This article focuses on the use of problem-based learning in high school foods and nutrition classes. Problem-based learning, an instructional approach that promotes active learning, is the elaboration of knowledge that occurs through discussion, answering questions, peer teaching, and critiquing (Biley & Smith, 1998). Students are confronted with a simulated or real problem or a question to which they must formulate or seek a possible solution. As students develop skills needed to research a given problem or question, they sometimes must collaborate and view the situation from different perspectives (D'Agostino, 1997; Moffitt, 2001; Pierce & Jones, 1998), use information that is …