Want Ad: Healthy Eater

Students create a restaurant and plan for its customers and create menus.  In this healthy eating lesson, students create a multimedia project about the restaurant.  Students will devise their flyer, advertisement and menu. students will...

Early advertising campaigns touted e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to conventional tobacco cigarettes. However, that may not be the case. To understand how e-cigarettes, vaping and JUULing, affect the body, learners engage in a...

Students discuss the topic of body image.  In this body image lesson, students view a few people's body image thoughts and discuss how to help their people.  Students then write a poster and pretend press release, explaining to people...

Seventh graders, after brainstorming various ways to help our hearts and bodies stay strong and healthy, create advertisements for exercise to encourage others to participate in physical activity to stay healthy. They create ads to...

Students read food labels and understand their meaning. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students discuss healthy foods and snacks. Students understand the fat and calorie content of foods and discuss the regulations on...

Fifth graders examine the influence of advertisements on body image and purchasing. They discuss the psychology behind the ads and working in groups cut out words in magazine advertisements that could entice them to buy the product. ...

"Energy Plus!" from Together Counts is three days worth of lessons, discussions, and activities about nutrition. The materials help you teach youngsters about eating healthy and burning calories. Energy in and energy out. Included are...

Students review their height and weight ratios and visit a specific website listed in the lesson plan. They follow specific guidelines listed in the lesson plan for obtaining a positivie body image. They choose a guideline that they...

Fifth graders discuss what is meant by body image. In groups, they view a variety of magazine advertisements and identify how it encourages them to buy a specific product. To end the instructional activity, they group the people in the...

Can marijuana really hurt you? Three medical facts and three discussion questions prompt teenagers to consider the ramifications of using marijuana recreationally.