Inspiring healthy and sustainable food choices and agrifood careers.

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Our lesson plans are based on activities that focus on active participation of students. They combine teamwork, role-playing, communication skills, experimentation and opportunities for student led discussions.

Discover our food-related lesson plans under each themes!

Click on a theme and you will find:

tried and tested, ready-to-use lesson plans
accompanying resources
worksheets, videos and experiments

Food & Health

Our diet is closely linked to our health. Unhealthy diets can increase our risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer. Unfortunately, many people have unhealthy dietary habits, such as eating too few vegetables and fruits and too many processed foods. This is leading to an increase in weight problems and obesity in Europe. The lessons in this theme aim to raise awareness in students about how food interacts with the human body, how to acquire the correct nutrients via our diets, as well as practical skills like reading labels of products in supermarkets.

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Food & Sustainability

Engaging students in food and sustainability is crucial for both the future of our food system and planetary health. The lesson plans in this theme explore issues around regenerative agriculture, sustainable food choices, and food waste. Students will learn about the challenges facing our food system and how they can personally be involved in making it more sustainable.

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Food Science & Food System

Children and teenagers are bombarded with “scientific information” about food. But much of this information is contradictory, inaccurate, or simply false. This theme provides lesson plans that teach students the skills they need to evaluate food science information critically and to communicate this information effectively. The lessons also explore food systems as a complex web of activities, from production to processing to consumption.

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Agrifood Jobs & Careers

The lesson plans in this theme help students discover potential agrifood careers by raising their awareness about the variety of skills and different professions in the field. The activities range from describing food professions to classifying them at different stages of the food chain. Some of the lesson plans also support the development of entrepreneurial skills.

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Our Resources

Welcome to our FoodEducators resources. We offer to educators three types of resources: Lesson plans, Short Activities, and Food Focus Days. These resources are aligned with our four (not mutually exclusive) themes: Food & health, Food & sustainability, Food science & food systems, Agrifood careers & jobs.

All our resources were developed to address these main learning objectives:

Systems thinking: Broadening thinking to identify different elements within food systems and understand their complexity and interrelations.
Systems mapping: Explore the variety of jobs within food systems.
Sustainable and healthy lifestyles: Understand sustainability, from farm to fork to disposal.

Informal Activities

These include digital games, card games and other activities that can be used in a more informal way and not in connection with a specific lesson.

Lesson Plans

Lesson plans, designed for 45-minute classes, include optional extensions and activities. Each plan details the target age, learning objectives, and curriculum connections.
While each plan is a self-contained unit, they can be linked to create thematic lessons or longer projects (suggested linkages are included).
Supporting classroom materials (worksheets, presentations, teacher notes) are provided in printable and digital formats, along with background resources (podcasts, videos, articles) for teacher preparation.
If you are interested in how our Lesson Plans are connected with Sustainable Development Goals listed by the United Nations and Key Competences for Lifelong Learning listed by the European Commission, download our infographic.

Who we are:

FoodEducators is an EIT Food programme that provides teachers with fun, creative and interesting activities to engage young people, mainly schoolchildren. Our easily accessible, science-based food education materials enhance students' learning so they can become better informed, conscious consumers of the future.

We harvest new insights into how to deepen learning experiences around food, promote health and sustainability, and motivate future generations to pursue careers in the agrifood sector. Our programme focuses on inspiring leadership, conscious consumerism, food science literacy, entrepreneurial mindsets, and vocational possibilities among young people aged 6 to 18 years old.

Our vision:

A world where all young people have access to food education and are aware of exciting and innovative agrifood careers.

Our mission:

To support educators to teach, engage and inspire young people about the food they eat and consider a career in agrifood.

What teachers say about our materials

“Very interesting materials, smooth transition to other food-related issues.
(Poland)”

“For the first time kids in my class were exposed to thinking and learning about food within a food system approach. They were super excited and were keen on sharing their ideas.
(Israel)”

“I appreciated the students’ involvement in the experiment and analysis. This way they remembered more.
(Poland)”

“Detailed lesson plan, additional interesting materials.
(Poland)”

“With these lesson plans, I like the approach of not having complicated theories, but lesson plans that are close to the students. Topics are from the everyday world, so they appeal to the students. I am truly impressed. These handbooks are a treasure box for teachers with plenty of good ideas and supporting materials!
(Hungary)”

“The handbooks are very practical and practice-oriented and they are motivating and inspiring for teachers! They provide a great foundation for teachers to build on.
(Hungary)”

“All lesson plans that I tried are usable and provide a sound methodology for bringing in a new topic to the classroom: food. From now on, it is up to us to improve and adapt them for our students!
(Hungary)”

“The handbooks matched my expectations, the lesson plans are easy to use, even with special needs students.
(Hungary)”

“The material inspired me as a teacher to connect to local food stakeholders. I am motivated to think about the lesson plans further and adapt them to our students.
(Hungary)”

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