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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Street food
In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 8
“Street food” is generally freshly made, inexpensive, and readily available throughout urban areas of Southeast Asia. Here, bowls of prepared foods bare stacked high on a round tray which is suspended by ropes carried on a shoulder pole by the...
By Lorraine Aragon.
The Changing Face of Mexico
Essays and activities exploring Mexican culture, past and present. Includes historical perspectives, classroom activities, and recipes.
Format: book (multiple pages)
Constructing a food web
Students will construct food chains and food webs in order to recognize the relationships between organisms.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Lynn Pearson.
Healthy vs non-healthy foods
Students will use Kidspiration software to classify healthy foods and non-healthy foods during our Food Guide Pyramid unit.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and Healthful Living)
By Michele Tipton.
Exploring the Food Guide Pyramid
Students will learn the 6 groups of the Food Guide Pyramid. Students will become familiar with how foods are categorized within the Pyramid. Students will also become familiar with serving sizes.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 )
By Elizabeth Carswell.
La comida y la salud
Focuses on food and health using the food pyramid in Spanish. Students consider food choices and share food likes and dislikes. This lesson should be used after introducing food vocabulary and me gusta.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Second Languages)
By Alison Yount.
Fast food frolics
Students will research nutritional guides from local fast food restaurants. Based on this research, students will compare menus for nutritional values and create healthy and unhealthy meal advertisement posters.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Healthful Living)
By Lisa Pastor.
Classroom food web
This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
By Kurt Oswald.
Food vendor on a street in Madurai, India
Food vendor on a street in Madurai, India
In Madurai, India, a man sells food from a small booth on a street. To his right, bags sit on the street next to a metal bowl that holds a slotted ladle. In front of him appears to be a stove with food frying on it, and a metal bowl containing food. To his...
Format: image/photograph
Graphing with food
Students will use a variety of foods to make graphs. Each food should be used for a separate lesson for a total of ten lessons.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Bunnie R. Brewer.
River trade
In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 14
This boat is docked along the Mekong River near Mytho. Such boats, propelled by outboard motors mounted on the back, are typical, medium-sized river and coastal island ferry boats in Southeast Asia. The waterways of the Mekong are the region's primary conduit...
By Lorraine Aragon.
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.
Ration canning application
Ration canning application
Format: image/ephemera
World War I propaganda posters
U.S. Government propaganda posters spelled out the reasons for American involvement in World War I and encouraged all Americans to help in the war effort.
Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
Colonial food items
Colonial food items
This photograph from the Alamance Battleground Historic Site in Alamance County, N.C. shows colonial-era tools for food preparation and articles of food that were important in the colonial era. These include a bowl of coffee beans, a wooden and metal hand-mill,...
Format: image/photograph
Sorting with Old Mother Hubbard
In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 6
In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard" to practice sorting objects according to their properties, and practice reading by reciting a familiar nursery rhyme while following the text.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Lisa Wright.
To eat or not to eat
After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will sort the foods the caterpillar ate by foods they need or don't need for their body.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
By Karlyn Sugg.
Food for Fighters
Format: video/video
Food service professionals: Working with fractions
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.2
This lesson for grade six demonstrates how an understanding of fractions is important in the food service industry. Students will use operations with fractions to determine how many recipes to make for a given scenario.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
Food preservation display
Food preservation display
This is a black and white photograph of a food preservation display, possibly at State Fair or Farm and Home Week. An older woman in a plaid dress is looking at jar of canned fruit or vegetables. Behind her is a wall of shelves full of canned jars of food....
Format: image/article