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4-H Advanced Food Science Activity Pages
In this 4-H food science worksheet, learners examine how food works in the body, find out about food preservation methods, and investigate careers in the food industry. They complete a word search, practice food photography, answer true...
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Looks Good Enough to Eat
Students examine food photography and the different techniques used by food stylists to make foods look appealing in advertisements. After learning some of the tricks of the trade, students plan and shoot their own food advertisements.
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Lunch Food? Mmmm! Mmmm! Good!
Examine how nutrition plays an important role in our lives by conducting online research and developing lunch menus that satisfy nutritional requirements set up by the United States Department of Agriculture. Students download recipes,...
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Healthier Food Choices
Fifth graders create healthy menus. In this nutrition lesson plan, 5th graders research healthy eating options using the Internet, and design a personal food pyramid.
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4-H Food Science- Advanced Activity
In this advanced activity food science instructional activity sets, middle schoolers complete a food find word search puzzle, and practice food photography as they investigate it as a career. They examine food preservation methods...
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All About Me
Pupils use a digital camera to take pictures of various faces. They then sort pictures according to eye color and create a graph. Students draw pictures of themselves on the screen using specified tools and colors. They choose hair...
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Food Advertising Tricks
Young scholars recognize techniques used to make food look appealing on television and in advertising, and explore the separate elements that compose media messages and products.
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Food and Nutrition
Third graders discuss the benefits for maintaining good nutrition and a well balanced diet. They categorize foods into the correct food group, decide if a meal is balanced, and create a full day menu which demonstrates what they have...
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Life Skill Communication
Students use digital camera to document the needs for daily living. In this life skills and visual arts lesson, students create class books that include photographs of everyday objects that they use in their home, school and personal...
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Seminole Traditional Foods
Young scholars will identify and label Seminole foods in Miccosukee (native language) and English. They construct a chart on traditional Seminole foods and prepare a traditional Seminole meal.
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How Foods Bonds Our Diverse Background
Students have a better understanding of how food choices reflect our cultural background. They reduce a recipe to the correct serving size.
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Seed to Plate
Students record the development of a garden on digital cameras and research the nutrition that comes from growing food in a garden. In this garden and nutrition lesson plan, students also explain to younger students the importance of...
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Pizza Muffins & Podcasting
Students investigate life skills by participating in a voice recording activity. In this baking lesson plan, students identify the ingredients needed to create pizza menu items and the steps which should be taken to bake them. Students...
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Recycling and Composting
Students set up composting sites that allow food scraps and paper to be recycled by nature. They are introduced to one aspect of recycling; composting. Students see how God recycles as the worms change garbage into something that brings...
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Around the World in 180 Days
Where did I come from? How did I come to be in this classroom? Using curriculum from Kidspiration, class members research the homelands of their ancestors, as well as the journeys that began from many parts of the world and ended with...
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Language Arts: Scavenger Word Hunt
Participate in a scavenger hunt to find objects beginning with a particular letter sound and take digital photos of them with your scholars. Using software, they find word pictures beginning with particular letters and locate picture...
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Habitats
First graders investigate animal habitats. For this habitats lesson, 1st graders visit the woods to identify examples of food, water, and shelter that animals use to survive. Students complete a worksheet.
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Take a Hike!
Students explore the benefits of staying active by going on a hike. In this physical education lesson, students discuss the concept of a hike, where a good place to hike is and what types of foods are necessary to stay nourished....
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Photography and Composition
Students examine the techniques and principles of photographic composition using various scientific tools such as a camera, a digital computer scanner, and a computer.
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No Need To Be Puzzled About Me
Fourth graders investigate acrostic poetry by researching the Internet. For this poetry writing lesson, 4th graders complete a worksheet detailing their personal activities and interests. Students view the form of an acrostic poem and...
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Everything American
Eighth graders complete an American slideshow. For this American culture lesson, 8th graders take digital photographs of things they believe contribute to American culture. They create a slideshow showing these photographs.
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Health: The Skeleton with a Message
Students identify human muscles and bones from a cardboard skeleton, named "Mr. Skelly." Using dialog balloons as props, the teacher holds up advice from Mr. Skelly, such as noting he drinks milk to keep his bones strong. The lesson...
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Nineteenth Century Family Portraits
Students compare two nineteenth century family portraits using historical data, statistics, and historical context. Students analyze their own family pictures adjusting the criteria to the current decade. Lastly students study the...
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Floating and Falling Flows
Students discover fluid dynamics related to buoyancy through experimentation and optional photography. Using one set of fluids, they make light fluids rise through denser fluids. Using another set, they make dense fluids sink through a...