Students develop skills in making nutritionally-sound food choices. Keeping a food diary, they analyze their food intake using the food pyramid as a guide. Students identify and explain the relationship of nutrition to personal health...

Eating healthy can be a challenge, especially for people with special dietary needs. After learning about standard nutritional needs for adults, learners take on the role of a dietician and work together to create a menu for one of the...

Students explore fruits and vegetables.  In this nutrition instructional activity, students generate a list of all known fruits and vegetables.  Students cut out and compile pages for a weekly fruits and vegetable...

Students examine the Food Guide Pyramid, then keep daily food journals. They evaluate their current nutritional habits and create plans for developing healthier eating habits.

Students observe a video on eating habits, discuss their own habits, and then create their own food pyramid.  In this research lesson students go to a webpage and enter their personal information then they get a food pyramid...