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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,...
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Moms Team: Choosing Low Fat Items at Fast Food Restaurants
Find fast-food choices from all major food groups in this chart. Foods are organized into the following categories: "Lower Fat Choices," "Moderate Fat Choices," and "High Fat Choices."
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...
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.
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
Classroom Connections: Wallace & Gromit Veggie Power
This downloadable teaching resource for Grades 2-3 has lessons on healthy eating designed to encourage children to eat more vegetables. Students explore their own and others' food preferences and learn about food groups.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Fast Food Marketing
Find out how many fast food companies invest in advertising to convince consumers to buy their products.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Healthy Eating: Collection
Support healthy eating by using these resources in the classroom. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was a nationwide recipe contest for kids ages 8-12 that promotes cooking and healthy eating. Winners attended a "State Dinner" at the White...
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.
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.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Health
Considering price and smart food choices, plan out a healthy fast food meal.
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's on Your Plate?
In today's fast food world, it can be hard to make healthy eating choices. In this lesson, students will learn how they can incorporate healthy eating habits in their daily routines. They will use menus from local restaurant chains and...
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: Typical Fast Food Meal
Compare a sample fast food meal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPlate guidelines.
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting: Ed Said
Meet Ed Said, a nine-year-old purple-haired hard-core fruit-and-veggie rapper. Learn nutrition facts from Ed by watching and playing his videos and songs. Includes many print-and-color activities about eating healthy fruit- and...
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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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Do Beliefs About Healthy Food Inform Consumer Choices?
Questions related to attitudes.
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?
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Cayman Islands: Human Body: Eating Healthy
Help Cole make good choices for healthy foods before he can play at the beach.
Other
Eat Your Way to Five a Day!
This resource presents guidelines to follow to help you make healthy food choices and get the nutrients from fruits and vegetables that your body needs.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Make a Prototype/test the Design
Mke and test a prototype of your healthy fast food meal.
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.