There are lots of teachable moments built into planning for, and cooking a breakfast meal. Here is a lesson which allows your children to prepare a breakfast buffet together. Learners plan the menu, decide how much food they will need,...

Students plan appropriate diets for themselves and others using the USDA Dietary Guidelines. They indicate their average cost of food at home on a thrifty plan and prepare a one-week menu plan including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a...

Help your 2nd graders understand the difference between natural and man-made materials. They will sort breakfast food items into sources: store, factory, natural world, and farm. They will work together to classify, form conclusions, and...

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.

Investigate nutrition and the food pyramid. Fifth graders will use computer software to write a paragraph about nutrition. They will then diagram the food pyramid and gather and organize a collection of healthy recipes.

Students identify the benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast. In this nutrition lesson, students read food labels to identify foods that are low in sugar. Students create a healthy breakfast by using eggs and low-fat cheese.

Young scholars describe factors that influence one's food choices, explain how food choices reflect one's culture and ethnic background, identify ways that family members and friends may affect one's food decisions and preferences, and...

Students identify breakfast, lunch, and dinner foods. In this dietary awareness lesson, students draw pictures of their favorite foods and arrange the complete pictures on a bulletin board. Students discuss the details of their pictures...

Learners discuss their food preferences. Using a flannel board and food models students describe what they would like to eat for dinner. Learners compare their selections with their classmates. Students identify the nationality of ethnic...

Fourth graders study the food pyramid and photograph food choices from their school to create a healthy meal guide. In this food choices lesson, 4th graders study the food pyramid, photograph healthy food choices at their cafeteria, and...

Discuss helping with the family grocery shopping. View a teacher drawn map of a grocery store and discuss where the breads, meats, and dairy products are located. Practice categorizing foods as breads and cereals, fruits, vegetables,...

Student explore the local food in Japan. Pupils listen to the teacher's description of Japanese cuisine. In groups, classmates follow recipe instructions to create Miso coup and rice. They discuss the taste of Japanese food as they...

What are Dietary Guidelines? What are the basic principles of a sensible healthy diet? What do variety, balance, and moderation have to do with eating healthy. What are the food groups? There are a couple of activities in this lesson...

Students in a French II class identify food items that can be ordered in a cafe or restaurant. Students spend time reviewing new vocabulary terms then create a cafeteria menu for their school.

Students discover the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast. In this adult health lesson, students compare the characteristics of breakfast eaters and nonbreakfast eaters. They examine cereals for their fiber and sugar content.

Students explore where our food comes from. In this science activity, students discuss how much of our food comes from animals. Students construct a mobile.

Young scholars create mobiles that represent a day's intake or other criterion, such as healthy snacks, Milk Group foods, breakfast foods, etc.

Students, while reviewing an extensive vocabulary list on the board, identify basic food groups with the help of picture cards. As a group, they create a collage of healthy and unhealthy foods using pictures from magazines and newspapers.

Third graders view the food Power Tower and discuss the food groups.  In this food instructional activity, 3rd graders cut out favorite foods from magazines.  Students read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and record the foods...

Students explore reasons why breakfast is an important meal. In this healthy eating activity, students research the benefits of eating breakfast and create a cookbook of healthy breakfast items. Students establish a breakfast plan for...

First graders examine the food pyramid and how healthy food effects the body. They discuss what they ate for breakfast and identify what makes a food healthy. Students analyze the food pyramid, and cut out magazine pictures of food and...

A nice, neat PowerPoint accompanies this lesson plan, explaining each of the MyPlate dietary recommendations. Another PowerPoint gives the class the opportunity to apply the concepts of MyPlate on a worksheet. Recipes are provided for...

Sixth graders design farms with a bird's habitat in mind. In this farm lesson plan, 6th graders research how sun grown coffee destroys a bird habitat, and then they make their own farm with a bird's habitat being preserved. They then...

Students study different aspects of worms along with the process of vermicomposting by participating in a class experiment to study the time it takes for breakfast cereal to be eaten by worms.