Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal
Using the engineering design process, develop and market a healthy fast food children's meal.
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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.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Communicate Your Results
Create an advertisement for your newly created healthy fast food children's meal.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Introduction
Take the Fast Food Challenge to start thinking about the role fast food plays in our lives today.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Supersizing
Understand how portion size affects healthy eating habits.
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.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Children's Meal Data
See a chart that contains a sampling of children's meals available in 2013 at 14 national fast food chains.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: A Legal Matter
Explore whether or not fast food companies should be liable for damages if their customers become obese.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal:refine the Final Children's Meal
Analyze feedback and think about how to improve your fast food children's meal.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Art
Explore how attractive packaging sells kids meals at fast food restaurants.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Biology
Analyze a children's meal from a local fast food restaurant to confirm or deny the presence of fat, protein, simple carbohydrates (sugar) and complex carbohydrates (starch).
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: A Lotta Dessert
Choose the items for your dessert parfait to make a healthy dessert.
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...
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.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Smart Snacking
When you're in a hurry and looking for something to snack on, you probably aren't focusing heavily on what would be the healthiest thing to eat. This article looks at the importance of snacking smartly and strategies one can employ for...
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!
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: High Cholesterol
Thorough overview of high cholesterol. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
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.
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.
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Do Beliefs About Healthy Food Inform Consumer Choices?
Questions related to attitudes.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Nutrition: Self Check Quiz
Try these five multiple-choice questions about nutrition. After submitting answers, students can review the material.
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: 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.