Healthful Living Education — Grade 5

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)

By Janie Bourbina.

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 Healthful Living and Second Languages)

By Gina Benson and Laura Epting.

Resources on the web

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 Social Studies)

Provided by: National Council on Economic Education

Good food, good health

In this activity, students use Internet resources to explore ways in which food provides energy and materials for their bodies. In the elementary grades, particularly the lower-elementary level, children know that there are different foods — some... (Learn more)

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

Provided by: Science Netlinks

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)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics