What's Happening to Your Body

Got milk? Or almonds, sardines, or tofu? Calcium is important throughout life, but especially so for developing bodies. If teens do not consume enough calcium while they are growing, they are at a much higher risk of osteoporosis and...

Are serving sizes for different foods always appropriate for what you need? In this hands-on activity, learners work in groups to estimate what one serving size of various foods are, and then evaluate their hypotheses by measuring...

How does what you eat compare to an NFL football player? The final video in a 10-part series explains the nutrition requirements at the extreme level of an NFL player. The instructor explains the key nutrients and their nutritional...

Learners explore digestion/nutrition and utilize scientific investigation skills. They complete meal logs for several days and graph their results. After analyzing their data, they write formal lab reports.

Students explore basic nutrition concepts to help them select healthy diet, evaluate food intake, discuss major food labeling issues, design labels for food products, examine history of food packaging development and how packaging...

For this reproduction worksheet, students identify the causes which contribute to secondary sex characteristics to develop. Then they determine when the adolescent growth spurt begins and ends for girls and for boys. Students also...

Students discover the basic nutritional information for different foods.  In this nutrition activity students classify items, identify what a balanced diet is and determine what recipes are healthy. 

Students observe seeds growth and examine the different parts of the seedling. In this biology instructional activity, students compare the growth of seeds planted in soil and in hydroponics. They record their observations in their...

Students examine the dietary guidelines for young children.  In this healthy diet instructional activity students examine the issues surrounding the children's diets. 

Young scholars understand the importance of physical fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle.  In this health lesson plan students create a display and presentation about what they learned.