Nutrition

Save money and boost nutrition through a school yard garden, part of national trend to focus on eating local, whole foods. "Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of...
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Lesson Plans Foodborne Bacteria (Word) Analyze Meals & Snacks by Food Guide (Word) Chemical Leavening 101-Baking Powder Reaction PowerPoints JWU Plate Presentation (PPT) Managing the Family Dollar (PPT) Nutrients Jazz (PPT) The Safe Foodhandler (PPT) Welcome to Foods I (PPT) Worksheets Cooking at Home (Word) Digestive System Notes (Word) Hand washing Review (Word) Hand washing Rubric (Word) Management of the Family Project Directions (Word) Management of the Family Project (Word) Management...
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A picture is always worth 1000 words and in this case can reflect your health. Inspired by the IPhone app called dietSNAPS, this unique lesson for visual learners allows students to track and assess their diets. The dietSNAPS app for the IPhone is a photo journal that allows users to take pictures of everything...
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I always have my students look at cereal labels and compare two different kinds. We'll this lesson takes it to the next level by allowing students to bake their own cereal, make an accurate nutrition label for their cereal, create advertising, and delve into FDA regulations on food labeling.
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Essential Question: How can we reduce fat in our diet and still maintain taste so that we don't get bored and lose interest in the foods we eat? Geraldine Howard's web site will guide you through various pages that will help you and your students find answers to this question and many more.
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Objective Students will evaluate their own diets, sleep, and exercise to see if they are healthy or not and set goals that will help improve upon their diets, exercise, or amount of sleep. Set Ask the students if they consider themselves healthy. What defines a healthy person? Is exercise just enough? Does just being “skinny” mean that...
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