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.

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

Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions.  In this personal health lesson, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations.  Students complete the "Rate That...

Are serving sizes for different foods always appropriate for what you need? In 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...

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.

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 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 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 study the Spanish language, learn about the food pyramid, and create a food menu in Spanish. In this Spanish and food pyramid instructional activity, students learn Spanish words for specific food vocabulary and study the food...