Activity
US Department of Agriculture

U.s. Department of Agriculture: Kids Food Critic Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this fun game, kids get to pick a new food at the grocery store, taste it, and rate it like a food critic.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.15 Balanced Eating

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand how can you make the most healthy decisions.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's on Your Plate?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In today's fast food world, it can be hard to make healthy eating choices. For this lesson, students will learn how they can incorporate healthy eating habits in their daily routines. They will use menus from local restaurant chains and...
Website
Other

Eat Your Way to Five a Day!

For Students 3rd - 5th
This resource presents guidelines to follow to help you make healthy food choices and get the nutrients from fruits and vegetables that your body needs.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition: What Your Body Needs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students explore why some foods are healthy and others unhealthy, they outline the process our body uses to break down foods into forms it can use, and they explain the role nutrition can play in managing diseases, including diabetes.
Lesson Plan
Other

My Science Box: Food Webs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, students will choose an organism of their choice and research its life cycle, food chain, diet, and habitat, then predict how habitat change might affect the organisms living within it.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Digestive System Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the human digestive system, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Ecology Quiz

For Students 5th - 8th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over concepts in ecology, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Activity
abcteach

Abcteach: Science: Health and Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary to middle school students can learn from the resources here about food and nutrition. In particular is a lesson plan and worksheet on the food pyramid guidelines issued by the USDA in 2005.
Interactive
Other

Pacific Science Center: Nutrition Sleuth Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you figure out the missing nutrient in each person's diet? Guess the correct letters of the missing nutrient in this hangman style game!
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Healthy Eating: Collection

For Students 3rd - 7th
Support healthy eating by using these resources in the classroom. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was a nationwide recipe contest for kids ages 8-12 that promotes cooking and healthy eating. Winners attended a "State Dinner" at the White...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biodomes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Who Eats What

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining who eats what. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Always Craving Cookies? Blame It on Your Gut Bacteria

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about how the bacteria in your digestive system influence the decisions you make about the food you eat.
Website
Other

At Home in the Heartland: At Home on the Fringes of the Prairie (1800 1850)

For Students 3rd - 5th
Interactive site offers information and pictures pertaining to early pioneer life. See advertisements in the paper, furniture, glassware, and food preparation tools. Read stories of individuals who lived during that time and make...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What to Wear? What to Drink? Weather Patterns and Climatic R

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How does our climate affect us? How do we decide what to wear each day? What factors determine if our clothing choices are comfortable? What is the source of our water? Young scholars explore characteristics that define climatic regions....
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British Council

British Council: Learn English: Healthy Eating

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn how to eat a healthy diet by taking this online quiz about food and food groups.
Activity
Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission: You Are Here

For Students 5th - 8th
In this interactive mall environment, students learn how to make smart decisions as consumers. Whether shopping for clothes, choosing the best food deal, searching for a job or buying a cellphone, students will learn how to recognize...