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Essential Nutrients - Daily Guides
List the recommended dietary guidelines and explain their function and implementation. (The guidelines are listed below) National Standards 14.3.1 Aim for fitness Aim for a healthy weight Be physically active each day
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Introduction to the Food Pyramid
Students review information on the food pyramid, either in printed works or on the Internet, to research healthy eating habits.
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How History Changed the Way We Eat
Students participate in a instructional activity that is concerned with the history of the food pyramid and how it evolved and changed into its modern state. After being presented with the information they conduct classroom discussions...
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Eggs, Egg Test, Day 6
Third graders complete a test demonstrating their knowledge of the study of eggs.
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Vegetarianism
Students classify ways to stick on a vegetarian diet. Students survey the reasons why others make it or fail on these types of diets. Students aim to improve their understanding of vegetarianism.
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FACS: Sanitation & Food - Support Services (HST)
Students discuss the importance of proper food handling and sanitation by workers to ensure health and wellness. After watching a demonstration, they discuss how importance hand washing is to stop the spread of disease. To end the...
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Egg Toss
This cross curricular lesson involves eggs. Students read about eggs. A counting game involving an egg carton and ping pong balls (eggs) is played as students toss balls into numbered egg carton cups and adding their score. Students...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Health and Nutrition
Students, while extensively reviewing the vocabulary terms on the board, examine basic food groups along with their food labels to help maintain a healthy dies for proper health.
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Ground Beef Experiment
Students identify what ground beef is and the difference in fat, flavor and moistness between the three types - regular, lean, and extra lean. Then, they conduct an experiment to compare the effect of pan frying
between three different...
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Nutrients In Our Foods
Students use the Internet to learn of, and research, information on health and nutrition. They study the six essential nutrients and explore the Food Pyramid.
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Fat - A Concentrated Energy Source
Students study fats as a necessary part of a balanced diet. They match foods with visuals showing the amount of fats in each. They compare lunches and how substitutions of various foods can effect the fat content of each meal.
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Kids for Conservation: Water Conservation Winter
Students rotate through various hands on and critical thinking activites designed to show the amount of water actually used by various people, companies, etc..., and helpful ways of conseving water.
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Frightening Factory Farms
Students discuss existence of and conditions on factory farms, and identify alternatives to factory farms that provide sustainable solutions for food production and environmental safety.
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Climbing the Pyramid
Students examine the Food Pyramid to discover the foods they need to eat to have a healthy body. Using food brought to class, they must place the food in the correct category in the pyramid. In groups, they test food samples for fat...
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Managing Nutrients in Livestock Manure
Livestock managers reinforce math and science skills while learning about the nutrients found in manure. They predict which animal produces the largest amount and which animal's manure contains the most nitrogen. Finally, they compare...
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Calorie Countdown
Students identify the advantages of a healthy diet and exercise plan. In this health lesson, students bring in labels of different food products and calculate the amount of calories each serving is. Students keep a food diary to keep...
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How Do Foods Help Our Bodies
Students investigate the specific elements found in food that keep us healthy. In this healthy eating lesson, students identify proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins as part of a healthy diet when consumed in moderation....
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Lesson 4 Buy Safe Food Put Food Away Safety
Learners explore proper food handling. In this food safety lesson, students examine proper cold food storage, hand washing, and methods to combat foodborne illnesses.
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How Much Nutritional Value Does Rice Really Have?
Fifth graders see the nutritional value of rice. In this healthy eating lesson, 5th graders view the Food Guide Pyramid and the number of servings one is supposed to eat in each food group. They focus on rice and its benefits for the body.
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Why is Rice Good for Us?
Third graders explore why rice is good for our bodies. For this nourishment lesson, 3rd graders review the food pyramid and discuss serving sizes. Students discuss the different ways rice is used in food. Students use uncooked rice to...
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Food Pyramid
Young scholars list and explain the five food groups and the recommended serving amounts. In this food pyramid lesson, students discuss the food pyramid and journal about their reaction to it. Young scholars complete a building block...
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Fatty Food
Students explore nutrition by participating in a balanced diet activity. In this eating habits lesson, students analyze their own diets and discuss the foods they have eaten that day. Students utilize grocery bags, scissors, Ziploc bags...
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PICKING PEANUTS
Students create sentences, using words printed on pictures of peanuts. They are explained that the peanut is not really a nut, but a legume, related to beans and peas. Students are also told that the first peanuts grew in Brazil. They...
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Food Safe Consumer
Learners explain how to prepare and keep food safely. In this health science instructional activity, students research common mistakes and tips for maintaining a clean kitchen. They identify main causes of foodborne diseases.