Students participate in a game to identify healthy foods. In this healthy foods lesson, students move around the game board going forward on healthy foods and back on junk foods.

Students discuss harvesting pecans. In this healthy habit lesson, students look at ways to pick pecans from the ground without causing back strain. They invent devices to harvest agricultural products. 

Students demonstrate their understanding of a body's need for calcium by constructing healthy diet habits with calcium rich food.

In this healthy body worksheet, students circle the correct answer for the questions about taking care of a human body. Students complete 5 exercises.

Students identify the components of a balanced diet and their importance to good health. Students research their favorite types of fast food to determine how healthy they really are. Links to websites of popular fast food companies are...

Students explore the food pyramid and healthy eating. After discussing the five healthy food groups, students participate in activities to demonstrate the benefits of healthy food groups. They play games to discover the benefits of...

Students design a meal plan with healthy foods based on the food guide pyramid. In this nutrition lesson plan, students identify healthy and unhealthy choices, watch a PowerPoint, and complete a group activity based on the food pyramid.

Students examine different healthy behaviors and choose one of their own that they would like to change or improve.  In this healthy lesson students write a letter to themselves that they are going to make a change and why it is...

Students study the importance of a healthy diet.  In this weight control instructional activity students divide into groups and  develop a healthy lunch menu.

Middle schoolers perform healthy water practices by discussing and demonstrating acts of philanthropy. In this healthy water lesson plan, students read an article on how we can keep water clean, and create a LITWIS activity.

Student develop the importance of a healthy friendship. For this healthy friendship lesson , 4th graders participate in role-playing and enhance their interpersonal skills as well as their life skills.  Students...

Eighth graders experiment to identify the nine factors needed for plants to grow healthy. They choose one of seven topics to research and develop an experiment based on scientific method, and complete oral and written reports based on...

Students investigate healthy eating by choosing a variety of foods.  In this personal health lesson, students read the story Big News! Straight from the Heart, and discuss which characters ate which foods.  Students list other...

For this healthy diet worksheet, students read a text about a businessman who routinely eats an unhealthy breakfast. Students answer 5 true/false questions and then write a conversation between the man and his doctor.

Learners study the essential nutrients for our bodies.  In this healthy choices instructional activity students complete several activities which includes research and a presentation. 

Seventh graders read articles about the Blue Zones, life expectancy and healthy and unhealthy habits of people around the world.  In this Current Events instructional activity, 7th graders participate in class discussion of key...

Students examine the calorie content of fast food items. In this adult health lesson plan, students discuss obesity problems in US. They apply the tips for healthy fast food dining in selecting a meal.

In this well-designed nutritional activity, students are given the opportunity to create their own daily food record, compare their nutrient with minimimun requirements, and think critically about their own food choices. Materials and...

Young scholars identify the five basic food groups. They use their knowledge of the food pyramid to plan a full meal that incorporates at least one serving of food from each group. Pupils classify their ingredients according to the food...

Sixth graders learn about the colon and what it does. In this lesson plan about digestion and the colon, 6th graders analyze what this organ's job is. Students complete four activities where they explore the importance of fiber, the...

In this online/interactive worksheet about walking for exercise, students read about the benefits of walking their pets and answer multiple choice comprehensive questions. Students answer four multiple choice questions.

Students role play scenarios about making smart sexual choices. In this health instructional activity, students discuss the consequences of sexual decisions they make when they are teens. They analyze how these can affect their future...

Students visit different departments at a local hospital to see how machines help peoples such as the CAT scan machine. They build a model of such a machine that shows how patients are moved in and out of the machine.

Students design a balanced school menu or a healthy snack vending machine. Students create a colorful wall display. Students demonstrate about food groups on a spreadsheet. Students answer a survey on what foods to eat and why.