Grade Level: 8th Grade

Understanding Food Advocacy

Students will learn how we can advocate for food choices and changes that impact ourselves by researching a food issue and creating a social media post that creates awareness of the issue for peers.

Food Journals

Students will learn how we can make informed food choices by creating a food journal and writing an expository summary of their findings including how they could adjust their eating to include more whole foods.

Nourishing With Nutrients

Students will learn how food impacts health by researching the importance of a specific nutrient group and presenting to the class.

Food Advertisements

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors by examining food advertisements. Students will explore the idea of nutrient density and the importance of moving away from “good for you/bad for you” language when it comes to describing food. Students will then apply their knowledge by creating a flier to […]

Map Your Meal

Students will learn how food and the environment are interconnected by tracing the origins of ingredients in a recipe and investigating how to eat seasonally in their hardiness zone.

Growing and Eating Food Around the World: The Story of Rice

Students will learn about food sources and origins by watching how rice is grown and cooked in different ways around the world. Students will watch and discuss a video of a chef preparing a recipe using rice called arroz con leche. Students will then write a story about the journey of a grain of rice […]

Eating Pasta Together

Students will learn how food connects them to others and their family by learning how pasta is made and writing a story about a pasta dish that reminds them of their loved ones.

#7: We Can Be Advocates

In this lesson, students will celebrate the skills they are building as SnackTime Explorers and use all they have learned to become advocates. They will explore ways they can use their newly acquired skills and knowledge to make a positive impact on others and on the food system.

#6: We Can Make Informed Food Choices

In this lesson, students will learn that they can make choices about what foods to eat and what foods will make their bodies feel good. Students will examine a food and figure out if the fruit or vegetable looks like it does when it grows or if it has changed. They will learn that processed […]

#5: Food Impacts Health

In this lesson, students will participate in a shared tasting experience. Students will discuss the many different social and lifestyle determinants that influence health. The term “nutrient-dense” is introduced as an appropriate way to describe foods that contain many nutrients, as opposed to framing foods as “good” or “bad”. Students will then sample a fruit […]

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