Need ideas for your grains unit? Look no further! Taste tests, power points, videos, labs, and unit quizzes.
New Ideas for FACS Teachers!
Need ideas for your grains unit? Look no further! Taste tests, power points, videos, labs, and unit quizzes.
Since the new FDA food guide recommendations came out we've all scrambled to revamp our nutrition lessons to meet the new requirements. Since it has been a few months there are new resources available that you should be aware of. You'll find links, lesson plans, power points, worksheets, and products to help you stay...
The new "Choose My Plate" campaign has been launched starring a colorful yet simple place setting. The cost of changing the food recommendation icon for the US is $2 million dollars. Hopefully the money spent on this campaign will pay off in health care savings as people use this new food guide to eat...
With the new food guide plate replacing the pyramid, it is time to change nutrition lesson plans to get on board. This lesson introduces students to the new myplate food guide by having them create three nutritionally sound plates according to the government guidelines. They will have to look through grocery flyers and cut...
The United State's 20 year old food guide pyramid is soon to be replaced with a new dinner plate design. Stay tuned for the newest information about the latest food guide and new nutrition lessons for your students based on this release, June 2nd.
Need some ideas on how to construct your course or write curriculum? Here are a few examples from other Family Consumer Science programs!
There has been a lot of hype and a nation wide stirring about Fast Food over the past couple years thanks to movies like Super Size Me and Food, Inc. Most recently Fast Food hit the news again as a photographer startled the world with pictures of "the indestructible happy meal" that looked exactly the...
I came across this blog that is written on school lunch by an anonymous teacher that goes by Mrs. Q. She has made a project out of eating school lunch every day and documents the progress. She is an advocate for improving the national school lunch program. Interesting read if you have time.
Food Inc. (DVD): If you haven't watched this documentary I would highly recommend it! In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's...
Encouraging people to learn where their food comes from is becoming a popular trend these days and rightfully so as all the packaged, processed food we consume tends to cause some people to forget where their food actually comes from. Depending on your students background, some may have never been to a farm or...
