Students discover the benefits of balanced nutrition. In this service learning lesson, students read Beatrice's Goat and create a poster featuring the Heifer International Project.

Students complete a unit with cross-curricular activities to learn about a healthy body and maintaining their health. In this health lesson, students complete 8 lessons to learn about good health, a healthy diet, healthy foods, healthy...

Students participate in an experiment to understand how plants get nutrients. In this plant nutrition, lesson students examine how colored water goes through the stem of a plant to the flower. Students discuss the parts of the flower and...

Students study cancer and possible preventative measures.  In this cancer lesson students study the claims on food labels and ways to lower your risk of cancer. 

Students use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid lesson, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups.   Students participate in cross curricular activities...

Students work in groups to increase nutritional awareness.  In this health and fitness lesson plan, students travel to various stations and complete the task on a body composition card. 

Students become familiar with portion control.  In this healthy habits instructional activity, students create a meal using pizza and toppings.  Students continue adding toppings and cutting away portions until there is none...

Students brainstorm hazards in the kitchen, and categorize them. They develop a checklist that could be used by an inspector to evaluate a home economics foods laboratory. They create a recipe while using proper lab and safety procedures.

In this nutrition worksheet, students investigate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables of different colors 5 times a day. Students complete 8 pages of activities such as menu planning, shopping lists, word search, word...

Students play together and learn together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students partake in any of the 10 listed here in order to explore healthful activities and foods.

Learners explore the wonders of bugs. In this bug lesson, students examine various types of bugs. Learners make crafts, sing songs, discuss nutrition, and investigate different types of insects.

Students explore the climate and food sources of Ghana.  In this lesson on climate students view diagrams of global convection and complete a convection experiment.

After preparing baked potato nachos, the class views a PowerPoint about healthy food choices and takes notes on an accompanying worksheet. Although the PowerPoint is educational, the majority of the time is used for preparing and...

Students use the Internet to research the culture of British food. They determine the most common foods found in a full English breakfast, and whether they think the foods are tasty or not.

Students examine Dietary Guidelines for Americans developed by United States Department of Agriculture, analyze their diets for three days, and determine if their diets met the recommended dietary allowances (RDA) for their age and sex.

Students, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.

Students examine the different parts of a plant and each ones role.  In this exploratory lesson students complete several activities including a game of charades.

Fourth graders graph their estimations of caloric intake and caloric expenditures.

Students recognize a wide variety of fruit and have a greater understanding about the importance of fruit in their diet, and determine that some fruits' skins are edible and others are not.

Students identify base words to decipher new vocabulary. In this vocabulary activity, students complete a graphic organizer while reading about food and nutrition. Students discuss simple and complex endings when using words. 

Students discuss importance of eating five servings of fruits and vegetables for a healthy lifestyle, and identify bananas as an excellent source of energy.

Students create a portfolio throughout their middle school years on wellness. Students explore their awareness of the connections between health, physical education, and family and consumer sciences with particular emphasis on the areas...

Students examine cereal boxes for nutrition information.  In this nutrition lesson, students redesign cereal boxes to reflect their nutritional value. Students understand that some cereals contain too high a percentage of sugar...

Learn about food production by making cheese, seeing how a seed gets to a shelf, and discussing food safety. Budding agriculturalists complete several activities and learn about food production, biotechnology, food preservation,...