There's nothing as satisfying as a crunchy carrot or a juicy apple! Teach your middle and high schoolers about healthy eating habits with a set of nutrition activities. After analyzing the model of the food pyramid, learners apply the...

Recipe makeovers, healthy alternatives, quick tips for a nutritious lifestyle...this 187-page document has it all! Don't miss a thorough packet of workshop activities and handouts designed to support your teaching of the...

Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners...

A salad of nutrition-themed videos can be enjoyed by your health class as a wrap-up to the nutrition unit. Groups select a topic and create a two-three minute skit or commercial to be filmed and shared. If you assign each group a...

Read about the building blocks of food and how to read food labels to make better choices about what you eat.

Use your knowledge of spreadsheets to analyze the calories and fat content of fast food choices. This project gives links to a USDA site and a final report format. A sample spreadsheet and grading rubric is also provided.

As your mom and dad always tell you, a healthy diet is important to good health. This project is designed to see what happens to mice when they are allowed to load up on sugary snacks. Do you think that they will gain excess weight? Do...

Considering price and smart food choices, plan out a healthy fast food meal.

Compare a sample fast food meal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPlate guidelines.

Mke and test a prototype of your healthy fast food meal.

Using the engineering design process, develop and market a healthy fast food children's meal.

Analyze a sampling of real data to determine how healthy fast food meals for children are.

Create an advertisement for your newly created healthy fast food children's meal.

Understand how portion size affects healthy eating habits.

Explore whether or not fast food companies should be liable for damages if their customers become obese.

Analyze feedback and think about how to improve your fast food children's meal.

Explore how attractive packaging sells kids meals at fast food restaurants.

Analyze a children's meal from a local fast food restaurant to confirm or deny the presence of fat, protein, simple carbohydrates (sugar) and complex carbohydrates (starch).

[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary to middle school students can learn from the resources here about food and nutrition. In particular is a lesson plan and worksheet on the food pyramid guidelines issued by the USDA in 2005.

Decide which of your children's meal options is best, and work with your team to develop a more detailed design proposal