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Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness/Foods Class Overview: (Bolded Items Are Available in My Store)

The document outlines a comprehensive six-week curriculum for a Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness/Foods class, detailing weekly topics such as kitchen safety, food preparation, nutrition, and digestion. Each week includes various activities, projects, and assessments designed to engage students in learning about food and health. Labs accompany most lessons, allowing hands-on experience in cooking and understanding food concepts.

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Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness/Foods Class Overview: (Bolded Items Are Available in My Store)

The document outlines a comprehensive six-week curriculum for a Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness/Foods class, detailing weekly topics such as kitchen safety, food preparation, nutrition, and digestion. Each week includes various activities, projects, and assessments designed to engage students in learning about food and health. Labs accompany most lessons, allowing hands-on experience in cooking and understanding food concepts.

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Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness/Foods Class Overview

(Bolded Items are available in my store)


1st Six Weeks:
Get to Know Your Student Activities – Foods Charades
Kitchen Utensils – What Do I Do? Functions of various utensils, listing where students draw utensils,
matching game (Kitchen Utensils PPT/Match Cards Activity/Name That Utensil Activity/notes)
Basics of Ingredients and Functions (Basic Ingredients of Baking PPT/Student Activity/notes)
How to Read a Recipe – Always Read completely through recipe/Change a Recipe – double
ingredients (Make Unbaked Cookies – give 1 per student) (What is a Recipe?)
Have students give directions for making a Peanut Butter Sandwich (follow exactly their instructions)
to understand following directions – pass out ½ sandwich – check allergies before activity
Kitchen Math – Measuring (Measuring Techniques PPT/notes), (Which is the missing ingredient
PPT)/notes)
Grocery Shopping/Comparison of Stores, Brands/Private Labels, Cost by Units (Grocery Store
Assignment)
Review & Exam
2nd Six Weeks:
Safety in the Kitchen
Washing Hands Activity – glitter on hands, how hard to wash off/order product for activity
SERV Safe Lessons (Booklet, PPT, Worksheets, Exams)
Foodborne Illness Student Report – Create a Brochure or File Folder Project (Food Borne Illness
Brochure Report)
Review & Exam – Certified as SERV Safe Food handler/SER Safe Exam
3rd Six Weeks:
Carbohydrate Lesson (Pasta PPT/notes), (All About Rice PPT/notes)
Breads – Yeast Breads – demo how not to kill the yeast (Breads PPT/notes), (How to make Pizza
Dough PPT/notes)
Bread Machine – make yeast bread as example. Students can make yeast bread and refrigerate for 2 nd
day of cooking
Quick Breads – Pancakes, Waffles, Biscuits, Muffins (Muffins 101 PPT/notes), (Not Your Ordinary
Monkey Bread PPT/notes)
Muffin PPT then muffin lab (measure & label dry ingredients first day, mix and cook second day)
Food Labels – How to read labels – (Guess My Label) by ingredients, (Reading Labels PPT/notes)
Proteins Lesson – Poultry, Beef, Fish, Beans – Complete vs Incomplete Proteins (All About Meat
PPT/notes), (All About Eggs PPT/notes)
Parts of Beef, Poultry, Fish and cooking procedures/Beans – incomplete proteins
Student Project over Protein – technology project; protein, cuts, cooking methods, recipes, nutrition
Review & Exam or Project
4th Six Weeks:
My Plate Information/Website; Students determine healthy eating plate for their activity, age
(You Are What YOU Eat PPT/notes)
Personal Food Plans –Student Project - Complete 3 Day Food Record/Evaluation by Student (Student
Personal 3 Day Food Record Assignment)
Portion Control – Serving Size Kit – Students can create a serving size kit (if no teacher materials)
Portion Distortion – Hand Size to judge food portions
Fats Lesson – Different Types of Fats, Good Fats, Bad Fats – Students compare fats
Review & Exam
5th Six Weeks:
Nutrients Lesson – How to Eat Healthy
Student Complete Nutrient Worksheet – nutrient, daily amount, too much, too little, food sources
Students Lab – How to keep nutrients good when cooked
Advertising in Foods – Students make an Advertisement for Food (Advertising Appeals for Foods
PPT/questions/answers/student activities), (Grocery Store Assignment),
Fast Foods – Compare Fast Food Restaurants – nutrients, calories, advertising, popularity
Nutrition During Pregnancy – What to eat, what not to eat (Nutrition During Pregnancy PPT/Student
Assignment/notes)
Child Nutrition – Student Project Good Nutrition for A Child (choose age of child) (Child Nutrition PPT/notes)
Fad Diets – Teacher gives basic information about dieting, fad diets
Students in small groups research and create technology project over specific fad diet
Eating Disorders – Teacher introduces eating disorders, reasons behind eating disorders (Eating Disorders
PPT/notes)
Vegetarian/Vegan Lesson – Students learn about vegetables (Healthiest Fruit or Vegetable Campaign Project)
Students cook vegetables in Lab
Review & Exam or Project
6th Six Weeks:
Digestion – Student Project – Create a large digestive diagram on poster paper/3D to complete the
flow of the digestive system
Fruits Lesson – What’s Your Favorite Fruit? Student prepare a pervasive ted talk over their favorite
fruit (Bingo Game – Fruits & Vegetables)
Dairy Lesson – Non-dairy substitutes, Types of Milk, Types of Cheese – Tasting Class
Students research a country of international cuisines, provide information and recipes for classmates.
Can do in small groups. (Cooking Cuisines in Our World PPT/notes/Student Project)
Herbs/Spices – Introduction to Herbs & Spices PPT, available in small containers to smell examples of
herbs and spices (Herbs & Spices PPT/notes)
In windows in classroom, have some herbs or spices growing in the windowsills
Review & Exam
Most lessons are accompanied by Labs if kitchens are available. Additional items are: How to Make
Charcuterie Boards PPT, Chocolate Truffles PPT, Cooking Methods of Foods PPT, Cooking In a Cup PPT,
How to make an Omelet PPT

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