Free Nutrition Lesson Plans For School Teachers and Health Care Organizations
Nutrition Lesson Plans
- Free Printable Nutrition Lesson Plans
- Printable Nutrition Worksheets
- Family Nutrition Tips Handouts
- Nutrition Education Website Flyer
- Online Nutrition Education Games and Tools
- Monthly Kids Healthy Nutrition Tips Newsletter
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Welcome to Nourish Interactive - The fun way to learn about nutrition!
Featuring free printable nutrition lesson plans and a variety of health and nutrition education resources for
elementary school teachers, children’s computer labs, health care educators, and community health centers.
Our interactive website offers FREE online learning activities and nutritional tools that teach children about the USDA Kids Food Pyramid, healthy nutritional choices and the importance of daily fitness activities.
The lesson plans are designed to work with our interactive nutrition education games. Nourish Interactive's nutrition lesson plans make it easy for you to incorporate the games into your educational programs, elementary school classroom curriculum, or as an online resource for children’s computer lab programs.
Teaching nutrition is easy with our free teacher lesson plans, online nutrition games, printable worksheets, word puzzles, kids health and fitness tip sheets, and more!
Our goal is to make learning about nutrition fun while promoting healthy habits for a lifetime. Our main game allows children to play at their own pace while learning about the importance of nutrition and creating balanced meals. We have special features like:
- Progress reports you can send home to the parents.
- Grouping feature: Organize children into groups for quick review
- Special reports - You can see how your class is leaning with our online reports including pre and post test score analysis!
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Read more about our nutrition online tools for kids and parents
Nutrition Lesson Plans
Lesson plans are arranged by grade level.
Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure Game:
Recommended Grade Level: K - 5th
An online multi-level nutrition game. The food pyramid is brought to life as children learn about the importance of each food group, balanced meals and daily activity.
Teacher’s Manual- Nutrition and Food Pyramid Computer Game
Katlin’s Magical Messages - BMI Calculator for Kids:
Recommended Grade Level: K - 5th
A fun BMI calculator especially designed for children. After entering in their information they will hear a positive healthy message.
Teacher Lesson Plan - BMI for Kids - Body Mass Index
Food Coloring:
Recommended Grade Level: K - 3rd
Online coloring with easy color selection using crayons. Pages offer the option to print and color offline or color and print.
Teacher Lesson Plans - Food Groups Coloring Activities
Matching Meals Nutrition:
Recommended Grade Level: 1 – 4th
The classic memory game is centered around the five different food groups. When the puzzle is completed a nutrition message is revealed. Three levels of difficulty.
Teacher Lesson Plan - Food and Nutrition ‘Matching Cards’ Memory Puzzles
Food Pyramid Nutrition Puzzles:
Recommended Grade Level: 1 – 5th
Jigsaw puzzles with positive nutrition messages. Puzzles offer a variety of difficulty, up to 125 piece puzzles.
Teacher Lesson Plan - Food Pyramid Nutrition Puzzles
Slap Snack Card Game:
Recommended Grade Level: 1 – 5th
Kids will have fun trying to beat Chef Solus as they use food cards that teach kids about the food groups.
Nutrition Lesson Plan- Teaching kids about healthy foods
Interactive Food Pyramid for Kids:
Recommended Grade Level: 1 - 5th
Chef Solus teaches children about the USDA Food Pyramid and the food groups as they scroll their computer mouse over the different parts of the food pyramid.
Nutrition Lesson Plans - Kids Learn about the USDA Food Pyramid
Bon Appetite Arcade:
Recommended Grade Level: 2 - 5th
A fun arcade game that requires creating a balanced meal in order to score points.
Teacher Lesson Plan - Learn about the Food Groups and Create Balanced Meals
Falling Food:
Recommended Grade Level: 2 - 5th
Children must catch only the foods from a designated food group in order to win this game.
Teacher Lesson Plan - Teaching the Food Groups -Educational Computer Game
Whack A Snack:
Recommended Grade Level: 2 - 5th
This classic game requires children to find a specific food item within its food group.
Teacher Lesson Plan - Teaching Kids about the Food Groups
Word Search Puzzles:
Recommended Grade Level: 2 - 5th
Kids will enjoy finding foods and health words associated with specific food groups.
Nutrition Lesson Plans - Children’s Food and Nutrition Vocabulary Word Searches
Build-a-Meal (Meal Planner) Game:
Recommended Grade Level: 3 - 5th
Children will create customized balanced meal plans by selecting foods in three virtual scenes: kitchen, school cafeteria, and grocery store.
Teacher Lesson Plan - Healthy Foods- Balanced Meal Planner
Katlin’s Crossword Puzzles:
Recommended Grade Level: 3 - 5th
Nutrition-oriented Crossword puzzles
Teacher Lesson Plans - Nutrition Crossword Puzzles
Pyramid Panic:
Recommended Grade Level: 3 - 5th
Children are challenged to make a balanced meal while avoiding the high fat and high sugar foods.
Nutrition Lesson Plan - Teaching Kids Healthy Food Choices
Pyramid Power:
Recommended Grade Level: 3 – 5th
Kids are given clues to solve a nutrition oriented question.
Teacher Lesson Plans - Learn about the Food Groups and Healthy Meals
Ride the Food Label Tutorial and Quiz:
Recommended Grade Level: 3 – 5th
Chef Solus teaches children about each section of the food label with audio and visual support. Children will learn how to compare food labels in a virtual grocery store.
Nutrition Lesson Plan - Reading Food Labels
Talking Nutrition Dictionary:
Recommended Grade Level: 3 – 5th
Nutrition dictionary provides vocabulary words with colorful images and animations to bring nutrition alive. Audio is available to help children pronounce nutrition related words.
Teacher Lesson Plan - Dictionary - Nutrition Vocabulary Words and Facts
Printable Nutrition Education Worksheets
We have a full page devoted to free printable worksheets. These worksheets reinforce nutrition education through a variety of activities. Just 'click to print' educational and fun activity worksheets for students in K through 5th grade. Click here- kids free nutrition printable sheets.Printable Handouts for Parents - Family Nutrition Tips
These nutrition oriented Family Tip Handouts focus on specific actions families can take to live a healthier lifestyle. These are great sheets that can be reviewed in class and/or sent home to discuss with their parents. Recommended Grade Level: K – 5thShare Nourish Interactive's Nutrition Education Website
Print our colorful flyer and share with other teachers, nutrition educators and most importantly to let, parents know about this free nutrition education website. Send the flyer home with the students, as a hand out to parents during Back to School Night or post it on a bulletin board. Nourish Interactive has a parent’s section full of nutrition information and nutritional tools to help families live a healthier lifestyle and nutrition oriented games for kids to play.Nutrition Education Website Flyer Printable PDF
Children's Monthly Nutrition Tips Newsletter
Each month we offer a new a new nutrition topic designed to teach younger students about the importance nutrition and daily activity. Click here kids healthy nutrition tips.Daily Health Tips Printable Calendar
Handouts for students and parents- printable family health and nutrition tips-updated with new healthy tips each month.Daily Health and Nutrition Tips - Monthly Calendar
Online Games and Nutrition Education Tools
Our kids nutrition pages are full of fun educational 'mini-games' and nutrition tools to help children learn about healthy choices in a fun, interactive way. Click here - free kids games- nutrition games and tools.
Don't forget to sign your class up to play the Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure game designed to help them
learn about healthy eating in a fun way!
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