CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Choosing Healthy Foods
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Foods such as whole grain breads, fresh fruits, and fish provide nutrients you need for good health. But different foods give you different types of nutrients. You...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Green Light Eating
During this healthy foods lesson, students will sort foods into "healthy" and "unhealthy" categories.Students with then keep a food journal and reflect about their food choices.
Indiana University
Area 10 Math and Technology Project: Nutrition Labels
Lesson Plan involving all aspects of reading a nutrition label. Emphasizes math skills. Includes links to a teacher outline, student copies and reference materials.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nutrition Facts Labels
This lesson focuses on how to read nutrition and ingredient labels. A quiz is provided at the end of the slideshow.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 1: Where Are the Soda Trees?
Using film clips from In Defense of Food and a team activity, students explore healthy eating habits. Students get excited about becoming food defenders and begin learning how to differentiate between food (whole and minimally processed)...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 5: Supersized
In this lesson plan, learners examine portion sizes and how our eyes, as well as food companies, may deceive us in estimating a healthy amount to eat. Through popcorn experiments, along with a clip from In Defense of Food, students learn...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 10: Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
In this final lesson a clip from In Defense of Food shows students the vibrant food movement that is springing up across the country. In a final celebration, students share their final projects with the class and think about how they can...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 7: Rooting for Plants
This is the first lesson in the "Mostly Plants" section. Students are introduced to the amazing variety of plant-based foods and relate that to MyPlate, our national dietary guidance. Watching a clip from In Defense of Food and learning...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 3: Claim Game
Using a clip from In Defense of Food and photos of food packaging, students uncover five "tricky techniques" companies use to sell food products. Then, students create plans to eat foods instead of phuds to avoid the allure of clever...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 2: Chemical Cuisine
By exploring the ingredients in various foods and phuds, students experience first-hand how phuds are engineered to taste irresistible. Students learn and discuss a new Food Rule around eating foods with easily pronounceable ingredients.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 9: Lettuce Turnip the Beet
In this lesson middle schoolers explore plant-based foods enjoyed by their own and other families and cultures and how to face challenges to healthy eating.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 8: Color Your World
In this lesson, students play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and brainstorm ways...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curriculum Introduction: In Defense of Food
This section includes an overview of the curriculum, ideas for how to get started, and snapshots of the curriculum's key features. The "How to use this curriculum" section helps educators see how lessons are structured to be clear and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 6: Dia Beat It!
In this lesson students investigate the changing prevalence rates of type 2 diabetes and learn how this disease develops.
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 4: Don't Be Fooled
In this lesson, young scholars learn that phud logos are everywhere and easily recognized and explore more about the hazards of marketing. For the second "Capture It" project students take a photo or draw a picture of one phud that is...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Food and Nutrients
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Refusing one meal won't stunt your growth. But lack of proper food over a period of time can lead to malnutrition. That means the body is not getting enough...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Food Change [Pdf]
"The Food Change" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a girl who went to the doctor because she was tired. The doctor told her to eat healthy foods and not candy or cookies. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
Other
Classroom Connections: Wallace & Gromit Veggie Power
This downloadable teaching resource for Grades 2-3 has lessons on healthy eating designed to encourage children to eat more vegetables. Students explore their own and others' food preferences and learn about food groups.
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Pbs Ready to Learn: Abcd Eat Right! [Pdf]
Workshop lesson plan to help children understand the importance of healthy eating. Geared to both teachers and parents, this plan provides activities, book titles that are relevant, and charts and pictures to print out.
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Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Healthy Eating: Collection
Support healthy eating by using these resources in the classroom. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was a nationwide recipe contest for kids ages 8-12 that promotes cooking and healthy eating. Winners attended a "State Dinner" at the White...
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Susan P. Byrnes Health Education Center, Inc.: Learntobe Healthy
Learn To Be Healthy offers student activities and lesson plans for all ages.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Keeping the Nervous System Healthy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Activities that challenge your brain, such as working on a Sudoku puzzle, are good for the health of your nervous system. Just like you need to work out your body to...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How the Food You Eat Affects Your Gut
The bacteria in our guts can break down food the body can't digest, produce important nutrients, regulate the immune system, and protect against harmful germs. Shilpa Ravella shares the best foods for a healthy gut.
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Nutrition.gov
This is a comprehensive resource for information pertaining to health, nutrition and well being. Explore this site to learn more about food safety, food facts, health management and more.