Healthful Living Education — Grade 4

Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism

This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living Education, and Mathematics)

By Gloria Simmons.

Salt trading in Asia

In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the mineral salt from a variety of perspectives — scientific, geographic, and cultural. The lesson incorporates images of salt production in Nepal and Vietnam, and may be used with grade 4 or grade 7.

Format: (grade 4 and 7 Science, Healthful Living Education, Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)

By Edie McDowell.

Spreadsheets for dinner

Students will identify spreadsheet terms, create a spreadsheet about nutritional content of foods, and add the columns of the spreadsheet.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living Education and Computer Technology Skills)

By Laurie Myers.

Lesson plans on the web

What is the best chip?

In this lesson, from Illuminations, students use data analysis to seek answers to the types of questions often posed by consumer agencies and people who work in sales and marketing. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics and Healthful Living Education)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics