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Basic Needs of Living Things-Lesson One

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the basic needs of living things. They observe a variety of living things and identify the basic needs of each living item. Students create food balls of peanut butter and nuts to feed animals. They hang their food...
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Plate and Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the health hazards of modern agriculture and how we can choose better food options.  In this healthy eating lesson, students identify different indigenous people in photographs and discuss what they might eat....
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Clues From the Past: Daily Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the ways different cultures gathered and made food. In groups, they read excerpts from primary sources about the food people in Mesopotamia liked to eat. They work together to make a batch of goat stew and a loaf of bread.
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Italian Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore Italian culture and food. They repeat phrases in Italian, watch a short video excerpt on Italian pasta, and repeat pasta names in Italian with a partner.
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Cultures of Our Nation

For Teachers K - 4th
Students bring in family items that represent their culture and present them to the class. In this culture lesson plan, students can bring in food, music, dance, pictures, and more.
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Household Pests

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in an experiment to show how germs are spread, by food, fingers and feces. They conduct a bacteria count using a colony counter.
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Grand Grocery Graphs

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students experience creating their own graphs on graph paper and the computer program "Graph Club." They approach this task by utilizing food as their primary source for the activities. In addition, they interact with their peers as they...
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Sweet treats, healthy treats

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this foods worksheet, learners cut and paste the foods into either the sweet treats box or the healthy treats box. Students cut and paste 6 food items.
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Where Did My Lunch Come From? A U.S. Regional Tour

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the five regions of the United States. In this social studies lesson, students discuss the regions and the states located in that region. Students discuss the types of food produced in each region and analyze a school...
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Do You Like Fish?

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL expressions of liking and disliking learning exercise, students work in pairs to converse about food. Students ask each other if they like each of 15 food items. Students answer: No, it's horrible/ Not very much/ It's OK/...
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All About Chocolate

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars list chocolate items, research the internet, and more to learn about chocolate. In this chocolate lesson plan, students also read books about the cocoa beans.
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Cooking Fun

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore a variety of methods for the measurement of dry, semi-solid, and liquid ingredients. Real kitchen utensils and food items are utilized in this lesson.
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Edible Rock Layers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use edible food items to conduct an experiment that simulates the movement, folding, and faulting of rock strata like sandstone, siltstone, limestone, and shale. Students then get to eat the experiment when completed.
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Money Problem Cards

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math worksheet, students solve the word problems that are related to purchasing different types of food items. There is one problem for each page.
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Picture Addition

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this picture addition worksheet, students complete a set of 4 problems, adding pictures of food items and writing sums.
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Fruit and Vegetable Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this worksheet focusing on cutting and pasting, students cut out small pictures of 6 food items and "paste" then into the appropriate shopping bag: fruits or vegetables.
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Multiplication Practice: Calculate Cost

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this multiplication worksheet, students use a table to calculate the cost of food items, 7 problems total. Answers included on page 2.
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Explore a Family Recipe Creative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the connections between food and culture by investigating the cultural influences, preparation, and historical ties of the food that people eat. They comprehend how geography and climate effects what people eat...
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Food Comparison PDF

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students are led through lessons to become familiar with the dietary recommendations of the government.
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Can You Count on Cans?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
How can a canned food drive be connected to math? It's as simple as counting and organizing the cans! Children demonstrate their ability to sort non-perishable foods into categories that include soup cans, vegetable cans, boxed items,...
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The good microbes

For Students 3rd - 5th
The question posed for the class to consider; What would decay and what would not? They read the short passage on decomposition and microbes, then mark the items that would decay after a two-week period. A scientific investigation idea...
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Lesson Plan 3: Great Book, Gross Book

For Teachers 6th - 9th
It's time for your scholars to become book reviewers! Start with a fun review of foods: are they good or gross? Learners apply these evaluation techniques to books, recording their thoughts on large pieces of butcher paper. Simply have...
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Primary PE Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners work on balance, strategy, and movement while playing a beanbag game. They review high fat and low fat foods and classify these foods while they play a game of "Low Fat Locomotion."
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Exploring the Food and Dining Patterns of Cameroon: Classification Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice using new vocabulary on the dining practices of Cameroon. Using classification techniques, they put words into different categories. As a class, they review and discuss the answers.

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