Healthful Living Education — Grade 5

Food choice in our everyday lives

Focuses on everyday foods and how these foods relate to the food pyramid. Students will recognize food vocabulary in the target language (Spanish) and will make healthy food choices by creating thinking maps, a school menu in the target language, and exploring food choices from around the world.

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

By Gina Benson and Laura Epting.

Identifying oily foods: Discovering healthy snacks

Using a drop of water and a drop of oil for comparison, students do food rubs to detect oily content in foods. The lesson culminates with a cookbook of healthy snacks.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living Education)

By Janie Bourbina.

Lesson plans on the web

Glyphs for all reasons

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn a powerful way to display data—the glyph. (Learn more)

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

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Good food, good health

Students use Internet resources to explore ways in which food provides energy and materials for their bodies. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Healthful Living Education)

Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Hey, mom! What's for breakfast?

Students work in cooperative groups to learn about food use throughout the world. They will discuss causes and cures of world hunger and use map skills to investigate the production and distribution of food worldwide. (Learn more)

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

Provider: National Council on Economic Education