Healthy Eating Lesson Plans

Learners understand the importance of good health and disease prevention. In this healthy eating environments lesson plan, students role play situations to explain the do's and don'ts of a healthy eating environment.

Students create a restaurant and plan for its customers and create menus.  For this healthy eating lesson, students create a multimedia project about the restaurant.  Students will devise their flyer, advertisement and menu. students will decide what clientele they want to attract.

Students explore healthy eating. In this healthy eating lesson, students discover how important it is to eat a helathy breakfast. Students draw pictures of a healthy breakfast, discuss healthy foods and sing songs about healthy eating.

Students explore the concept of healthy eating.  In this healthy eating unit, students review the food guide pyramid, map where the food comes from, and discuss what makes your body healthy. Students discover what allergies are and how serious they can be. 

Students devise their own scheme for encouraging healthy eating and discuss health eating. They prepare a talk for younger students from the government to promote healthy eating.

Students explore food. In this healthy eating lesson plan, students pick foods that are good choices for each section of the food pyramid. They work independently to choose food items that fit best in each category of the pyramid. This lesson plan includes suggestions for evaluation.

Young scholars discover the tell tale signs of a body that needs nutrients.  In this healthy eating lesson, students keep a food journal for a day and discuss with their class at what points they felt their body telling them something.   Young scholars decide on a creative project they will complete to demonstrate their understanding of healthy eating.

Students read food labels and understand their meaning. In this healthy eating activity, students discuss healthy foods and snacks. Students understand the fat and calorie content of foods and discuss the regulations on food manufacturers. Students study food labels and analyze them for their health rating. Students choose a food label and fill out a survey about the contents and complete a webquest.

Students discover how nutrition impacts major body systems. In this nutrition lesson, students brainstorm how they think the digestive system works and discuss how essential nutrients impact major body systems. They work in groups to research different body systems, and each group creates a poster and slogan to promote healthy eating.

Students watch an introduction slide show to assess prior knowledge of healthy foods. They listen as the teacher goes over the food pyramid and food groups. Students analyze a lunch they bring from home by tallying their lunch items on a copy of the food pyramid. Students create a slide show about healthy eating, and write menues for a healthy meal.