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- 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.
- 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 4–5 Healthful Living)
- By Lisa Pastor.
- Fitness fun
- This lesson introduces fun cardiovascular exercises that raise the heart rate.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Healthful Living)
- By Sharon Serine.
- Fitness with a jumpstick
- The lesson includes a variety of activities for strength, endurance, and flexibility with the use of a jumpstick. Intervals of jogging and exercises of major muscle groups include an element of fun. The teacher's leading role adds intensity and excitement to these activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living)
- By Bozena Mielczak.
- Flipping frogs
- Using frog beanbags, students will demonstrate skill components of the underhand toss.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Healthful Living)
- By Steve Smalley.
- Focus on fruits, vary your veggies
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 2.3
- This first-grade lesson plan from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum teaches students how fruits and vegetables grow in gardens, provide nutrition their bodies need, and are naturally sweet and a better choice to eat than sugary foods.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living and Science)
- Food choice in our everyday lives
- This lesson 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.
- Food labels and serving sizes
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 5.3
- By reading the nutrition facts labels on the foods we find in the grocery store, we can make good decisions about which foods to purchase. This lesson plan for grade four, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students how to choose foods based on the information they find on the nutrition facts label, calculate the number of calories from fat found in a food, and understand the difference between a portion and a serving.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living and Science)
- From farm to table
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 1.5
- This kindergarten lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students that most of the products they use and eat every day come from agriculture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)
- From social drinking to dependence
- In this lesson for high school healthful living, students categorize behaviors into social drinking, problem drinking, and alcoholism. They then discuss the signs of early and late stage alcoholism.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
- By Allison Buckner and John Janowiak.
- Fun with fruits and vegetables
- The activities will help the student identify, describe, and classify fruits and vegetables and learn how each grows.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Suzie Overholt.
- Good medicine
- Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Leslie Ramsey.
- Growing cooties
- This lesson teaches the importance of washing hands to reduce the spread of germs. In this lesson, students will see mold develop over time on a potato as the result of handling the potato with dirty hands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living)
- By Ronda Odenwelder.
- Healthy and unhealthy foods: What's the difference? (Part 1)
- In I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science, page 6
- In this lesson, students build scientific models to help them conceptualize the energy (calorie) to nutrient ratio provided by various types of carbohydrates, thereby discovering complex carbohydrates and lean protein as being the superior choices.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living, Information Skills, and Science)
- By Karina Colón.
- Healthy and unhealthy foods: What's the difference? (Part 2)
- In I’m on a diet and proud of it: Nutrition through math and science, page 7
- In this lesson, students will participate in three investigations to discover food sources, as well as advantages and disadvantages of fats.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living and Science)
- By Karina Colón.
- Healthy body, healthy mind
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.5
- It seems that every year a new fad diet comes along that promises instant weight loss. With all the media hype, students believe what they hear. This fifth-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students that the best way to to stay healthy and lose weight is through good nutrition, portion control, and exercise.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
- Healthy choices, healthy lifestyles
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 3.3
- Physical activity is important to overall health and well-being, but often we don't exercise enough. This second-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students the importance of being physically active.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Healthful Living)
- Healthy choices: Part I
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.1
- We all like to eat snacks, but are our choices healthful? This fifth-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students about the food groups, the nutrients that make up foods, and how to make smart snack choices.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Healthful Living)
- Healthy choices: Part II
- In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 6.2
- Children's snack items can have high amounts of both fat and sugar. This fifth-grade lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students how to make wise and healthy decisions when choosing snacks and beverages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Healthful Living)
- 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.
