Kids use the CHOW Club Web site from the Center for Science in the Public Interest to figure out the nutritional value of meals eaten at school and to consider ways to improve them. Then students plan a healthful lunch to enjoy at school. You might want to invite a representative from the cafeteria staff to explain the ways people plan and prepare school foods to meet nutritional standards. The Web site can help your students develop tons of great questions to ask during the visit. Food in space.
Sound nutrition is especially important for astronauts.
Their work requires concentration and endurance. Food for Space Flight answers those questions and more. Another NASA resource, Space Food and Nutrition , offers an educator's guide with related science and math activities for grades K-8. Evolution of food. Few activities could make your students hungrier than a tour of The Food Timeline .