Healthy Living & Nutrition

Pre K - Grade 2

My Healthy Plate

Duration: 60 minutes
In this lesson, students categorize the foods they eat, explore healthy eating habits, and investigate the MyPlate food campaign.
*No cost

Freshest Fruits

Duration: 60 minutes
Students determine where fruits grow and their nutritional value by completing an activity to observe the size, shape, texture, and seeds of various fruits.

Who Grew My Soup?

Duration: Three 45 minute sessions
Students identify the source of the food they eat and investigate the processes and people involved in getting food from the farm to their spoon.
*No cost

Grade 3 - Grade 6

Bunches of Berries

Duration: 60 minutes
Students investigate a variety of berries, discover how and where they are grown, and explore their nutritional benefits.

Edible Numbers

Duration: Five 45 minutes sessions
Students develop a working vocabulary regarding food, categorize foods by their sources, examine grocery ads, learn about food production, and apply what they learned by analyzing foods they eat at a particular meal.
*No cost

Grocery Store Problem Solving

Duration: 60 minutes
Students use basic mathematical skills to solve problems related to the cost of food while integrating geography and nutrition to enhance learning. Students analyze grocery ads, assess the nutrition and cost of meals, and explore diets around the world.
*No cost

Grade 7 - Grade 12

Chain of Food

Duration: 45 minutes
Students will explore the path food takes along the Farm-to-Table Continuum. They will begin on the farm and investigate food safety issues during processing, transportation, at restaurants and supermarkets, and finally, in their own homes. Teams will identify how food can become contaminated along the continuum and develop and present strategies for preventing contamination at each step.

The Quicker the Better? Food Processing

Duration: 2-3 hours
Students explore different levels of food processing and the ways in which processed foods affect the health of our diets by looking at examples of foods from the grocery store and by closely examining food labels.
*No cost

Last updated January 7, 2025