Nutrition Lesson Ideas

Here's a sample of lesson objectives and resources that can help students understand healthy food choices while building language skills.

Keep objectives simple. Students who participate in a nutrition unit might do one (or more, but one is fine) of the following...

1. Identify foods from each food group (Grains, Milk, Meat/Protein, Fruits/Vegetables, Fats/Oils/Sweets)

2. Categorize foods as carbohydrate/ not carbohydrate

3. Identify appropriate serving sizes for each food group

4. Answer questions using food labels

a. Regarding sodium/ salt

b. Regarding carbohydrate/ sugar

Curriculum Resources

Staying Healthy Chapter 4 FREE

Picture Stories Story 8: Snack Attack FREE

Heart Health ESL Curriculum Resource: Chapters E and F FREE

North Carolina Curriculum Guide Lesson Topic Nutrition FREE

ESL SALSA FREE

Health Stories several lessons in all three series’ books relate to nutrition and the content objectives. (available from New Readers Press. Cost is less than $10.00 per book.)