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Unit Plan
Winnipeg Health

Kids in the Kitchen

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Too many cooks in the kitchen? Not here! Set up a cooking club at school using this 148-page guide that teaches food and kitchen safety, measurement techniques, and nutrition. Young chefs get their hands wet by participating in a variety...
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Activity
Smarter Balanced

Importance of Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Prepare your class members for the performance task assessment on nutrition with an activity that asks class members to rank images of foods from least nutritious to most. Participants also offer reasons for why they ranked the foods the...
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Unit Plan
CCEA

Home Economics: Teen Building

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Learners explore the emotional and nutritional needs of teenagers in a six-lesson unit, which covers such topics as food sources, cooking skills, emotional well-being, and the positive effect of food and family occasions. 
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Lesson Plan
Julie Negrin

How to Teach Cooking to Kids

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Youngsters are more likely to eat something if they've worked hard to make it! Plan a cooking class with an e-booklet from Julie Negrin, author of Easy Meals to Cook With Kids. It includes what you should consider about your school site...
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Activity
River Dell Regional School District

Nutrition Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A salad of nutrition-themed videos can be enjoyed by your health class as a wrap-up to the nutrition unit. Groups select a topic and create a two-three minute skit or commercial to be filmed and shared. If you assign each group a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Meat, Fish and Poultry: Practical Application

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A note-taking outline is given to learners which covers meat composition and quality, types of meat and storage, and cooking meat. By viewing pictures they learn to identify cuts of meat or poultry products. They discuss inspection and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apples: Family and Consumer Science

For Teachers 7th
Learning to cook and making good food choices are extremely important life skills. Seventh graders explore food science in relation to health and nutrition, by conducting several experiments on apples. Websites, movies, and instructional...
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Baylor College

Serving Sizes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Are serving sizes for different foods always appropriate for what you need? For this hands-on activity, learners work in groups to estimate what one serving size of various foods are, and then evaluate their hypotheses by measuring real...
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Unit Plan
True Blue Schools

Now, We’re Cooking!

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Practice nutritional cooking with a collection of fun meal preparation lessons. Each lesson includes a focus, objective, collaborative activity, and recipe to culminate what young cooks have learned about healthy eating.
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Lesson Plan
Food a Fact of Life

Creative Crumbles

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Class cooks practice the rubbing technique and the preparation of a range of bases to produce an apple and sultana or herby veggie crumble.
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Cooking Matters

Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids

For Teachers K - 8th
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners create vegetable super heroes,...
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Worksheet
Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Scramble

For Students 2nd - 4th
Discover a variety of ways to eat and cook whole grains with a word scramble and secret code worksheet. Class members uncover seven whole grain options before using a number system to decode a secret message. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Nutrition Action - Safe Food Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
Multiple-choice and true-false questions assess your high schoolers' understanding of food safety. This is an interactive learning exercise in which learners can click on the correct answers to discover explanations. You could type the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nutrition Plates

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate healthy eating habits by studying the food pyramid.  In this personal health instructional activity, students write a recipe for a healthy meal including one item from each section of the four food groups.  Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the five food groups. In this nutrition lesson, students track their food over the weekend, and see if they are eating healthy. Then students get an opportunity to track their eating again to see if it improves.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Five Food Groups - Introduction to Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the five food groups as an introduction to nutrition. In this nutrition instructional activity, students learn about which foods belong in each of the five food groups and they determine the need to eat a healthy diet....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Be A Nutritional Entrepreneur

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research and define nutrition. They choose a definition of nutrition or a nutritional theme around which they design a restaurant. This activity helps students answer the question "What is a nutritionally balanced meal?"
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Become a Nutrition Expert

For Students 2nd
In this nutrition worksheet, 2nd graders read a selection on nutrition and fill in the table using the information from the selection.
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Thomson Delmar Learning

Cooking Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Get cooking with some preschool and kindergarten-based cooking lesson plans. As young cooks follow the directions on the recipes, they practice hand-eye coordination, measurement, counting, and nutritional eating.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables: A Nutritionally Rich Base

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine proper selection, preparation and storage techniques for a variety of fruits and vegetables. In groups, they prepare various types of salads.
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Worksheet
Choose My Plate

MyPlate Word Blanks

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Create a silly cooking themed story using nouns, adjectives, verbs, and more! Pupils fill in the blanks using their knowledge of different types of fruit, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy, then read the story aloud to hear a whacky...
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Lesson Plan
Food a Fact of Life

Meal Appeal

For Teachers 6th - 12th
To demonstrate their mastery of time management and kitchen organization skills, groups prepare either a shepherd's pie, lasagne, or spaghetti bolognese.
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Lesson Plan
Food a Fact of Life

Soup-er!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Is there anything better than hot soup on a cold day? Kids prepare either vegetable chowder or minestrone soup in an activity that features the use of the stove top.
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Cooking Matters

Breakfast Boost

For Students K - 8th
A healthy and balanced breakfast is essential to maintaining a day's worth of solid energy and mind-power. Encourage class members to eat a smart breakfast with a worksheet that provides interesting food facts, a questionnaire looking...