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#HeartHealthyEating

Students investigate the impact of our food choices on our heart health through reading informational texts.

Science
Astronomy: Out of This World Food, Gr 3-5

Students will explore the law of the conservation of matter by dehydrating and rehydrating foods.

Science
Astronomy: Out of This World Food, Gr 5

Students will explore the law of the conservation of matter by dehydrating and rehydrating foods.

ELA
Battling Food Insecurity in Your Community, Gr 6-8

Students will research an organization working to combat food insecurity.

ELA
Battling Food Insecurity in Your Community, Gr 9-12

Students will research an organization working to combat food insecurity.

ELA Math
Bread

Students will compare and contrast different grains used around the world.

ELA
Build Your Own Toast, Gr 3-5

Students will investigate internal and external influences while creating a recipe for toast.

ELA
Build Your Own Toast, Gr 6-8

Students will investigate internal and external influences while creating a recipe for toast.

ELA
Build Your Own Toast, Gr PreK-2

Students will investigate internal and external influences while creating a recipe for toast.

ELA Social Emotional Learning
Cacao: The Great Migration & The Columbian Exchange

Students will learn about the Columbian Exchange and globalization through the history of chocolate and cacao.

ELA Social Studies
Cultures from Different Cultures: Fermented Foods of the World

Students will investigate environmental and cultural characteristics of different countries through fermented foods.

ELA
Designing Food Desert Solutions

Students will investigate one or more aspects of food deserts and will use design thinking to propose solutions to the problem of food deserts.

ELA
Discovering Healthy Foods

Students will investigate how eating different foods make us feel and give us energy to play and grow.

ELA
Eating Pasta Together, Gr 3-5

Students will explore how food connects us to our family by writing about a personal dish.

ELA
Eating Pasta Together, Gr 6-8

Students will explore how food connects us to our family by writing about a personal dish.

ELA
Eating Pasta Together, Gr 9-12

Students will explore how food connects us to our family by writing about a personal dish.

ELA
Eating the Rainbow

Students will learn about the importance of eating different colors of food and will identify their favorite foods of each color.

ELA
Eggs Around the World
ELA
Filling in the Gaps: Battling Food Insecurity

Students will learn what food insecurity is and demonstrate their understanding by sharing food insecurity data from a local community.

ELA Science
Fish and the Ecosystem: A World Without Fish

Students will be able to identify the different types of food chains in the ocean and how they impact different ecosystems.

ELA
Food Advertisements, Gr 3-5

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through looking at food advertisements.

ELA
Food Advertisements, Gr 6-8

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through looking at food advertisements.

ELA
Food Advertisements, Gr 9-12

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through looking at food advertisements.

ELA
Food Advertisements, Gr PreK-2

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through looking at food advertisements.

ELA
Food Desert Awareness

Students will build their own understanding of food deserts.

ELA
Food for Thought: Foods that Fuel Your Brain

Students investigate “power foods” for the brain.

ELA Health & Wellness
Food Journal, Gr 3-5

Students will explore informed food choices by creating a food journal.

ELA
Food Journal, Gr 6-8

Students will explore informed food choices by creating a food journal.

ELA
Food Journal, Gr 9-12

Students will explore informed food choices by creating a food journal.

ELA
Food Journal, Gr PreK-2

Students will explore informed food choices by creating a food journal.

ELA
Frijoles de la Olla, Gr 3-5

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through investigating the factors that impact their food choices.

ELA
Frijoles de la Olla, Gr 6-8

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through investigating the factors that impact their food choices.

ELA
Frijoles de la Olla, Gr 9-12

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through investigating the factors that impact their food choices.

ELA
Frijoles de la Olla, Gr PreK-2

Students will learn how food behaviors are influenced by external and internal factors through investigating the factors that impact their food choices.

Health & Wellness Math
Geometry Sandwiches

Students will recognize and classify geometric figures (lines, angles, quadrilaterals) through the lens of building sandwiches.

ELA
Getting to the Root of It: Sweet Potatoes, Yams & Other Root Vegetables

Students will uncover the origins of various root vegetables to gain an understanding of its uses, benefits, and the best ways to consume them.

ELA Social Studies
Granola

Students will understand that informed food choices are personal.

ELA
Granola/Snack Mix: A Mix of Me

Students will create a personal recipe for granola.

ELA
Growing and Eating Food Around the World: The Story of Rice, Gr 3-5

Students will learn about food sources and origins by watching how rice is grown and cooked in different ways around the world.

