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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- M&M cafe
- Students will be divided into small groups and be required to come up with two balanced meals and one unbalanced meal using breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Healthful Living)
- By Barbara Money.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Percent of a number
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.10
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as fair planners ordering food for the Dixie Classic Fair. Students will calculate percentages to determine how much food to order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Activity: 16 de Septiembre
- In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 2.2
- Contact the local Hispanic cultural or resource center and establish contacts with Mexican immigrants. Have your students interview families, especially those with children of comparable ages and discuss how Mexicans celebrate the 16th of September...
- Format: activity
- Customer service jobs: Building skills for the future
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.9
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will research customer service jobs and determine what skills translate to good customer service. The lesson will conclude with a discussion of how these skills might apply in future careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Jen Presley.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Easter egg math
- Using colored Easter eggs, students will sort by color, count eggs, and graph data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Marie Messer.
- Foods of African Countries
- Students study the foods of African countries. In doing so, they learn the geographical locations of specific countries on the continent of Africa, the vocabulary of African food products, and the similarities/differences of food grown throughout the various physical terrains and climates of the continent.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills)
- By Barbara Gibson.
- 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)
- By Laurie Myers.
- Edible geometry
- Students will use food to demonstrate their understanding of the sectors and arc lengths in a circle.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
- By shari frederick.
- North Carolina's physical and cultural geography
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 1.3
- In this lesson students will make assumptions about the influence of geography on various aspects of historical human and cultural geography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Nutritional value unit integrated with Microsoft Works
- This unit is an example of how to integrate technology into the curriculum to alleviate teaching it in isolation. Students will use Microsoft Works to compare and analyze nutritional values from nonperishable food items.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
- By Gretchen Parrish.
- Habitat photo album
- Students will use digital cameras and explore the outdoors searching ecosystems for opportunities to take pictures of different habitats and the components that go into them.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Science)
- By Colleen Buchauer and Lesley Brooks.
- Biomagnification and bald eagles
- In this activity, students will study biomagnification by using paper cutouts to represent food containing chemicals eaten by fish. The students will then repeat this activity but as an eagle collecting fish. The amount of chemicals taken in by each eagle will then be compared to amounts taken in by each fish.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Elizabeth Caveny, Janet Carson, Heather Subleski, and Jeannie Galluzzo.
- Career research and writing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.2
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will learn about a career that interests them and then share what they learned in peer groups. Students will then write a letter to the Better Business Bureau stating why they should be given an internship in their chosen career.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Michelle Kimel.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett, Anissia Jenkins, and Sonya Rexrode.
- Making “Oobleck”
- The students will discuss what they think will happen when mixing specific ingredients to create an unknown substance labeled “Oobleck.” Next, the students will work together in small groups of four or five to create this substance. Finally, the students will individually illustrate and write one to three sentences describing the results.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Paige Hoffman.
