Identifying Oily Foods: Discovering Healthy Snacks

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

From a high-speed hand-washing lesson to identifying important nutrients in fruits and veggies, this resource has several activity ideas and worksheets for teaching food safety to your learners.

Are serving sizes for different foods always appropriate for what you need? For this hands-on activity, learners work in groups to estimate what one serving size of various foods are, and then evaluate their hypotheses by measuring real...

Learners investigate healthy snack foods. In this healthy snack foods instructional activity, students discover what good snacks consist off and how healthy snacking can improve health. They design the perfect snack machine using the...

Students choose healthy snacks. In this healthy foods lesson, students test the oiliness of different foods. Students review the food pyramid and discuss why it importance to be healthy.

Scholars discover the process of fortification with a lesson designed to boost personal health and wellness. To test the fortification process, small groups use a magnet to locate iron in bag of fortified cereal.  

How can you choose healthier foods by reading the nutritional labels? Your class will discover how companies market food items to make them enticing and how to check the food labels of those items to see if they are healthy. They listen...

Students analyze the effects of peer pressure and the media on their food choices. They describe the steps used in making healthy food choices, and practice saying no to unhealthy foods.

Students analyze the influence of peers and media on their food choices and recognize that they are responsible to make their own healthy food choices. They identify the steps in the decision making process and practice saying no to...

Students focus on the foods they encounter in their everyday lives and how these foods relate to the food pyramid. They recognize food vocabulary in the target language and write a school menu making healthy choices from the pyramid.