CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.15 Balanced Eating
Understand how can you make the most healthy decisions.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Vegetarian Diet a Healthy Alternative
This article discusses the benefits of a well-balanced vegetarian diet. Here, read about how vegetarianism can promote a healthy lifestyle and help maintain a healthy body. Learn how vegetarianism is safe and healthy for everyone, even...
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Fat: Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss
Evaluate current guidelines for a healthy diet, compare them to one's own eating habits and learn safe behaviors for maintaining a healthy weight. Analyze the food pyramid, fast-food and health-food nutrition and the causes of obesity.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Green Light Eating
During this healthy foods lesson, students will sort foods into "healthy" and "unhealthy" categories.Students with then keep a food journal and reflect about their food choices.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Food Foldable
During this instructional activity, learners will listen to a poem about a balanced diet and create a foldable. In each section of the foldable, students will include information about a different food group and will use this creation as...
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...
Read Works
Read Works: What Should You Eat?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the food groups that make up a healthy diet. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cheese, Peas, and Chocolate Pudding Please
This lesson plan will introduce the importance of a good diet. Students will work in groups to create sample menus with healthy food choices. Finally, students will participate in making chocolate pudding, fingerpainting with it, and...
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...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Heart Health and Care
This is a simple guide from The Franklin Institute to keeping your heart healthy through proper exercise, a varied diet, and a clean lifestyle. Here, read about how to exercise and eat to avoid heart disease.
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...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Food and Nutrition Center
This website provides a wide array of nutritional information. Included are articles on food and food groups, the connection between health and food, and healthy eating choices.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: You Are What You Eat!
Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food. Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body. It...
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Food Nutrition Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over food nutrition, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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.
Other
Nourish Interactive: Kids' Fun Food Games
Use this site filled with games to explore good nutrition, healthy snacks, exercise, and reading food labels. The interactive games are entertaining and the information is extensive.
PBS
Pbs: Fizzy's Lunch Lab: Fizzy's Balance Bots
Choose healthy foods to balance the robots' diets for this food pyramid game.
abcteach
Abcteach: Science: Health and Nutrition
[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.
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...