ELA
Growing and Eating Food Around the World: The Story of Rice, Gr 6-8

Students will learn about food sources and origins by watching how rice is grown and cooked in different ways around the world.

ELA
Growing and Eating Food Around the World: The Story of Rice, Gr 9-12

Students will learn about food sources and origins by watching how rice is grown and cooked in different ways around the world.

ELA
Growing and Eating Food Around the World: The Story of Rice, Gr PreK-2

Students will learn about food sources and origins by watching how rice is grown and cooked in different ways around the world.

ELA
Growing Food in Soil, Gr 3-5

Students will learn about food sources and origins by
through comparing and contrasting two different types of fruits or vegetables.

ELA
Growing Food in Soil, Gr 6-8

Students will learn about food sources and origins by
through comparing and contrasting two different types of fruits or vegetables.

ELA
Growing Food in Soil, Gr 9-12

Students will learn about food sources and origins by
through comparing and contrasting two different types of fruits or vegetables.

ELA
Growing Food in Soil, Gr PreK-2

Students will learn about food sources and origins by
through comparing and contrasting two different types of fruits or vegetables.

ELA
Growing Methods

Students will learn how food and the environment are interconnected by researching growing methods.

ELA
Healthy Teeth, Healthy Food

Students will learn how to choose foods that are beneficial for their teeth and oral health.

ELA
Heart Healthy Eating

Students will learn how to make informed heart-healthy food choices.

ELA
How Food Affects My Body

Students will be able to discuss the many ways food affects the body and identify foods that boost energy and health.

ELA
How Food Deserts Affect Communities

Students will discover the negative effects food deserts have on communities and will design a grocery store to aid a community in their area.

ELA
How Food Powers the Brain

Students will explore how people can adjust their eating
habits to receive the optimal benefits of “power foods” for the brain.

Math
Hummus…(Should I Add to My Recipe)?

Students will better understand how taste correlates with ratios and proportional relationships.

ELA Health & Wellness Social Studies
Iroquois’ Three Sisters in Agriculture & Nutrition

Students will discover why corn, beans, and squash are considered “three sisters” in agriculture.

ELA
Kasama Means Together: Connecting Through Longanisa

Students will learn how food connects them to others/their family.

ELA Math Social Studies
Let’s Tacobout Tacos

Students will beer understand the cuisine of other cultures by learning about the origin of tacos.

ELA
Making a Smoothie

Students will learn how food impacts health by choosing ingredients to put in a smoothie.

ELA Science
Maple Syrup and Climate

Students will better understand the relationship between climate and its effect on maple syrup production.

ELA Math
Measurement & Butter Chicken

Students will work to convert measurement units, weigh products, and measure by increasing or decreasing ingredients.

ELA Science
Meat and Climate Change

Students will better understand how human activity contributes to climate change.

ELA
My Mix, Gr 6-8

Students will create a personal recipe for granola.

ELA
My Mix, Gr 9-12

Students will create a personal recipe for granola.

ELA
My Sandwich

Students will advocate for their choice of best sandwich and why.

Math Social Studies
Noodles Around the World

Students will learn about the origins of pasta around the world and how to connect through a common ingredient.

ELA
Nourishing with Nutrients, Gr 6-8

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

ELA
Nourishing with Nutrients, Gr 9-12

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

Now We’re Cooking with Nutrition
ELA
Open Mind, Open Table

Students will practice respect for and open-mindedness toward others’ cultures and their food.

ELA
Our School Garden, Gr 3-5

Students will learn how food and the environment are interconnected through the lens of gardening.

ELA
Our School Garden, Gr 6-8

Students will learn how food and the environment are interconnected through the lens of gardening.

ELA
Our School Garden, Gr PreK-2

Students will learn how food and the environment are interconnected through the lens of gardening.

ELA Math Social Studies
Pizza & Neighborhoods

Students will research neighborhoods in their city and create a signature pizza representing to represent.

ELA Social Emotional Learning Social Studies
Refugee Camps & Cooking

Students will create a recipe similar to one that could be found in a refugee camp, identify living conditions of refugees, recall issues that refugees face concerning food, identify ways to be more understanding of others’ relationship with food, and manipulate recipes using problem-solving skills.

ELA
Root Connections: Sweet Potatoes vs. Yams

Students will investigate the health benefits, origins, and the ways we consume root vegetables, specifically sweet potatoes & yams.

