Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Is Your Diet Healthy?
A nutrition calculator exploring student's dietary choices by finding their total intake of calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, sugars, sodium, and fiber throughout the day.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Do Beliefs About Healthy Food Inform Consumer Choices?
Questions related to attitudes.
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.
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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.
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Mr breakfast.com: All Breakfast All the Time
This is an excellent resource for healthy and tasty breakfast recipes, reviews of restaurants with great breakfast entrees, and features like "Ask Mr. Breakfast." Find ways to vary your morning meals everyday with simple ideas, read...
Other
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Green Light Eating
During this healthy foods lesson, young scholars will sort foods into "healthy" and "unhealthy" categories.Students with then keep a food journal and reflect about their food choices.
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Helpguide: Understand, Prevent and Resolve Life's Challenges
Professional and unbiased information for those seeking knowledge regarding a particular area of health and wellness. Modules are broken down into aging, children and family, healthy lifestyles and mental health. Comprehensive and...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Food Supplements Affect Weight Gain of Juvenile Mice
As your mom and dad always tell you, a healthy diet is important to good health. This project is designed to see what happens to mice when they are allowed to load up on sugary snacks. Do you think that they will gain excess weight? Do...
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Best Foot Forward: Ecological Footprint Calculator
Measure your ecological footprint, and see how many land and resources you use in your everyday life. Find out how your choices affect the natural world, and then find ways to make changes in your lifestyle to help the environment.
Harvard University
Harvard School of Public Health: The Nutrition Source: What Should I Eat?
A lot of confusing and erroneous information exists regarding proper nutrition. Get the correct facts and improve your healthy eating knowledge here.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: A Lotta Dessert
Choose the items for your dessert parfait to make a healthy dessert.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Back to School
The first day of school is usually comprised of a mix of anxiety and excitement. Don't let this experience overwhelm you! Look through this article to learn more about what you can do to make this fearfull transition a little smoother.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.46 Nervous System Health
Understand that humans make choices that affect their health.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Vegetarian Choices in the Protein Food Group
Here a few tips to help vegetarians get enough protein by eating beans, nuts, and soy products from the meat group. Includes a link to a page on how vegetarians can eat from the food pyramid and get the nutrients they need to stay healthy.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 4: Don't Be Fooled
In this lesson plan, students learn that phud logos are everywhere and easily recognized and explore more about the hazards of marketing. For the second "Capture It" project students take a photo or draw a picture of one phud that is...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Caring for Each Other: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week, explore caring for each other.
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.
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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!
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Fast Food Fun
Use your knowledge of spreadsheets to analyze the calories and fat content of fast food choices. This project gives links to a USDA site and a final report format. A sample spreadsheet and grading rubric is also provided.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Respiratory System Health
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Many of the diseases related to smoking are called lifestyle diseases: diseases that are caused by choices that people make in their daily lives. For example, the...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Health
Considering price and smart food choices, plan out a healthy fast food meal.
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Deal With Diets
There are numerous diets advertised that claim to be healthy and effective. Which is the right one for you? This article includes dieting tips that are both safe and of benefit to your body. Links to related sites are also included.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Center of the Ocean: How Can Some Foods Be Harmful to Our Health?
Theo is on a cruise ship with his family. They're having a party with loads of food. Not all the food is healthy though. Can you help Theo choose healthy foods?
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