Department of Defense
Do Dea: Lesson 2: The Ideal Energy Source
Eating right and exercise is the key to a healthy lifestyle. In this lesson, you will explore carbohydrates, fiber, and ways to balance nutritional needs with physical activity energy expenditure.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Christmas Island: What Are the Different Nutrients in Foods?
Curious Cindy is the only detective on Christmas Island. She is hired to go undercover and check the foods restaurants serve. Find out about nutrition with her.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Teen Health
Abundant resources regarding teens and their health, including nutrition, sexual health, mental health and teen development. Learn how to live a healthy lifestyle now in order to maintain a health one in your later years.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 4: Energy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the 'Food - a fact of life' website. Pupils will be able to understand why their bodies need energy, how much energy is in certain food types and who needs more...
Curated OER
Kids Health: About Kids Health
This page for the huge KidsHealth site gives you a jumping-off point and an overview of the site's content, purpose, and usage. With sections for parents, kids, and teens, KidsHealth has been online since 1995 and today it is accessed...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fizzy's Lunch Lab
Fizzy's Lunch Lab provides an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The Lunch Lab will provide practical and positive examples of healthy eating and regular exercise...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 8: Color Your World
In this lesson, students play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and brainstorm ways...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 1: Where Are the Soda Trees?
Using film clips from In Defense of Food and a team activity, students explore healthy eating habits. Students get excited about becoming food defenders and begin learning how to differentiate between food (whole and minimally processed)...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 9: Lettuce Turnip the Beet
In this lesson middle schoolers explore plant-based foods enjoyed by their own and other families and cultures and how to face challenges to healthy eating.
Other
Vegetarian Resource Group: Vegetarian in a Nutshell
This website on vegetarianism is organized into several, very brief sections. Here, read about vegetarian nutrition, recipes, and meat and dairy substitutes. Also included are the names of several books and learning materials -- for...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 5: Supersized
In this lesson plan, learners examine portion sizes and how our eyes, as well as food companies, may deceive us in estimating a healthy amount to eat. Through popcorn experiments, along with a clip from In Defense of Food, students learn...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 3: Claim Game
Using a clip from In Defense of Food and photos of food packaging, students uncover five "tricky techniques" companies use to sell food products. Then, students create plans to eat foods instead of phuds to avoid the allure of clever...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 2: Chemical Cuisine
By exploring the ingredients in various foods and phuds, students experience first-hand how phuds are engineered to taste irresistible. Students learn and discuss a new Food Rule around eating foods with easily pronounceable ingredients.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 7: Rooting for Plants
This is the first lesson in the "Mostly Plants" section. Students are introduced to the amazing variety of plant-based foods and relate that to MyPlate, our national dietary guidance. Watching a clip from In Defense of Food and learning...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Brown Bag Activity Plan
It's time for lunch! In this week-long adventure, children will explore numbers and counting in the context of healthy eating. They will learn about the five food groups and create a healthy lunch using foods from each food group. Each...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur's Cafe
Want to eat some healthy snacks? Try some favorite recipes, in this activity from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
Curated OER
Kids Health: Ready, Set, Breakfast!
Use this site to learn why breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. This article provides information on how breakfast jumpstarts your body and includes alternatives to eating cereal in the morning.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Body and Mind: Cool Treats, You Can Have It All
Eat fruits and vegetables every day. This website will help you do just that. Learn simple recipes for healthy dips, salads, smoothies, desserts, and veggie dishes, all of which are packed with the vitamins you need to stay healthy.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Dining Decisions
This interactive game has kids try to create a well-balanced, nutritious lunch. After selecting five foods, kids find out how they did. They learn what nutrients each healthy food choice provided and what was wrong with the poor food...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Body and Mind: Power Packing
If you are packing your own lunch, it's important to know what foods to prepare and how to pack them. This website provides tips for properly storing you sandwich, cold foods, and hot foods. Also included are tips for choosing healthy...
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...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Fruit and Veggies Matter
Learners explore fruits and vegetables. The activity includes a questionnaire that asks an individual's age, sex, and level of physical activity to determine the fruits and vegetables needed in an individual's diet. The resource consists...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Diet
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart reviewing the nature of diet in the context of exercise and the benefits of healthy eating when taking part in sports.
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Diet: The Only Real Hope for Arthritis
In addition to discussing the use of a vegan diet to lower the risk of arthritis, this article also talks about diet as a means of preventing other diseases and disorders.