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Curated OER

Kids Health: Eating for Sports

For Students 3rd - 5th
Know what foods you need to eat in order to stay competitive. This website offers suggestion for kids who are active in sports and includes hints for eating healthy and staying hydrated.
Website
PBS

Pbs Newshour Extra: School Lunch Gets a Makeover

For Students 9th - 10th
President Obama signed in a law called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act which provides breakfast and dinner at school. In conjunction with Michelle Obama's initiative against child obesity, this law requires schools to provide...
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Other

Alliance for a Healthier Generation

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource is a website targeting teens who want to live a healthy lifestyle. Tips about good nutrition, ways to improve food offerings at school, and stories about teens who have made a difference. Free registration is required for...
Interactive
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: El Enigma De La Nutricion

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an interactive game that facilitates the learning concepts and processes related to human nutrition. Once you finish the game, you will be given an evaluation that will allow you to have access to other games and activities.
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Health (La Salud)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An exercise designed to teach Spanish-speaking ELLs about healthy eating and the vocabulary of food and nutrition. Students answer comprehension questions based on a short reading about losing weight. Instructions in Spanish; exercise in...
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Read Works

Read Works: The Body Shop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the types of foods needed to fuel the body for sports and exercise. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: An Apple a Day [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Distinguish between fruits and vegetables through a sorting game, learn to appreciate new foods through a tasting activity, create funny food friends with magazine cutouts of healthy foods and dramatize preparing a health meal or snack.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces regulation and information as two tools used by government to promote fair competition and complete information in a market economy. Using the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act as a case study, learners explore the...