Food Resources for Teachers

Printables for Grades K-5

Food grabs students' attention and these lesson resources will, too! Choose from warm-ups with questions, printables using math skills, science activities including a lab with stations, and writing prompts.

• Health Reading Warm-Up: Healthy Food
• Draw & Find: Which Fruit Bunch Has 11 Pieces?
• How Many Apples?
• Thought for Food: A Nutrition Lesson
• Favorite Foods
• Food Groups
• The Invention of Coca-Cola Reading Warm-Up
• More Food Printables

Printables for Grades 6-8

Use our resources on food to teach students nutritional information in fun ways. Activities include a food web, fast food information, foods from Colonial times, and more.

• Thought for Food: A Nutrition Lesson
• What Is a Balanced Diet?
• Food Web
• Chew on This Teacher's Guide
• Food Flight: Digestive Tracking
• Nutrition Lab
• Colonial New England Food & Cooking
• More Food Printables

Printables for Grades 9-12

Enhance students' knowledge of food and nutrition with these printables which include genetics using Gummy Bears, science key terms and review with accompanying test on food and nutrition, and more.

• Gummy Bear Genetics
• Chemistry of Cooking
• The Omnivore's Dilemma Teacher's Guide
• What Are Seeds and Fruits?
• Curious George Banana Bread Recipe
• Science Key Term Review: Digestion and Nutrition
• Life Science Test: Digestion and Nutrition
• More Food Printables

Lesson Plans

These engaging lessons will keep students interested and wanting to learn more about food. Choose from activities including experiments about mold and food or how ants are attracted to different foods, growing a class garden, and many more.

• Salt or Sugar: Which Dissolves Faster in Different Liquids?
• Which Foods Do Molds Love Best?
• Class Garden
• Table Manners
• Plant Eaters and Meat Eaters
• What Foods Attract Ants?
• Math and Recipes
• More Food Lesson Planning Resources

Quizzes

Test your students' knowledge about food with our quizzes. Interesting quizzes include a vegetarianism quiz and quizzes based on history and cultures.

• Vegetarianism Quiz
• Candy Quiz
• Medieval Food and Drink

Holiday Recipes

Classwork with "taste" describes these recipe resources. Students use math skills creating crazy recipes, and expand their cultural knowledge when they study recipes from other countries.

• Increasing Recipe Worksheets- Answer Key
• Math and Recipes
• World Class Recipes
• Mooncakes
• Hasty Pudding
• Chocolate Milk Shakes
• A Frozen Delight: Making Ice Cream
• More Holiday Recipes

References

Use these reading passages and recipes to increase students' learning about food facts and foods from other cultures.

• Cranberry Facts
• Good-for-Your-Body Foods
• You Are What You Eat
• Columbus and Food
• Fruity Maple Glazed Ham
• Food with History
• Juice Nutrition 101
• More Food References

Educational Technology Resources

These Educational Technology Resources offer you activities such as internet research on fast food facts, gathering data and creating a powerpoint presentation, and more.

• Fast-Food Fact Finding
• Math and Recipes
• Our Favorite Cookies PowerPoint Presentation
• Your Favorite Foods at Thanksgiving
• More Educational Technology Resources

Food & Art Connected

Students extend their learning about foods with these printable activities on healthy food choices, grammar and noun skill building through foods, and examining measurements of arts and crafts recipes.

• Fruit Patterns
• Math and Recipes Worksheet
• Math and Recipes
• Math and Recipes Vocabulary
• Name Those Fruits and Vegetables
• Bob's Lunch Box
• Sorting Seeds
• More Food Activities for Art Class

Mathematics & Food Connected

Help students expand their math skills with our resources. Activities include Gummy Worm estimation and measurement, favorite fruits survey, and creating a snack spreadsheet.

• Gummy Worm Measurements
• Math and Recipes
• Math in Science: Favorite Fruits
• Science Skill: Estimating and Measuring with Cereal and Raisins
• Create a Column Chart with Excel
• Sharing Food Equally
• Favorite Fruits Picture Graph
• More Food Activities for Math Class

History & Food Connected

Food and history are intertwined. Choose from activities such as the marshmallow's history, and comparing present-day Thanksgiving foods to those eaten in Colonial times to teach students about the history of foods.

• Colonial New England Food & Cooking Info Sheet
• Colonial New England Food & Cooking Lesson
• A Medieval Feast
• History of Marshmallows Reading Warm-Up
• Make a Dried Bouquet
• Thanksgiving Menu: Then & Now
• Rev Up Your Veggies: A Physical Science Activity
• More Food Resources for History Class

Science & Food Connected

Printables and reading passages including The Science Behind Nutrition, Gummy Bear Genetics, and the Chemistry of Cooking are a few of the Science and Food resources available.

• Thought for Food: A Nutrition Lesson
• Which Foods Do Molds Love Best?
• Gummy Bear Genetics
• Food Web
• Gummy Worm Measurements
• The Foods We Eat
• Chemistry of Cooking
• More Food & Science Resources

Language Arts & Food Connected

These resources include writing prompts, books with lessons and resources, vocabulary and writing about hunger and malnutrition, and many more.

• Favorite Foods
• Table Manners
• The World of Rosemary Wells
• Nutrition: Vocabulary
• Science Key Term Review: Digestion and Nutrition
• Hunger and Malnutrition
• Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid & Super-Galactic Jawbreaker Teacher's Guide
• More Food & Language Arts Resources

Literature Resources for Food & Nutrition

Use our various books and reading passages with activity sheets and other resources to enhance students' knowledge about food.

• Favorite Foods
• Dragons Love Tacos and Secret Pizza Party Activity Sheets
• Using The Omnivore's Dilemma in the Classroom
• The World of Rosemary Wells
• Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid & Super-Galactic Jawbreaker Teacher's Guide
• Good Enough to Eat Activity Guide
• Science and Writing: Food Poetry
• More Literature Resources for Food & Nutrition

Social Studies & Food Connected

Choose from our resources to enhance students' knowledge about food. Included are supermarket fair trade items, a take-home nutrition vocabulary project, labeling the parts of the corn plant, and more.

• Table Manners
• The World of Rosemary Wells
• Fair Trade
• Make a Dried Bouquet
• George Washington Carver
• Taking Care of Your Health: Family Activity
• The Popcorn Plant
• More Food Resources for Teachers

Food Resources for Health & Nutrition

Our Health and Nutrition Resources offer a lab lesson with worksheet and materials needed, a slideshow of activities for a printable book, and healthy exercise tips.

• Favorite Foods
• Which Foods Do Molds Love Best?
• Food From Plants and Animals
• Health & Nutrition Printables Slideshow
• Chemistry of Cooking
• Fred's Fruits and Vegetables
• My Favorite Exercise
• More Food Resources for Health & Nutrition