Health and Nutrition Lesson Plan: Learning Healthy Eating Habits With Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry

From examining how much sugar is in foods and looking at fruit and vegetable varieties to making mini rainbow tarts, this unit provides youngsters with a fabulous overview of proper nutrition and eating habits.

Get things cooking with the first lesson in this series on the science of food. Working in small groups, young scientists make and record observations about different mystery foods. These descriptions are then shared with the class and...

Assess your pupils' ability to identify healthy food choices in the final lesson plan of this series on food science. Given five different food labels, young nutritionists will rank them from most to least healthy, supporting their...

Help your class make sense of nutrition labels with the ninth lesson of this series. After explaining the different information provided on packaged food labels, perform an activity that demonstrates the amount of sugar in a single can...

Jack can't jump over the candlestick because he didn't eat a healthy breakfast. Without the energy he needs, he can't do the things he loves. His mom serves him a healthy breakfast and he's ready to go.

Baby Bear tries something new in this film. He eats a bowl of wholegrain cereal for breakfast. He shows that it’s a good idea to try new foods. If you do, you could find a new favorite!

Show this entertaining video of Cookie Monster and Wyclef sing about food. What a great way to introduce your class to Health!

Students complete activities with the book There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly.  In this literature instructional activity, students hear the story and recognize the animals. They create fly soup and discuss healthy...

What a treat! Help learners identify some of their favorite foods with this set of 24 picture cards. The set includes images of everything from pizzas and hamburgers to grapes and carrots.

students share their favorite healthy food, prepare and share recipes. Using construction paper, they create a banner advertising their favorite healthy food. Afterward, they create a 3-D replica of their healthy food and write the...