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Nutrition
Seventh graders describe the healthy choices about food. In this nutrition instructional activity, 7th graders use the food pyramid to help them in making nutritious choices. Students discuss their diet and talk about how it can be...
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What Are Calories?
Students examine calories for the human body. In this calorie lesson, students explore the energy expenditures needed for different types of activities and how many calories are needed to support daily functions.
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Healthy Eating
Learners examine healthy diet. For this health lesson, students use Online resources and provided web links to research the effects of diet on the body.
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Meal Plan for an Older Person with Diabetes
Pupils plan a healthy meal for elderly diabetics. In this nutrition lesson, students practice planning a healthy meal by creating a meal plan for an elderly diabetic patient. They learn the importance of controlling diabetes through diet.
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Food Preferences and Healthful Eating
Learners discuss healthy eating habits. In this food preferences lesson, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant. Learners role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.
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Fruits and Veggies More Matters: Teen Lesson
Students study the importance of increasing their fruit and vegetable consumption. In this healthy diet instructional activity, students study the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables based on their age, sex, and activity level....
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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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Total Daily Calories
Students explore the concept of calories. In this calories lesson, students calculate their Basal Metabolic Rate. Students determine the number of calories they burn each day. Students use a conversion factor of fat to calories to...
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Introduction to Nutrition
Young scholars investigate the five food groups. For this nutrition lesson, students track their food over the weekend, and see if they are eating healthy. Then young scholars get an opportunity to track their eating again to see if it...
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Animal Research
In this animals worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by choosing an animal and then researching information such as anatomy, diet, enemies, habitat, and reproduction.
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Healthy Foods
In this healthy foods coloring worksheet, students color all of the foods that are healthy. They put an X on the foods that are not healthy. Finally, students circle their favorite fruit. There are 12 pieces of food on the page and the...
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Beginning Matching-- Food Part 2
In this word and picture matching worksheet, students draw a line from 11 pictures of common foods to the words that name each one.
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Food Descriptions
In this health worksheet, students look for the right descriptions to describe the food items in the pictures and answer the questions for each one.
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Bank On It ! Worksheet: Food
For this health worksheet, students study 10 terms in a word bank which pertain to healthy eating and avoiding saturated fats. Students fill in the blanks in a paragraph so the sentences make sense. The words in the word bank are not...
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Meet Your Meat
In this diet learning exercise, students read and examine meat products and record various facts that include production, consumption, and sale of meats.
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The Tween Scene
For this diet worksheet, students examine the dietary requirements for young teenagers and compare it to the allowances for children or adults.
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Beef Taco and Cheese Pockets
For this health worksheet, students examine the recipe for cheese pockets and beef tacos. They could then prepare the recipe by cooking them.
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Let's Go Shopping!
In this nutrition worksheet, students investigate the need for a balanced healthy diet by making a shopping list. Students cut out 24 grocery items. Students paste desired items in the grocery cart and color all the pictures.
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How Do You Like Your Sandwich? --class Bar Graph
In this math worksheet, students participate in a group bar graph activity. Students survey their classmates on favorite sandwich choices: peanut butter and jelly, grilled cheese or meat. Results are plotted on a bar graph.
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Staying Healthy
In this health worksheet, 5th graders read the paper that is about the nutrition needed. They focus upon the guidelines set for dietary allowances.
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Fruits and Vegetables are our Friends
In this health worksheet, students find the words related to having a healthy diet of fruit and vegetables. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Nutrition
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are related to the breakdown of molecules in food for energy. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Bulimia Cross Word
In this health activity, students find the words that are associated with the disease of bulimia and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Where Food Goes
In this biology activity, students find the words that are associated with the digestive system and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.