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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Port Discover

Students will enjoy visiting this new hands-on science and health center which is geared to the pre-k to fifth grade curriculum.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Cloudy with a chance of... what?

Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Science)

By BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe.

Family gardening in rural North Carolina

This lesson for grade one uses a series of activities related to plants and gardening to help students learn about gardening, plant life, families, and making healthy choices.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living, Science, and Social Studies)

By Penny Willard.

Colorful fruit bowl

Students learn color theory by exploring color mixing. Students will use overlapping to show simple perspective in their picture.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)

By Marilyn Carter.

Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.1

In 1491, no European knew that North and South America existed. By 1550, Spain -- a small kingdom that had not even existed a century earlier -- controlled the better part of two continents and had become the most powerful nation in Europe. In half a century of brave exploration and brutal conquest, both Europe and America were changed forever.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

Resources on the web

Sorting foods

Students visit a website to play a game related to the food pyramid and sort foods using the categories of the food pyramid. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K and 2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nutrition & Physical Activity

Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control, this comprehensive website features information about healthful living through nutrition, physical fitness, and obesity prevention. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Center for Disease Control

Food Pyramid Power: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Students display their knowledge of properties of objects for sorting and creating patterns. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Try for Five

Students explore the many ways to decompose numbers and then build on their knowledge of addition and subtraction to find missing addends. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nutrition Cafe

Sponsored by the Pacific Sciences Academy, this is a fun, interactive site for visitors seeking information about nutrition and weight management. There are question and answer presentations, games about food basics, fast food, bone building, weight control,... (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Pacific Science Center

Pyramid Power

Students make sets of a given number, explore relationships between numbers, and write numbers that name how many elements are in a group. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Eating Patterns

Students sort pictures of food and create patterns. They also analyze a partner's patterns and extend those patterns. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics