures
Kelly Benoit-Bird discusses new research that shows large sea animals actually herding their tiny food into big, bitable chunks. [6:22]
Climate Literacy
Clean: How Much Energy Is on My Plate?
This activity leads students through a sequence of learning steps that highlight the embedded energy that is necessary to produce various types of food. Students start by thinking through the components of a basic meal and are later...
Other
Scotland.com
Basic facts and travel information about Scotland. Information is available about business, community, travel, culture, news, sports, and shopping.
Other
The International Society of Malthus
A homepage of the International Society of Malthus, a group dedicated to the history and teachings of Thomas Malthus. Includes data on human population and contemporary essays on Malthus' teachings. Includes a link to an online version...
Other
China Vista: Recipe Corner
An interesting bilingual English-Chinese website with introductions to the histories of various cuisines in China, recipes from those regions, and lessons on basic Chinese cooking skills.