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Lunchroom Trash
Students explore the amount of waste produced by humans. In this ecology lesson, students predict which lunch bag and its contents will produce the most waste. Leftover material is examined, amounts are recorded, and a bar graph is...
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Weight Control
Students study the importance of a healthy diet. In this weight control lesson students divide into groups and develop a healthy lunch menu.
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Teaching Nutrition Using the Food Guide Pyramid
Second graders explore how to make healthy eating choices. There are goals included for students to meet by the end of fifth grade.
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"The Pianist" As A Tool For Classroom Instruction About the Holocaust
Students watch "The Pianist" to gain insight on the Holocaust and World War II. They write an essay based on ideas from the film and read a variety of poems and writings from the time period. In groups, they discuss the diffuculties of...
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PowerPoint Presentations for Food II
Learners are shown a variety of PowerPoint presentations to discover the standards for their Food and Nutrition class. In groups, they analyze the way the body changes as it moves through life and its nutritional needs are ever changing.
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African Animals A-Z
African animals A-Z are on parade in this activity, which provides teachers with a year's worth of coloring and spelling sheets for little writers. Popular animals, such as dolphins and elephants, have their own coloring pages, as well...
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Life Processes and Living Things-Humans and Other Animals
In this fill in the blank worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions by identifying foods that contain large amounts of sugar, carbohydrate, and fruit acids and explaining their effects on the body.
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Canvas Transformations
Students transform the content of paintings currently in the collection hanging in the Utah Fine Arts Museum by using the four theatre techniques of storytelling, kinetics images, soundscapes, and ritual building.
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Money Management-Grocery Shopping for a Family Profile
Students investigate a family profile and design a menu plan. In this consumer science lesson, students plan and prepare a weekly menu based on a family profile.
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Food From Around the World
Students identify foods from around the world. In this multicultural lesson, students use Internet resources to research a specific country and the foods which are popular. Students collect a single recipe to combine with recipes from...
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Bikini Bottom Experiments
In this science worksheet, students read the description for each experiment and use their knowledge of the scientific method to respond to each of the questions. Then they write an experiment to test bubble power of the bubble gum...
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Fish Activities
In this fish activity worksheet, students learn a counting rhyme about fish. They then discuss the best way to care for fish and they learn 4 different types of fish. On the second page, students count lines of fish and color them a...
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Pumpkin Eye Lesson Plan
Students listen to the story Pumpkin Eye by Denise Fleming to enjoy the colorful illustrations and to learn about an important ingredient in a pumpkin squares recipe the class will be using. In this cooking activity, students assist the...
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Personal Hieroglyphs
Learners explore and compare hieroglyphic writing to the modern English alphabet through the creation of personal hieroglyphs.
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Minding Your Manners
Learners practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.
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Dietary Guidelines/Food Pyramid Test
Students review Dietary Guidelines and the Food Guide Pyramid. They take a quiz listing recommended dietary guidelines and explain their function and implementation.
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Fields of Candy Bars
Students research and write about the origins of the ingredients in candy bars. They taste them and describe what they are tasting. They use descriptive words to write a paragraph describing the candy bar. They research ingredients in...
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Consumerism - Labeling Lab With Convenience Food
Young scholars examine the differences between convenience food and food that has to be prepared in order to use it in another recipe. In groups, they make a calzone using only convenience food. After baking, they work together to make...
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Just What are you Eating?
Learners identify and articulate pros and cons of genetically modified foods (GMF) including references to scale of controversy worldwide. Students then identify where they might find GMFs in their diets, read different opinion pieces on...
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Food and You
Students identify why humans are dependent on natural resources and the problems associated with their use and demonstrate how humans affect their environment. They also describe the different components and natural resources that go...
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Descriptive Writing
Fifth graders develop compositions on self-selected topics. They choose a topic based upon their ability. Individual pupils earn points for each activity completed. Students use descriptive writing as they support their composition...
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Vocabulary; Praising Someone/Giving Compliments-1
In this foreign language worksheet, students select the best choice from three options to fill in the blanks in ten sentences. Each of the sentences is an example of a complimentary phrase.
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Present Perfect Verb Tense- Class Data Collection Activity
In this verb tense and data collection instructional activity, students find out about the life experiences of their classmates. They ask questions using the present perfect tense and the suggestions in a chart on the page. They record...
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The Euro: Classroom Exercises – Exchange Students Going to Europe
High schoolers explore ever-changing exchange rates. For this euro/dollar exchange rate lesson, students plan a trip to Europe and calculate their costs in euros and dollars.