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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.

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.

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.

Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education: "Specializes in developing programs for youth to address health concerns like childhood obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy food choices, tooth decay, drug and alcohol abuse, unintentional injuries, and teen pregnancy."; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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.

Foundation of a diet: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 1; Wherever rice will grow in Southeast Asia, it is grown. Rice is one of the most nutritious and protein-rich grains that humans have domesticated from wild plants. Here, a woman is selling rice in an outdoor market in Hanoi. The round woven basket in front...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Dental hygiene: This black and white photograph shows a dark-haired boy with a freckled face. A dentist is standing to his side holding the boy's mouth open with dental tools to show rotten teeth.; Format: image/photograph

Juicy Juice Box: Students will be able to use their knowledge of volume and surface area through this fun, hands-on activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Sheila Martin.

Same age - food made the difference: A black and white advertisement to encourage balanced diets. There are three photos - A larger top photo that displays two different mice, one on the right is healthy looking and the one on the left is much smaller and looks very sick. Below that photo there...; Format: image/article

Young girl and young boy sitting at desks looking at one another while drinking from cartons of milk: In this black and white photograph, a girl and boy are sitting at their wooden school desks, looking at each other, while drinking milk from little cartons with straws. In the background, the walls are covered with student drawings of ocean scenes.; Format: image/photograph

Ashe County Cheese: Say Cheese! See how cheese is made in this factory in West Jefferson, North Carolina.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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.

Nutrition and the media: Cereal box consumerism: This lesson will offer your students the opportunity to explore nutrition and how the media impacts our consumer decisions. Students will design a cereal box and read about how the use of color, slogans, and prizes impacts buyers. This lesson plan is easily adapted for exceptional children and can be expanded and/or adapted to suit your students' needs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Healthful Living, and Mathematics); By Gloria Simmons.

Young boy holding a bat, ball, glove, and a carton of milk: A young boy can be seen in this black and white photograph sitting on some granite steps outside of a building. He is holding a carton of milk in his right hand. He is grinning so wide that his eyes are squinting. A “milk moustache” can be seen...; Format: image/article

Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

The beginnings of the new North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis: This is the construction site of the new North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina. According to the website, the campus will include the Dole-NC State Institute for Advanced Fruit and Vegetable Science; the UNC Center for Excellence in...; Format: image/photograph

Greensboro Children's Museum: Students will enjoy the hands-on learning activities that will teach them about their community, transportation, money, and more at the Greensboro Children's Museum.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Drugstore Display for the Benefits of Milk: This black and white image of a 1930s drugstore window shows a display advertising the benefits of milk. In the center of the display is a paper cut-out of a boy holding a huge bottle of milk. The writing on the bottle says, “One Quart of Milk; See What...; Format: image/photograph

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

The Health Adventure: A Health and Science Education Museum: Features information about the museum and its exhibitions. Teachers will find a free lesson plan for 4th and 5th graders about world climate change, reservations for school classes, and downloadable teacher visiting guide.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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