US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Arthur Family Health: Nutrition
In this lesson, join Arthur and D.W. in a learning experience about proper diet and nutrition.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Health Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of health-related subjects. Focusing on all grades, teach students bike safety, first aid, a map of their mouths, and stress management. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
abcteach
Abcteach: Science: Health and Nutrition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary to middle school students can learn from the resources here about food and nutrition. In particular is a lesson plan and worksheet on the food pyramid guidelines issued by the USDA in 2005.
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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.
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...
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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 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 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.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Central: Health Lesson Idea Menu
Pecentral provides fantastic health lesson plans for teachers. The site includes a search menu which allows for category/age specific searching. Searchable topics include: alcohol, drugs, disease, community health, injury prevention,...
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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 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...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Health Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of health-related subjects. Focusing on all grades, teach students bike safety, first aid, a map of their mouths, and stress management. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Food and Calories Lesson Plan
This lesson plan from Access Excellence offers sample charts and an answer key which helps students guess the caloric content of a variety of foods and then check their answers.
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British Nutrition Foundation: Food a Fact of Life (11 14 Years)
A rich collection of eleven learning modules that cover a wide range of topics, including nutrition, diet and health, food science, agriculture, food preparation, food processing, food safety, and more. Modules have PowerPoints,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Health and Fast Food
This lesson focuses on the the impact of fast food on the American people. It features links to obesity statistics, PBS NewHour: "Fighting Fat," Rolling Stone: "Fast-Food Nation: The True Cost Of America's Diet," and New York Times:...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Science Ambassador Fellowship: Lesson Plans
This site gives many lesson plans for teaching middle and high school students about current and relevant science topics like autism, ADHD, Diabetes, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, birth defects, genetics, and more. The lessons are based on...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Physical Fitness Activity
Exercise must be performed regularly throughout life to achieve the benefits of physical fitness, wellness, and disease prevention. In this self-guided unit, you will be introduced to the components of fitness, principles of exercise,...
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Lesson Plan z.com: Lesson Plans
LessonPlanZ.com is an online resource for teachers to find lesson plans and other teaching resources.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: How Far to Mount Katahdin
Organized into 5 parts, this lesson combines physical activity with academic subjects including math, health, and geography. In part I, students calculate how many steps it would take to complete the Appalachian Trail. In parts II and...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Health (La Salud)
An exercise designed to teach Spanish-speaking ELLs about healthy eating and the vocabulary of food and nutrition. Students answer comprehension questions based on a short reading about losing weight. Instructions in Spanish; exercise in...
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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 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.