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St. Patrick's Day Snack
First graders design a green snack menu from all four food groups for St. Patrick's Day.
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Bag Lunch
Students rate foods as safe or unsafe and follow rules for food safety to make them safer.
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Testing for Life
Students discuss food and the food groups and their organic nature. They test 3 different solutions and test for protein, starch and glucose. In addition, they create a master table on the board to collect all the teams results.
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Helpful Microorganisms
Students study how some microorganisms are helpful and practical in foods. They work with microorganism in a number of food, such as yeast in bread and yogurt.
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Nutrition Awareness
Students gain an awareness of nutrition. In this science lesson plan, students explore how to determine his or her ideal body weight, demonstrate familiarity with the food groups relating to kilocaloric content, estimate the basic...
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Quick Breads, Pancake/Waffle Lab
Pupils explore the bread, cereal, grain food group on the Food Guide Pyramid. They test recipes for quick breads which are high in carbohydrates and determine the purpose of each of the ingredients in pancakes or waffles.
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Menu Math
Learners follow the food pyramid to create a daily food budget. They research food prices online or in newspapers. They graph the amount of each food group included in their menus. They can also create a weekly food menu based on a fixed...
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Ariann's Nutrition Expedition Adventures Remembered
Fourth graders respond in their nutrition journals to a prompt about the importance of the five food groups.
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Mathematics Through Nutrition
Students plan a meal including shopping, preparing and meal and serving it. They become aware of different foods from different ethnic backgrounds and describe the displays in the store and why the items are displayed as they are.
Education Outside
Honey Tasting
Young scientists will be abuzz as they sample and compare the tasty treats produced by Apis Mellifera.
Science 4 Inquiry
Eukaryotic Cells: The Factories of Life
Eukaryotes include humans, animals, and plants. Scholars learn about the parts of eukaryotic cells. They design models of a store and match the correct function of each part to the function of a part of the cell. They review their...
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Daily Life in Spanish St. Augustine 1565-1763
How do we know so much about the past? A student-crafted presentation provides viewers with images of artifacts from St. Augustine, Florida that give historians and archaeologists clues into lives already lived.
Cloud Front
Socratic Seminar for: A Christmas Carol
Socratic seminars are a great way to encourage the development of critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills. And Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a perfect text for such a seminar. Use the questions in the packet to...
Science Matters
Photosynthesis Play
Photosynthesis seems nothing short of magic: a little carbon dioxide and water, add energy, and poof, you get food! A thorough, collaborative lesson teaches youth the process of photosynthesis thanks to a skit they perform with a group...
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Brown Bagging It
Students analyze brown bag lunches and choose appropriate foods to make a nutritious balanced meal. They examine the calorie and nutrient content of the chosen meal and modify the contents as necessary.
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Principles of Ecology
In this ecology worksheet, students will review 10 vocabulary words associated with the basic principles of ecology. This worksheet has 10 fill in the blank questions.
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Taste Buds
Students investigate taste buds. In this taste buds lesson plan, students identify the four basic taste buds and their locations on our tongue. Students participate in an experiment to investigate how our taste buds work.
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Land as a Valuable Resource
Students investigate why the soil is important to our lives. In this natural resources lesson, students have a farmer as a guest speaker. Students begin to understand how farmers use and protect our natural resource. Students write...
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The Affects of Environment on Native American Culture
Young scholars research the culture of the Native Americans. In this U.S. History lesson, students are given the major geological areas where the Indians lived prior to the arrival of the Europeans, then they create a notebook that...
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Meet One Picky Bird
Students complete a research project In this endangered species lesson, students use the "Think, Puzzle, Explore" method to learn about endangered species. Students research and write a report on the red-cockaded woodpecker.
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Understanding Theme with Fables
What is the moral of the story? Ask your class to read a series of fables from which the last line has been removed. After supplying this concluding statement, they must justify their responses. This could be used as an individual or...
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Early Childhood Nutrition
Students complete activities that focus on food and nutrition. In this food lesson plan, students sort foods into healthy and not healthy, categorize them into ground and tree sorts, draw their favorite foods, make abc books of food, and...
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Super-sized! Is it really a deal?
Students discuss the pros and cons of eating in fast food places. In this adult health lesson, student examine the fat and calorie content of fast food meals. They share ways to make healthy food choices.
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Vegetable Munchers
Young scholars are encouraged to eat healthy foods. Theyare able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods.Students travel in different pathways, and levels,while learning to make healthy food choices.