Resources

1. Crops 1: Where Does Food Come From? (n.d.) http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/crops1-where-does-food-come-from/

This website is a great resource for how to teach and write a lesson plan about food and
nutrition for your students. It has some great ideas and outside resources to check out.
You could take some ideas from this website and tweak them to meet your classroom's
needs. This is a great place to begin in planning your own health and nutrition lesson.
2. Russ TV. (2015, October 28th). Oats, Peas, Beans, & Barley Grow. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4kgyFCg-k
This video teaches students about how crops are planted in the ground, water, and then
eventually harvested. You could either play the video for students or perform it yourself.
You could even teach students dance moves that gesture the motions of planting,
harvesting, and putting the crop in a wheelbarrow.
3. Food a fact of life. (n.d.).
This website includes valuable food and nutrition lesson plans for students from
kindergarten through high school. This website was created as a national effort by the
United Kingdom to combat childhood obesity and increase food awareness.
4. Debono | Delivering quality produce to chefs in London for over 40 years. (n.d.).
This image is a great resource for teachers to use in their lesson on the first day when the
focus is teaching that all food comes from plants or animals. This shows a variety of
foods that fourth graders can easily identify and teachers can use as a starting point for
the days discussion.
5. Reduce Foods High in Fat to Lose Weight - Weight Loss For All. (n.d.).
This image is a great resource for teachers to use in their lesson on the first day when the
focus is teaching that all food comes from plants or animals. This shows a variety of
foods that fourth graders can easily identify and teachers can use as a starting point for
the days discussion.
6. Mocomi Kids (2015, October 28th). Where does food come from? Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXJSI6n8oz8
This video is a great tool for both students and teachers because it sums up what the first
two activities of the lesson on day one taught: students can identify their food and
whether it comes from plants or animals.
7. Ohio Dairy Farmers. (2015, October 29th). A Day on the Farm Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXFKlYm11o
For the students and teachers who haven't had a chance to visit and experience farms, this
video above is a great opportunity for them to see what it looks like, what goes on there,
and how they get their dairy products. It also builds on the information covered in
yesterday's lesson "All food comes from plants or animals"
8. Find What Doesn't Belong: On the Farm. (n.d.).
This worksheet is a great resource for both students and teachers because it highlights
what belongs on a farm and what doesn't, as well as preparing for the next lesson as to
how your food gets to your table.
9. Visit New Hampshire (2015, October 28th) Harvesting New Hampshires Fruit &
Vegetables Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36rugeHruQA

This video really highlights the different parts of harvesting fruits and vegetables as well
as what that really looks like, this is a great tool for students and teachers alike. It also
nicely ties into local food growth and growing food for one's self and one's family.
10. Serving Up MyPlate: A Yummy Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/serving-myplate-yummy-curriculum
I found a lesson plan outline created by the FDA regarding health and nutrition and built
off it to write my lesson plan. This lesson is great because it scaffolds on what has already
been learned in this week long unit: where food comes from, different kinds of food, and
how and why it's altered before you eat it.
11. The ONLY Banana Bread recipe you'll ever need! (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://sweetsugarblossoms.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-only-banana-bread-recipe-youllever.html
This blog features the recipe used in the final days lesson of implementing nutrition. This
recipe is a great tool for teachers to bring cooking and wellness into their classroom.
This recipe could be easily altered to adjust to students dietary needs and preferences.
12. Where does food come from? How is it made? (n.d.).
http://tiki.oneworld.org/food/food2.html
This website is a great resource for teachers and students to understand where their food
comes from. I like this website because it talks about how if consumers read the labels on
food they see a lot of additives they don't recognize such as butylated hydroxytoluene
and calcium disodium ethylene diamine tetra acetate. The website breaks down what
these additives are, if they're harmful, and what foods they're found in.
13. Fresh from the World... Where Your Food Comes From - University of Illinois Extension.
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://extension.illinois.edu/food/
This website is one of the best resources I've found for teachers. This interactive site was
created by the University of Illinois and has a whole page devoted to information for
teachers regarding food and nutrition. The site also includes lesson plans, common core
standards, and ways to tie food and nutrition into other subject areas.
14. Mazzucco, R. (n.d.). From the Farm to Your Table: Where Does Our Food Come From?
Retrieved from http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/7/97.07.07.x.html
This website was created by a teacher candidate at Yale University. She wrote a food
origin and nutrition lesson plan for a third grade classroom with adaptations for fourth
and fifth grade. This is a great tool for teachers to see a completed lesson plan so they can
get ideas and tweak it and change it for their own classroom.
15. ITVFixers. (2015, December 7th). Where does food come from? Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IRdS48yuf0
This video is a great tool for teachers to use in the classroom during their lesson on the
origin of food. This video is actually the first episode of several called "Field to Fork"
which explain where food comes from, how it's changed, and what it does for your body.
This first episode focuses on where does food come from. Teachers could play each of
these videos in the classroom as they correspond to the different aspects of food growth
and production.