Resources and Materials for Educators

Food Science Teacher Resources

Whether you're a teacher looking for class materials or a student interested in looking behind the scenes at how food is developed and processed, check out these curriculum guides and accompanying resources from the Institute of Food Technologists.

Teachers Resource Guide: The Science and Scientists Behind the Food

Connect your students to this dynamic real-world application of chemistry, biology, and physics from IFT and Discovery Education.

Food Safety Lessons for Middle School Students

These lessons were designed to complement the Newspapers in Education (NIE) supplement called Food Safety: From Farm to Table. The supplement is available as a PDF on this Web site in two alternative formats for your use. The centerpiece of the supplement is also here as a single PDF for your use.

Bring Food Science into Your Middle and High School Classrooms

A curriculum used to engage students in inquiry-based science from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in collaboration with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA).

Food and Science

Volume IV in a series of Food Nutrition and Science Curriculum projects developed for the Utah State Board of Education.

School Sciences and Food

Experiments and projects to assist teachers in developing their own programs for secondary school children from Institute of Food Science and Technology.

FDA Food Safety Resources for Kids, Teens, and Educators

Games coloring books, songs, quizzes, puzzles, and more that teach principles of safe food handling.

Ever Wondered About Food?

Resources for Teachers: From BBC2's Ever Wondered? Series. A look at the science, history, and artistic aspects of the food in your cupboard with a British perspective.

Marketplace for the Mind

As you explore this site you will find the Agricultural Resource Library full of information on quality, nonbiased references, books, lesson plans, and teaching tools that are aligned to Pennsylvania's Science and Technology and Environment and Ecology teaching standards. The library can be searched in a multitude of convenient ways.