Career & technical ed.
Careers in Food Service: Jobs, Shifts and Paychecks
Students match eight restaurant jobs to their duties, calculate pay, overtime and shift hours, and write about a career path and teamwork.
THE LESSON LIBRARY
A good plan.
A better starting point.
Find a lesson that fits your subject, your students, and the time you have.
Career & technical ed.
Cross-Contamination: Stop the Spread
Students read about how germs spread between foods, match six kitchen mistakes to the right fix, order refrigerator shelves, and judge true-or-false statements.
World languages
Ein Tag mit Jonas: Read and Answer in German
Students read a short original German passage about one boy’s day, answer comprehension questions, match times with activities, and write about their own day.
Science
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem: Food Chains and the 10% Rule
Students classify organisms as producers or consumers, calculate energy passed along a food chain using the 10% rule and predict the effects of removing one species.
Career & technical ed.
Farm to Table: Food Supply Chain and Price Math
Students follow a loaf of bread from wheat field to store shelf, calculate how the price grows at each stage and explain why, and weigh local food choices.
Science
Food Webs and the 10% Rule: Following the Energy
Students read about energy flow, learn the vocabulary of food chains, and use the 10% rule to calculate how much energy reaches each level of an energy pyramid.
Health & physical ed.
Fueling Athletes: Food, Water and Timing
Students learn the basic jobs of carbohydrates, protein, fat and water for athletes, sort foods by main nutrient, and plan a game-day eating schedule.
World languages
Me Gusta la Comida: Food and Expressing Likes
Students match food words, practice gusta and gustan, read a class food survey table, translate sentences about likes, and write about their own food preferences.
Career & technical ed.
Plant Parts and Plant Needs: Match, Sort, Explain
Students read a short passage on plant parts and growth needs, match each part to its job, sort foods by the plant part we eat, and explain what a struggling plant is…
Science
Pond Food Web Detective: Who Eats Whom?
Students use a feeding table for a pond community to sort organisms into roles, trace food chains and predict what happens when one species disappears.
Health & physical ed.
Reading Nutrition Labels: Compare Three Snacks
Students compare three provided nutrition labels, calculate whole-container totals and percent Daily Values, and choose a snack using evidence.
Career & technical ed.
Safe Food Temperatures: Know the Numbers
Students fill in the safe cooking, holding and cold-storage temperatures, convert them to Celsius, and work two time-in-the-danger-zone problems.