Food Resources for Teachers
Food is a fun subject for students of all ages! Use these lesson plans and worksheets to explore the many educational uses of food with your class during National Nutrition Month (March) or any time of year. You'll find plenty of cross-curricular resources, including edible art projects, songs about nutrition, and recipes from around the globe. Students will enjoy hands-on activities that use candy to learn about math and science. You'll also find worksheets on the human digestive system and healthy eating.
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.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.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