Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Superhumans and Bionics: A Heart of Titanium

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore how to keep your heart healthy by exercising regularly, sticking to a low-fat diet and not smoking. Use mathematics to understand nutritional information about various foods.
Handout
Precision Nutrition

Encyclopedia of Food: Sodium

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Don't completely hold that salt! Sodium provides benefits to the human body. Find out sources of sodium and what happens when we aren't getting the right amount of the mineral.
Handout
WebMD

Web Md: Electrolytes and Electrolyte Imbalances

For Students 9th - 10th
What are electrolytes? What do electrolytes do? Find simple answers to these questions in the two paragraphs provided on this website.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Elements: Sodium

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the element sodium and its chemistry including atomic weight, atom, uses, sources, name, and discovery. Plus properties and characteristics of sodium are discussed.
Article
Other

Moms Team: Hydration: Replacing Electrolytes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a simple overview of electrolytes and their function when it come to your health. Learn why electrolytes are important, how they are lost during sports and physical activity, how they are replaced by foods, when electrolyte...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Smarter Food Processing Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge about the foods you eat by taking a short quiz. Match products to their ingredients, answer questions about nutritional values and compute the amount of fruits and vegetables consumed per year.
eBook
Other

Kids World : Plant Nutrition

For Students 3rd - 8th
Plants need certain nutrients to grow well. Use this site to find out what plants need, how to care for them, how to read a fertilizer label, and do the fun activities, like a quiz, a puzzle and a coloring book.
Handout
US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Electrolytes

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a brief definition of "electrolytes" and a few examples of the types of electrolytes that exist in your blood.
Graphic
Curated OER

[Bohr Model of Sodium]

For Students 9th - 10th
A site containing a good deal of elemental information. Information on each element includes atomic number, atomic mass, melting point, boiling point, density, isotopes and more.