Nutrition Lessons

Looking to teach your students fundamental nutrition and healthy eating concepts?  Eat Right Philly can help!  Check out these free classroom resources below!

Eat Right Philly provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to make healthy food and activity choices through evidence-based curriculum that reinforces reading and math concepts. Lessons include fun and engaging activities that focus on important nutrition and health concepts and skills. 

Discover MYPlate

Download the Discover MyPlate Kindergarten Teacher's Guide here. This fun and inquiry-based nutrition education series of 6 lessons is teaches children to become food-smart as they practice counting, reading, writing, and more.  

Serving up myplate

This series of 3 inquiry-driven lessons help students discover nutrition, explain their understandings, and reflect upon their experiences.  Download the curricula below.

Level 1: 1st and 2nd Grade

Level 2: 3rd and 4th Grade

Level 3: 5th and 6th Grade

Language of Health Best Practices

The Language of Health Framework provides best practices in framing health messages in a way that is clear, consistent, effective, compassionate and inclusive.  For information on how these practices can be applied to nutrition education, click here.  For the full Language of Health Framework, click here.

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