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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Healthy foods = super kids: This lesson focuses on how the foods we eat affect our bodies in both beneficial and harmful ways. Students will learn that grains provide energy; vegetables are needed for healthy skin, hair and eyes; fruits help the body heal, milk builds strong bones and teeth; meat builds muscle and gives strength; and sweets, fats, and oils are high in calories and give few vitamins and minerals and do little to help our bodies grow.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Healthful Living); By Phyllis Bass and Rubetta Carr.

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.

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.

Soup's on!: This lesson integrates children's literature and math. The students will listen to "Stone Soup" by Marcia Brown and bring items from home to make "First Grade Soup." The children will use the items to create a graph and share information about their graphs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Vicki Rivenbark.

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.

Food makes a difference: This black and white photograph is of a poster showing how a good diet of nutritious foods makes a difference in children's growing bodies. On the left of the poster is picture of a boy who is naked except for a towel wrapped around his waist. On the right...; Format: image/article

Canning for country and community: In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies); By Melissa Thibault.

Edith Vanderbilt's relationship with estate families: George Vanderbilt’s marriage to Edith Stuyvesant Dresser in June 1898 precipitated a special celebration when the Agricultural Department won a tug-of-war competition with nursery workers, foresters, and Biltmore House employees and received a “handsome...; Format: article; By Sue Clark McKendree.

Camp Earth bound: Problem solving and finding for fun: Students will work together in small groups of four to six students to solve the following word problems. Their solutions will require them to practice interview techniques and create a database and/or spreadsheet of their results. This information will be the basis of the answers to the following eight word problems. Skills such as area, cost, calorie count, ratio, percentage and scale, as well as persuasive writing will be applied.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

From Caledonia to Carolina: The Highland Scots: In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.5; Many Scots immigrated to North Carolina due to growing population, changing methods of farming, and the defeat of the Highland Scots by English and Scottish forces in 1746. The first organized settlement of Highland Scots was in Cumberland County, where 350 people moved to in 1739.; Format: article; By Kathryn Beach.

Among the Tuscarora: The strange and mysterious death of John Lawson, gentleman, explorer, and writer: They've taken his clothes, picked the straight razor out of his pocket: one brave fingers it, touches the blade — bright blood springs from his thumb and he laughs. The pitch pine split by the women is ready, a clay pot full...; Format: article; By Marjorie Hudson.

Resources on the web

Dole 5 A Day: An interactive website that includes a cookbook, ideas for eating healthy, fun and games for kids ages 5 through 12. (Learn more); Format: website/activity; Provided by: Dole Foods

Action for Healthy Kids: Learn how to improve children's nutrition and physical activity to promote good health and the readiness to learn. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by:

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