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Nutrition and Physical Education Activities in the Classroom
You can promote health and wellness using nutrition activities and lessons. With physical education activities and suggestions about snack times, you can help impvove the habits of the youngsters under your charge.
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Good Health
Students complete a unit with cross-curricular activities to learn about a healthy body and maintaining their health. In this health lesson, students complete 8 lessons to learn about good health, a healthy diet, healthy foods, healthy...
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The Care and Feeding of Kids: Finding Information on Nutrition and Fitness
The Learning Network is featuring an article about First Lady Michelle Obama and her quest to help reduce childhood obesity in America. The article talks about how she has talked with the top three suppliers of school lunches and has...
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Race To Win Project
Students develop proper work and personal skills that will enable them to become competent and confident adults. Students analyze basic nutritional habits. Students evaluate sport/athletic food patterns.
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Healthy Body Image: A Lesson Plan for High School Students
How does your class view themselves? High schoolers explore body image through a series of four activities. Groups collaborate to examine the changes we experience as a part of growing up, how the media influences body image, and healthy...
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Serving Sizes
Are serving sizes for different foods always appropriate for what you need? In this hands-on activity, learners work in groups to estimate what one serving size of various foods are, and then evaluate their hypotheses by measuring...
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Healthy Snacks Project Lesson
After learning why it is important to limit salt, fat, and sugar in their diets, divide your class into pairs or groups to complete this project. Each group will create two charts: unhealthy and healthy foods. They will cut out food...
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The Five Food Groups
Do you eat a balanced diet? Help your learners determine how healthy they are with a fill-in chart that will help them track their food intake. The grid provides color-in stars children can mark when they eat their meats, dairy, fruits,...
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Nutrition and Fitness
Students explore nutrients found in foods. In this health lesson, students discuss the importance of a healthy diet and exercise. Students track the number of calories burned during various forms of exercise.
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Crack the Secret Code-- Health Activity
In this health worksheet, students learn about proper diet and exercise by reading the cartoons and deciphering a secret code about health.
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Diet and Exercise Activity
Young scholars explore their physical abilities by participating in team sports. In this physical education lesson, students collaborate in groups in one of several team sports before moving on to the next station. Young...
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Nutrition (Weight Management)
Seventh graders explore nutrition and the effect it has by participating in class discussions. In this diet and exercise lesson, 7th graders analyze print advertisements and discuss how unrealistic their expectations are and how...
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Energy Balance
Students explore energy. In this health and nutrition instructional activity, students brainstorm a list of healthy foods that provide energy, and identify physical activities that burn energy. Students complete a good...
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Eating to Win
Young scholars examine human health by completing a sports nutrition worksheet. In this eating habits lesson, students discuss the importance of a balanced diet and proper feeding times when competing in physical activities. Young...
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Rate That Snack!
For this nutrition worksheet, students keep track of all snacks eaten for a three day period. Students record the name of the snack, nutritional information, where and when it was eaten, and a rating by the student.
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Understanding MyPyramid
Fifth graders investigate serving sizes. In this serving size lesson, 5th graders study the food pyramid paying special attention to proper serving sizes of food. Resources are provided.
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Balance Your Day With Food and Play
In this healthy living worksheet, students color a picture of a wild cat who is exercising in the park. Students find the 10 snacks and play things in the picture.
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Food Pyramid Relay Race
Learners explore healthy eating habits by conducting a physical food challenge. In this food pyramid lesson plan, students identify the main concepts behind the food pyramid and what choices they should be making with their food intake....
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Nutrition Introduction
The CDC offers a wealth of information regarding several specific topics that fall under nutrition including good health, exercise, diet and more.
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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...
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Nutrition.gov
This is a comprehensive resource for information pertaining to health, nutrition and well being. Explore this site to learn more about food safety, food facts, health management and more.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition Center: Vegetarian Diets
Learn about different types of vegetarian diets, the correlation between heart health and vegetarianism, and foods that allow vegetarians and vegans to get essential nutrients in their daily diets.
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Cspi: The Need for Nutrition Labeling at Fast Food Restaurants [Pdf]
This 34-page document discusses obesity, nutrition labeling, the average American diet, the nutritional quality of foods from restaurants, and ways poor eating, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and premature death can be fought. Chapters...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Diet Wars
Identify health issues facing Americans today and evaluate one's own food consumption. Examine the USDA food pyramid and the impact it may have had on weight gain and explore the impact of body image on young people.