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Make Your Meal Matter
Students examine the calorie content of fast food items. In this adult health lesson, students discuss obesity problems in US. They apply the tips for healthy fast food dining in selecting a meal.
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How You Doing? How You Bean?
Students name 3 health benefits of eating beans. In this adult health lesson, students identify various beans they can get with their WIC vouchers. They discuss ways to adapt a certain recipe to their family's needs.
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Factors Affecting Plant Growth
Students determine the physical and chemical factors that affect plant growth. In this biology lesson, students explain the role of hormones in plants. They investigate how competition with other plants affect their growth.
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Steroids: The Hard Truth
Young scholars view a PBS "In the Mix" video about the use of steroids. They identify health risks, consider the emotional consequences of drug abuse and discuss the legal ramifications. They also research a variety of nutritional...
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Science: Conditions for Slime Mold Survival
Students perform experiments to determine the nutritional needs and physical space requirements for slime mold to survive. After formulating hypotheses, they seal the petri dishes and set up the experiment along with two controls. ...
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Beef Is Good For You
Pupils discuss as a class the need for a healthy diet. They bring in a food product and analyze the nutrition label. Using the labels, they complete a worksheet and chart the nutrients found in beef. They use a scale to see how close...
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Rainbow milk
This activity explores the sense of sight, nutritional needs, and the importance of milk and dairy in our diet. Students discuss color mixing, surface tension and rainbow milk. Students actively mix three colors of food coloring with...
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Grouping Fruits and Vegetable
Students identify the differences between fruits and vegetables. For this nutrition lesson, students identify the properties of fruits and vegetables and group various fruits and vegetables into categories.
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Eat A Rainbow!
Students demonstrate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition lesson, students identify and sort different fruits and vegetables by colors. Students list reasons why eating fruits and vegetables are important and...
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Our Choices Matter: What You Eat
Students will record their food choices for one week, noting calories, protein and vitamin content of foods using a given USDA website. Students will discuss whole class the important of proper nutrition and its role, and what happens...
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It's Fun to Eat Fruits and Vegetables
Learners identify the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition instructional activity, students view a picture of the food pyramid and identify where to find fruits and vegetables. Learners listen to a music piece...
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Money for Food
Students identify low cost, nutritious foods from each of the food groups. In this low cost nutrition lesson, students use the handout "Saving Money on Foods from MyPyramid" and work in groups to study grocery store ads to find foods in...
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Book Box
Students create a bookmark, book cover and book review for a book they read. In this nutrition meets literacy lesson, students read a book about food and complete creative projects based upon the book. Some of the ideas included in this...
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Talking about Food, Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Students explore foods. In this nutrition lesson, students chorally respond to questions about a kitchen PowerPoint, complete a Venn diagram about breakfast and lunch foods, and play a food Bingo game.
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Economics
Fourth graders read a poem about rice and identify its importance around the world. In this rice lesson, 4th graders read about the role of rice in various nutritional sectors around the world. Students complete two word problems about...
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The Food Pyramid
Students determine that humans need food to function properly. In this nutrition lesson, students discuss the food categories used in the food pyramid by charting the foods eaten in one day.
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Agriculture and Food
Students discuss the foods they eat and why they eat them. In this nutrition instructional activity, students determine what foods people might eat in Cyprus and create a traditional meal tasting five traditional recipes of...
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Food Pyramid
Students list and explain the five food groups and the recommended serving amounts. In this food pyramid instructional activity, students discuss the food pyramid and journal about their reaction to it. Students complete a...
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Food Poems and Base Words
Learners identify base words to decipher new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, students complete a graphic organizer while reading about food and nutrition. Learners discuss simple and complex endings when using words.
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Homemade Ice Cream
Students investigate nutrition by creating ice cream in class. In this cooking lesson plan, students define the ingredients in ice cream and discuss how they form together to create a delicious treat. Students utilize salt, ice, milk and...
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Frenzied Food: Fantastic Fuel?
Students infer the causes of obesity. In this health science lesson, students brainstorm ways improve to their diet. They write personalized journals with goals on how to live a healthy lifestyle.
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Form, Rhythm, and Melodic Motives: Fiber
Students examine basic song form and 4/4 meter. They sing a song about diet and nutrition while identifying examining the rhythm of the song. They discuss why fruit and fiber are important to health.
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What's the Shape of Your Diet?
Fourth graders discover a healthy diet. In this healthy diet lesson, 4th graders compare their typical diet with the recommendations of MyPyramid for Kids.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Students participate in activities associated with the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". They practice using new vocabulary and the days of the week. They create a book about what they ate on the different days of the week and how the...
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