Niehs: Kids Environment Kids Health: Healthy Living

From examining how much sugar is in foods and looking at fruit and vegetable varieties to making mini rainbow tarts, this unit provides youngsters with a fabulous overview of proper nutrition and eating habits.

Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners...

Ellen and Elmo talk about what it means to be healthy. They explain that healthy means to take care of your body. Next, they show several different ways to be healthy. They, eat fruit, brush their teeth, wash their hands, and exercise.

Michelle Obama and Elmo explore health, such as eating a healthy lunch and reading. This could lead to a discussion of the importance of exercising, eating well, and improving your mind through reading.

Support children in living fun, active, and healthy lives with a video on physical and health literacy. Whether its learning basic skills like running, jumping, and throwing, or making healthy choices about the foods they eat,...

Gordon shares some tips to stay healthy. He talks about the importance of hand washing, sneezing into your arm, and not touching your face. This would be a good film to show before flu season.

Through discussion and role-play, youngsters learn how to take care of their health. Stuffed toys become "patients" which are cared for by children and taught healthy habits. Having some medical props such as stethoscopes, tongue...

Making wise lifestyle choices means making decisions that will positively impact overall health. Help young learners identify active, healthy choices with a collage project in which they cut out pictures from magazines depicting healthy...

Hosting a Healthy Field Day will take a lot of planning and organization, but with a lot of parent participation it can come together very well. The resource describes seven stations of the ten that were presented. Each of these has a...

Walk your way to health with this great resource! Walking is a valuable physical activity that can be done frequently and with ease by learners of all ages. "Warm up" by reviewing the benefits of physical activity with your class...