Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Math
Analyze a sampling of real data to determine how healthy fast food meals for children are.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Food and Nutrition
Learn about the five food groups that are important for a healthy diet.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Supersizing
Understand how portion size affects healthy eating habits.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Communicate Your Results
Create an advertisement for your newly created healthy fast food children's meal.
Read Works
Read Works: You Are What You Eat
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about vegetable choices in school lunches. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition: What Your Body Needs
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Inflation Data: Is the Economy Healthy? (Grades 9 12)
This lesson asks students to identify sources for macroeconomic data, interpret data, describe the present state of the economy using current data, and use data to predict the state of the economy one year from now.
Other
American Diabetes Association: Food and Fitness: What Can I Eat: Eating Out
Learn to make low fat, low sugar, and low sodium food choices, even when eating out. This guide serves as a helpful tool not only for diabetics who need to control their blood glucose levels, but for anyone seeking to eat healthfully,...
Other
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.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: High Cholesterol
Thorough overview of high cholesterol. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Finding My Media Balance
Helping kids learn what makes different media choices healthy or not is a good start. But how do we help them actually make responsible choices in the real world? Help your students create a personalized media plan. Students will reflect...
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: A Lotta Dessert
Choose the items for your dessert parfait to make a healthy dessert.
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: Figuring Out Fat and Calories
Most people know that fats and calories are connected to our weight, but what is their correlation? This article analyzes their relationship and how an understanding of these items can benefit your body. Links to related articles are...
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda: The Nutrition Facts Label
This colorful printable gives you a quick look at the key information you can find on the Nutrition Facts label.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nutrition Facts Labels
This lesson focuses on how to read nutrition and ingredient labels. A quiz is provided at the end of the slideshow.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: What Colors Do You Eat?
Fruits and vegetables come in many different colors. Book includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: How to Eat More Whole Grain Food
Find notes at this website that will help you eat whole grains at meals and for snacks. Includes tips for reading food labels and teaching young children how to make healthy food choices.
Other
Pacific Science Center: Nutrition Sleuth Game
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!
Curated OER
Kids Health: Hunger and Malnutrition
Most of us have little knowledge of what it's like to experience malnutrition. Malnutrition is caused when a person does not have access to a well-rounded diet or has a condition that does not allow him or her to absorb the proper...
Curated OER
Kids Health: A Guide to Eating for Sports
Television ads and magazines are littered with new sports drinks and supplements that claim to enhance performance for athletes. Are these claims proven to be true or just cunning marketing schemes? This article delves into the hype and...
Curated OER
Kids Health: When Snack Attacks Strike
Use this site to learn what kinds of snacks you should eat when you're hungry in between meals. Read about eating healthy snacks and avoiding junk food. This article is organized into the following sections: "In the Mood for Food," "The...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Typical Fast Food Meal
Compare a sample fast food meal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPlate guidelines.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Food Theme
This site from EnchantedLearning.com provides food-related activities including nursery rhymes, printables, crafts, and quizzes. Includes pages on the food pyramid, food terms in other languages, famous paintings, and a feature on the...