Nutrition
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Nutrition 2: Good Food, Good Health - Explore ways in which food provides energy and materials for our bodies. Grades 3-5 (Y)
Nutrition 1: Food and the Digestive System - Students learn about the digestive system. To begin to explore where nutrients come from, as well as their importance for particular tasks in the body. Grades 3-5 (Y)
Nutrition 3: Got Broccoli? - In this lesson, students are asked to look critically at the advertising claims of foods they eat, recognizing those that ascribe unrealistic, emotional, or psychological benefits to foods, rather than nutritional benefits. Students will then create an original advertising campaign for a “forgotten” vegetable, presenting compelling, factual information about the nutrients found in these foods and the benefits derived from them. grades 3-5 (Y)
Global Breakfast - Students explore the concept of global interdependence by investigating the origins of the foods they eat. Students will recognize the fact that many of the foods they eat, and the ingredients that go into making them, are produced in other countries. They will speculate about why certain foods are produced in different regions of the world, and what might happen if the production and/or distribution of these goods was to stop. Grades 3-5 (Y)
National Watermelon Promotion Board - Lessons, activity sheets, coloring pages and recipes are all downloadable for free. For more information or tools to assist you teach about nutrition (Y, M, O, T)
Akamai Backyard - You are in for a treat! Akamai Backyard is a website that is an audio-visual feast highlighting the amazing accomplishments of Felicia Cowden, a homeschool mom in Kauai, Hawaii, and her 7 middle school students. While looking at world challenges and studying Hawaiian culture, she and the students decided to turn discouraging lessons into a joyful empowering process of creating solutions in their own backyard. Since Kauai has to import over 90% of their resources, providing sustainable resources was an interesting challenge for a mom with no gardening background. Akamai means intelligence or common sense in Hawaiian and reflects the attitude of using the natural resources found in your own backyard to learn while doing. Akamai Backyard used permaculture and Hawaiian farming methods to create edible landscaping which is sufficient enough to provide 90% of their school meals and feed their family off 1/3 of the yard of their 1/3 acre home while only producing about 1/2 can of garbage per week. The video on the site would be a great resource for any age student. (Y, M, O, T)
Food Detectives Fight Bac - Kids, We need your help to fight an enemy...bacteria! Bacteria lives on the food you eat if it isn't cooked and handled properly. It also lives on dirty hands. Eeeww! Come with us, and we'll show you how to fight this disgusting enemy. Play the Game! ()
Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Materials - The Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Campaign was launched by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to encourage and teach children, parents, and caregivers to eat healthy and be physically active every day. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ offers resources and tools to convey and reinforce healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the MyPyramid Food Guidance System. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ is about making America's children healthier. It's about practical suggestions that will help you motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Campaign messages and materials are fun for children and informative for caregivers. ()
Food Safety Education For Kids & Teens - Be Food Safe Activity Book, Food Safety at Home Podcasts, Food Safety Mobile Game and much, much more! (Y, M, O, T)
Fruit and Vegetable Publications - The Explore the World with Fruits and Vegetables campaign provides fun ideas for nutrition and education professionals to encourage schoolchildren and their parents to eat more fruits and vegetables by exploring new tastes provided by cuisines from around the world. From the CDC. (Y, M, O, T)
The MyActivity Pyramid - The MyActivity Pyramid handout is based on the new 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid. The handout is designed to help children ages 6 to 11 include a variety of physical activities in their daily lives. The 8.5- by 11-inch handout was piloted with more than 250 students in both urban and rural settings. (Y, M)
Staying Healthy - Find out how to take care of your body, eat healthy, and stay fit! (Y, M)
Pass the Plate - From Disney - Explore the global world of recipes. (Y, M, O, T)
Learn to be Healthy.org - With LearntobeHealthy.org, students can play cool health science education games and activities, explore interactive webquests, and learn ways to make their body strong and healthy. LearntobeHealthy's web-based kits meet many National and State Education standards and make health education fun. (Y, M, O, T)
Kidnetic.com - Kidnetic.com is a cool site for kids like you — kids who like to play hard and have fun. Kidnetic.com lets you tap into your own energy so you can feel great all day long. The Kidnetic.com Parents’ Guide provides lots of ideas and tips to get the whole family involved in making healthier food choices, managing portion size, and getting active together. (Y, M, O, T)
Body and Mind - Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hip site for kids includes information and games on Diseases, Food and Nutrition, Your Safety, Your Life, Your Body and Physical Activity. (Y, M, O, T)
Smallstep Kids - Find out COOL stuff about FOOD and what it can do for YOU! Find out how eating healthy can be fun! (Y, M)
Smallstep Teachers - Calling all teachers and educators! Check out the new SmallSteps education program below. Developed in partnership with Scholastic™, materials have been designed to help 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students build Language Arts and Math skills as they learn about health and fitness. We hope that you will share this valuable program with your class, and help young students build a healthy foundation for life! (Y)
MyPyramid Blast Off Game - An interactive computer game where kids can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. “Fuel” tanks for each food group help students keep track of how their choices fit into MyPyramid. (Y, M)
Healthfinder.gov kids - Know lots of ways to be healthy and have fun! Brought to you by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Y, M, O, T)
Food Is Elementary - Food is Elementary© (FIE) is a unique and vibrant curriculum introduced into schools and communities that teach children about food, nutrition, culture, and healthy living. (Y)
Apples - From atozteacherstuff.com (Y,M)
Nutrition – A Mini Unit - March National Nutrition Month - This unit will help you learn about making healthier food choices using interesting projects and age appropriate activities. (Y, M, O, T)
Whole grains lesson plan - Scroll down to see the lessons; created for older adults but well-suited for use with children (Y, M, O, T)
Cereal grains - Students will learn the basics about cereal grains. They will learn the main seven types of grains, the nutritional value found in cereal, and they will cook with a grain. (Y,M)
The whole grain guide - lesson on what whole grains are and the health implications of avoiding them (Y, M, O, T)
Healthy whole grains - Selection of grain resources from the Kansas State Research and Extension Office (Y, M, O, T)
Harvest of Fear - If you are including lessons of health and nutrition in your homeschool, don't miss this PBS website about the controversial topic of genetically modified (GM) foods. There is an accompanying teacher's guide for educators linked at the bottom. (M,O,T)
New Food Pyramid - You have probably heard that there is a new Food Pyramid out there that better represents healthy eating choices. MyPyramid.gov is an interactive guide to the new Food Pyramid and has lots of neat features. (Y, M, O, T)
