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Food Safe Consumer
Students explain how to prepare and keep food safely. In this health science lesson, students research common mistakes and tips for maintaining a clean kitchen. They identify main causes of foodborne diseases.
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Eating for Your Future
Students brainstorm ways to live healthy. In this health science lesson, students recipes that are healthy and appealing. They compile all recipes and develop a class cookbook.
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Adolescence: Springboard to Lifelong Bone Health
Students discuss bone health. In this health lesson, students talk about foods and activities that can foster strong bones. Students explore ways to defeat obstacles to bone health.
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What's on Your Plate?
Students analyze the calorie content of food. In this health science lesson, students discuss how excess calories affect our body. They write a healthy meal plan for their family.
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Protein
Learners examine protein, what it is and how it functions in the body. In this protein lesson students study the food pyramid, what a protein is and what it does.Â
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Breakfast Venn Diagram
What are your youngsters' favorite breakfast? They examine a Venn diagram with pictures of three breakfast preferences: grits, cereal, or eggs. Then, have them place their initials in a space to indicate favorite choices. This is an...
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Weekly Food Intake
In this diet worksheet, students record their weekly intake of both healthy foods and snack foods. Students draw the food they've eaten in the specific box that represents how often they eat that food.
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If I Was a...? Worksheet: Food
In this types of food worksheet, learners choose a type of food to be and then pretend they are that food to answer the remaining questions.
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What I Ate Today
For this menu planning worksheet, students use a large circular chart with 5 categories of foods to record one day's diet. There are no examples and the labels "food for growth" and "food for energy" may be confusing.
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Nutrition Word Search Puzzle
For this health worksheet, students find the words that are in the word search puzzle that focus upon the vocabulary that is from the theme of the sheet.
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Crack the Secret Code-- Health Activity
In this health worksheet, students learn about proper diet and exercise by reading the cartoons and deciphering a secret code about health.
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Food Likes and Dislikes (2)
For this health worksheet, learners match the food with the correct face that represent the food preference that matches with emotion.
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Colorful Foods
In this literacy worksheet, students find the colors of different foods and color them correctly. They could also label the foods according to their kinds.
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Anorexia
In this word search instructional activity, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to anorexia in teens. There are 28 words in the puzzle.
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Meal Planning For the Family
Learners study recommended dietary guidelines and explore the food pyramid. They create a profile of foods eaten to determine how well their diet matches the food guide pyramid suggestions. Students plan meals for their family for...
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Health
Middle schoolers comprehend that a balanced diet help them to stay healthy. They discuss the importance of exercise to stay healthy. Students identify healthy and unhealthy lifestyle choices.
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Eating a Nutritious Lunch
Young scholars identify the types of foods and snacks they eat for their lunch. In groups, they identify healthy foods along with unhealthy foods. They design a new lunch menu using only healthy food and identifying which food group they...
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Dietary Fiber Introduction
Students identify fiber from foods, its sources and function in the body. They also the importance of fiber in the diet and good food sources that one can eat. Finally, students discuss water and its importance with eating fiber and...
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You Are What You Eat!
Students evaluate information on various websites in relation to health concepts and healthy dieting in this technology-based High School Health lesson plan. Emphasis is placed on the use of small cooperative learning groups and the...
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Someone Is In The Kitchen
Students investigate the lifestyles of the Native Americans and look at a recipe found on a website. They read the recipe and pay attention to the measurements. They differentiate between the various measures in order to apply them to...
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Dissecting Diets
Students practice making comparisons and evaluating claims regarding different suggested dietary plans using their knowledge of Biological, scientific facts. This lesson can be accomplished individually, in small groups, or in a think,...
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Where Do I Fit In The Food Pyramid?
Students discuss how their daily diets fit into the dietary guidelines set out by the food pyramid. They write a paragraph describing good health habits and identify areas where their personal diet can be improved.
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Why Walk?
First graders listen to the book Yummers. They use the food pyramid to evaluate what Emily Pig ate during her walk and find out why her walk made her sick. They participate in a walking game.
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Drive-Thru Nutrition
Students research fat and calorie content of various food items at 12 popular fast-food restaurants. They compare the foods and create a day's worth of healthy menus using food from those restaurants.