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Schools are the leading shareholders which present appropriate opportunities for equipping the students with healthynutritional habits, promoting children's health in terms of food and nutrition contents, nutrition services, the personnel, peerinteraction, school-based nutrition projects and policies. Nutrition, which is an area, related to science, health, nature, social andeducational sciences, overlaps with the learning fields of the Life Science course a core course for the first three years of theprimary school in Turkey. The determination of the current situation of food and nutrition related concepts, acquisitions andactivities in the primary school curriculum are significant in terms of school and program-based nutrition education. For thisreason, the aim of the present research is to analyze the current situation of primary school 1st-3rd Grade Life Science coursecurriculum in terms of correspondence with nutrition-related themes, course acquisitions, activity samples, sub-disciplineacquisitions. The data source of the present research which adopted document analysis, a qualitative research design, comprises"T.R. Ministry of National Education Head Council of Education and Morality Primary School 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Life ScienceCurriculum and Guide". The related document was scanned for food and nutrition terms determined as the units of analysis, andthe words food, drink, health, consumer, and consumption were traced in order to make a more comprehensive screening; thecurrent situation of the related concepts, themes, course acquisitions, and their correspondence with sub-discipline acquisitionswere examined. As a result of the analysis, the obtained contents were transformed into tables according to class levels andthemes. In the tables, the acquisitions and activity examples related with the analysis unit were presented, accompanied by directquotations. According to the obtained findings, it was determined that in the Life Science curriculum, nutrition related skills wereincorporated within the scope of Using the Resources Effectively and Promotion of Safety and Protection. The nutrition relatedskills of paying attention to foods and drinks, keeping away from unpacked foods, preference for milk, ayran, and natural fruitjuice instead of fizzy drinks, consuming snacks less, having home-made natural foods and fresh fruits in the lunch box wereincorporated under the title Using the Resources Effectively-Being a Conscientious Consumer. As for the fact that well-balancedand regular eating skills and nutrition are essential needs, they were incl