Curated OER
Who's in the Bag?
Students express personal characteristics with items from home. They introduce themselves to one another.
Curated OER
Mater Your Munchies
Students explore the various food groups while doing a physical activity.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math at the Grocery Store
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "P" Shopping at the Grocery Store
In this activity students will explore marketing tools, terminology, and the specific four P's of marketing strategy. After viewing the introductory materials, background content, and completing two brief in class assignments, students...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Geographic Groceries
This site provides activities and lesson plans for all age levels on mapping.
Other
Tonya Skinner Business Ed Lesson Plans: Grocery Shopping
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners to plan a class party while organizing the budget details in a spreadsheet program. Learners will demonstrate computer skills in inputting data, formatting data, and...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Chef's Surprise!
In this story, a young girl goes grocery shopping with her father, then they prepare a meal together for her mother. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System
This instructional activity is an introduction to the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Dewey Decimal Classification System will be compared with the familiar layout of a grocery store. Young scholars...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Authentic Writing and Math Problem Solving Using Shopping Lists
We're going shopping in this integrated lesson plan. Students must make a budget, create a shopping list, and act out grocery shopping utilizing their problem solving and writing skills. A comprehensive lesson plan with printable...
Other
Pbs: Grocery Store, Making Change
This grocery store lesson plan will help your students understand the process of making change with real-life examples. Try adapting this Ohio State Standard based instructional activity to your state standards.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: Baby Gorilla Goes Shopping
This interactive story is about Mamma Gorilla shopping for Baby's food. She asks the reader to make seletions using pictures.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Food and Cooking Grocery List
Use this interactive activity to navigate the virtual store, reading labels and selecting items from the appropriate grocery aisles.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Grocery List Spelling [Pdf]
This PDF activity page offers a unique way to study spelling words. Students do one activity (such as make a crossword with their spelling list and definitions) from three of the four grocery store departments: meat, produce, bakery, and...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Businesses in Your Neighborhood
Lesson to help students understand how a local grocery store works and why it is important to the local community. Students categorize grocery items, practice terms related to grocery stores, and then role-play a trip to the store.
Curated OER
Math at the Grocery Store
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
Read Works
Read Works: A Trip to the Store
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fictional narrative shares the story of a shopping trip and the theme "wants versus needs" in life. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Testing the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony
Think back to the last time you went to the grocery store. How well can you describe the person who was ahead of you in the check-out line? How many details do you remember about the person? Here is a project to investigate the accuracy...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Blue Is Your Sports Drink?
Do you read the list of ingredients in foods and drinks before you buy them at the grocery store? If you do, you may have noticed that many of the items that are blue in color have the same dye, called FD&C blue 1. In this chemistry...
US Department of Education
U. S. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics
Fun activities and ideas parents can use to help their preschool through fifth-grade children strengthen math skills and develop positive attitudes towards math and its real-world uses. Download a PDF of the complete text or view...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Easy as Abc!
Lesson where students name grocery store items to correspond to the letters of the alphabet. Students must remember the previous items when it is their turn to pick an item.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Disappointment
Whether the disappointment comes from unmet expectations at a birthday party or from another disappointment such as not getting a favorite snack at the grocery store or missing out on playtime with a friend due to illness, it is...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Are There So Many Types of Apples?
Have you ever walked into a grocery store and wondered where all the varieties of apples came from? Theresa Doud describes the ins and outs of breeding apples. [4:28]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Are Food Preservatives Bad for You?
Food doesn't last. In days, sometimes hours, bread goes moldy, apple slices turn brown, and bacteria multiply in mayonnaise. But you can find all of these foods out on the shelf at the grocery store thanks to preservatives. But what...