First and Second Grade Nutrition Lesson Plans

Nutrition Curriculum for First and Second Grade

Healthy Choices, Healthy Me!

This 10-lesson nutrition curriculum aligns with California education standards and can easily integrate into your units on Math, Social Science, Health, Language Arts and Physical Education. The lessons were created using a behavior-change model that encourages healthy eating behaviors and attitudes in your students.

The first and second grade curriculum covers eating a variety of foods from each food group every day, eating a balanced breakfast most days, eating healthy snacks and meals whenever they can and participating in active play for at least 60 minutes a day. Plus, this nutrition curriculum is free for California first and second grade teachers!

Although the first and second grade lesson plans share the same name, the student workbooks are different for each grade based on their respective core content standards.

Newly aligned to California common core standards!

First Grade Curriculum Materials

Teacher Guide
First Grade Student Workbooks (available in English and Spanish)
Multi-cultural Food Pictures
Poster
Storage Box

Second Grade Curriculum Materials

Teacher Guide
Second Grade Student Workbooks (available in English and Spanish)
Market Mystery Storybook
Multi-cultural Food Pictures
Poster
Storage Box

Who is eligible for free materials?
(Free materials are only available in CA)

$35/kit

Nutrition is easy to add to your lesson plans

Teacher Training
First Grade Education Standards
First Grade Quick Start Guide
Second Grade Education Standards
Second Grade Quick Start Guide
Program Evaluations and Validation
Curriculum Connections
1. First Grade Curriculum Connections
2. Second Grade Curriculum Connections

What are teachers saying?

Teachers love that our nutrition curriculum works so well in the classroom. The nutrition lesson plans for first and second grade have undergone rigorous field testing to evaluate for student outcomes. This process helps us to refine the lessons until they become teacher-friendly, fun for students and effective.

Here is what teachers are saying about these first and second grade nutrition lesson plans:

"Our whole second grade team uses the Dairy Council lessons at the beginning of the school year. We reinforce it through the school year since our Science and Health curriculum match the same concepts. Thank you very much for your free support throughout my teaching career (22 years)." —Ximena Zamosc, Second Grade teacher, Walker Elem, San Diego Unified

"Thank you very much for an easily usable, colorful, helpful, balanced program! I have used it and loved using it for years." —Donna Whitmire, Second Grade teacher, Franklin Elem, Santa Ana Unified

"I like the ideas in the Curriculum Connections section on incorporating food and nutrition across the curriculum." —Denise Swanson, First Grade teacher, Gold Ridge Elementary School, Folsom Cordova Unified

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