Fast Food Nutrition Lessons for Teen Healthy Eating: High School Health Curriculum Health Lessons
Fast Food Nutrition Lesson: Empower Your Students with Healthy Eating Knowledge!
Do you want to teach your students about healthy eating in an engaging way? This resource includes five dynamic lessons on reading food labels, understanding fats and cholesterol, making informed fast food choices, and more! Plus, students will create a group poster project that reinforces key nutrition concepts.
This digital download product, is editable in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for print and online on Google Drive.
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Why This Resource is Perfect for Your Classroom:
>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of both worlds.
>> Meets HS/MS National Health Education Standards.
>> Meets HS/MS Technical Subjects Health Common Core Standards.
>> Meets Washington State’s rigorous Health Education Standards.
Why You Should Purchase This Resource:
A Student Favorite – Engaging and fun, students love the interactive restaurant group activity.
- Best-Selling Lesson – This is one of my top-selling health lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers!
- 5+ Days of Interactive Learning – Includes PowerPoint presentations with detailed instructions to guide you through each lesson.
- No Boring Curriculum – This isn’t just a vocabulary drill. These lessons include fun, hands-on activities and real-world applications.
- Real Impact – Students learn how to read food labels and are often shocked by the calories and fat content of their favorite fast foods.
- Amazing Student Creations – The posters your students create will blow you away. See real examples in the preview photos.
- School-Wide Impact – Display the best posters in a public space at your school to raise awareness about fast food choices.
- Healthy Lifestyle Inspiration – Students will be inspired to make healthier decisions after completing the “Healthy Tennis Shoe” activity.
What Other Teachers Are Saying:
- “My students loved this lesson.”
- “Very relevant, since many students frequent fast food restaurants.
- “I have used this assignment for years, love it!”
- “Students enjoyed this activity. The posters caused a lot of discussion around the school also.”
- “WOW - so much contained in this product!”
★ This resource is taken directly from our Full Semester/Year High School Health Curriculum, and our Middle/Junior High School Health Curriculum, which are both #1 Best-Selling Health Curriculums on TeacherPayTeacher!!
What’s Included:
- 144 Slides in 4 PowerPoint Presentations to guide you through each lesson
- 30 Pages of Step-By-Step Teacher Directions
- Daily Learning Target Posters and Check-Off Sheets
Lesson Breakdown:
Lesson 1:
An introduction to healthy eating, obesity trends, family genetics, and the impact of false advertising. Includes:
- CDC’s “Obesity in the U.S.” PowerPoint
- A "Portion Sizes" PowerPoint, highlighting portion changes over time
- Height-Weight Chart, BMI Information
- Calories Worksheet and Formula
- Set Point Theory and Yo-Yo Dieting Risks
- Educational video
Optional Pre-Lesson:
- Food Label Reading lesson and activity worksheet
Lesson 2:
- Understanding calories and how they affect diets
- Dissecting unrealistic weight loss claims
- "Joe's Calories Worksheet"
- The differences between fats: trans fat, saturated fat, unsaturated fats
- Determining individual healthy fat intake
- Analyzing fast food nutrition info
- Group activity: The Fast Food Poster Project – Students research and present fast food nutritional data using an easy-to-navigate website.
Lesson 3:
- Understanding cholesterol
- Optionally enhance poster work with an “Art Rubric”
- Continue working on Fast Food Posters
Optional Lesson 4 (for Middle Grades):
- Interactive Tennis Shoe Activity: A hands-on way to learn about food groups and their benefits.
Total: 5 Lessons, including optional lessons for additional depth!
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