ELA
Root Vegetables

Students will explore the origins and uses of various kinds of root vegetables.

ELA Science
Salad: Solutions & Mixtures

Students will understand the characteristics of mixtures and solutions by creating their own salad dressings.

ELA Math
Seasonality: Everything In Its Own Time

Students will learn about seasonality and taste local produce.

Social Studies
Seeds, Nuts, and Grains by Region

Students will understand how geographical features impact the way we live and the foods that are available to us by mapping seeds, grains, and nuts.

ELA
Seed to Salad: Growing Vegetables

Students will learn about how food is grown and practice retelling through the steps of growing and harvesting spinach.

ELA
Superfoods Assemble: Foods That Power Your Brain

Students will learn about foods that power the brain.

ELA Social Studies
Tacos Al Pastor

Students will interpret and identify the sources and origins of different foods and their ingredients by analyzing immigration patterns and learning about different cultures.

ELA
Tale of a Fish, Gr 3-5

Students will learn about food sources and origins by learning how fish move from water to our table.

ELA
Tale of a Fish, Gr PreK-2

Students will learn about food sources and origins by learning how fish move from water to our table.

ELA
Tale of a Fish: Wild or Farm Raised?, Gr 6-8

Students will learn about food sources and origins by learning how fish move from water to our table.

ELA
Tale of a Fish: Wild or Farm Raised?, Gr 9-12

Students will learn about food sources and origins by learning how fish move from water to our table.

ELA Social Studies
Tea and the Trouble in Boston

Students will evaluate the economic causes and effects of England’s tax policies on the colonies.

The Age of Exploration Through Food
Math Science
The Angles of Honey Bees

Students will learn about and calculate angles in nature through the lens of honeybees.

ELA Health & Wellness Math Social Emotional Learning
The Green in Me

Students will make informed choices when choosing meals and snacks.

ELA
The Roots

Students will compare different kinds of root vegetables, their origins and role in our eating habits.

ELA
The Six Healthy Food Groups, Gr 3-5

Students will learn how food impacts health by learning about the six healthy food groups.

ELA
The Six Healthy Food Groups, Gr PreK-2

Students will learn how food impacts health by learning about the six healthy food groups and identifying foods that fit into each group.

ELA
The Whole Truth about Whole Grains

Students will learn how to make informed decisions about how to incorporate whole grains into their diet and learn about whole grains and their benefits.

ELA Math Social Studies
Titanic Proportions and Scaling

Students will better understand food’s role in our history and food’s relation to socio-economic status.

ELA
To Gluten or Not To Gluten?

Students will learn about gluten and how it can impact people’s bodies in different ways.

ELA
Understanding Food Advocacy, Gr 6-8

Students will learn how we can advocate for food choices and changes that impact ourselves.

ELA
Understanding Food Advocacy, Gr 9-12

Students will learn how we can advocate for food choices and changes that impact ourselves.

Understanding Food and Nutrition
ELA
Understanding Gluten & Its Effects

Students will be able to describe what gluten is and how it impacts our health.

Science
Unusual Food Options

Students will understand the impacts of agriculture on the environment and identify foods that are better for the environment.

Health & Wellness Math
Using Math to Make Healthier Choices

Students will compare two recipes and determine the healthier choice by calculating the percentages of nutrients in each.

ELA Science Social Studies
What’s In Your Hot Chips?

Students will compare different nutrition labels.

ELA Health & Wellness
What Am I Eating?

Students will use the skills of comparing and contrasting to evaluate nutrition labels.

Health & Wellness Math Science
What a Waste

Students will understand the impact of food waste and learn ways to reduce food waste.

ELA
What is Gluten?

Students will be able to describe what gluten is and how it impacts our health.

Social Studies
Where in the World? Food Sources and Origins

Students will learn more about geography by identifying areas of the world where food is produced and the steps it might take from farm to table.

ELA
Why Vitamin C Is Essential, Gr 6-8

Students will investigate the benefits of Vitamin C in our overall health and wellness.

ELA
Why Vitamin C Is Essential, Gr 9-12

Students will investigate the benefits of Vitamin C in our overall health and wellness.

Science
Why We Need Seaweed

Students will learn about the benefits of seaweed and discover the impact that seaweed can have on climate change, the environment, and human health.

ELA Social Studies
You Are What You Eat

Students will reflect on how their ingredient choices are the result of their unique backgrounds.

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