Keeping Healthy

Students discover how nutrition impacts major body systems. In this nutrition lesson plan, students brainstorm how they think the digestive system works and discuss how essential nutrients impact major body systems. They work in groups...

Students discover the value of sustainability within our ecosystem. In this ecological lesson, students discuss the importance of a food cycle in our society, and how humans can improve the conservation of a healthy ecosystem. Eventually...

What are commons and how do we take care of them? This is the driving question in which scholars answer through grand conversations, brainstorm sessions, and small group field trips to collect data. Once your class has completed this...

Students discover the four main food groups by categorizing their own diet.  In this healthy eating lesson, students utilize a chart with pictures of food to identify which food belongs in which food group.  Students discuss why eating a...

Students investigate the specific elements found in food that keep us healthy.  In this healthy eating lesson, students identify proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins as part of a healthy diet when consumed in moderation....

Students investigate consumer math by participating in a nutrition exercise. For this global food lesson, students examine a world map and identify locations in which hunger and food scarcity are a problem as well as where food is grown...

Students examine newspaper and magazines to determine the differences between healthy and non-healthy foods. Working in small groups, they design three nutritious meals on paper plates using the food section of the newspaper or...

In this pulse rate learning exercise, students look at the six pictures of the girl sleeping, jogging, reading, walking fast, sprinting, and walking slowly. Students then write the one of the pulse rates for each picture.

Students explore plant life by creating their own gardens in class. In this food growing lesson plan, students discuss the types of gardening methods Native Americans used in order to keep healthy. Students plant corn seeds in their...

Students explore how muscles work. In this health lesson, students identify how the blood supplies muscles with oxygen. Students participate in an online activity to reinforce the concepts.