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Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Superhumans and Bionics: A Heart of Titanium
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.
US Department of Agriculture
U.s. Department of Agriculture: Choose My Plate
The U.S. Government's official resource for sound nutritional information points out that eating right can be as simple as increasing some categories of foods while reducing others. Basic information on food groups combined with...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What's in That Box of Cookies, Anyway?
In this video segment from TV 411, learn how to read nutrition labels on food containers and calculate the calorie content of different serving amounts.
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda: Cool Tips for Kids
Teach your students to use the following easy ways to Read the Label at home, in the cafeteria, at the store, and at restaurants.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Eating Well While Eating Out
The older you become the more choices you will have to make about what types of food will make up your diet. This article relates the importance of a well rounded diet. Find out more about how good food has everything to do with how you...
WebMD
Web Md: Food O Meter: Calorie Counter & Calculator
Help stick to a healthy diet by using the calorie counter to tell you the number of calories in food that you find in your refrigerator and restaurants. This searchable database will also give your calorie count based on the number of...
Other
The Grain Chain: Measuring Energy
Read about how we measure energy from food and what a calorie is.
Climate Literacy
Clean: How Much Energy Is on My Plate?
This activity leads students through a sequence of learning steps that highlight the embedded energy that is necessary to produce various types of food. Students start by thinking through the components of a basic meal and are later...
National Geographic
National Geographic: What the World Eats
National Geographic presents a visual application to illustrate what types of daily diet caloric intake is from 1961-2011. Views of the whole world and breakdowns of individual nations are shown.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for Me?
It is easy to compare yourself with the celebrities and models you see every day on TV and in magazines. These pictures sometimes help shape our body image and we begin to think that we should look like these people. The truth is that...
Read Works
Read Works: Hot Topics
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the human body gets energy from food. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Teaching Gude: Healthy Choices
Through this activity, high school students keep track of what they eat everyday and compare their nutrient intake with the minimum requirements for good health.
Other
Dieticians of Canada: Assess Yourself
Learn about your diet, BMI, and more with this resource from the Dieticians of Canada.
Other
Healthy Eating: Breakfast
Learn why eating breakfast helps contribute to a healthy metabolism and healthy weight, and find examples of simple breakfast foods that are low in fat and calories.
National Institutes of Health
Nih Curriculum Supplement Series: The Science of Energy Balance
A great resource for teachers to help explain the balance between calorie intake and physical activity. There are many student activities that reinforce the need for physical activity in a healthy life style. Included are a teacher's...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: About All You Can Eat: Truth or Consequences
Demonstrate how calories are measured by building a calorimeter to measure the transfer of heat energy during a chemical or physical change. Test and record data on the calories in a peanut.
Curated OER
Kids Health: How Can I Lose Weight Safely
Finding the right weight for yourself can often be difficult because most people aspire to loose or gain a few pounds. Find out how you can safely reach a comfortable weight based on your unique body composition. Links to similar sites...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: About All You Can Eat: The Bite Stuff
Examine dog foods designed to clean teeth surface during chewing, design a human snack and measure its calories per mass. Discuss foods that might work as "edible toothbrushes" for people.
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Energy Calculators
A series of useful calculators for converting different sources of energy from one energy unit to another. Find conversion calculators for coal, electricity, natural gas, crude oil, gasoline, and diesel fuel, along with an additional...