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Visual Learning Systems
Understanding the Five Major Food Groups and Planning a Balanced Diet
This video provides an overview of the five major food groups and their corresponding nutrients. It explains the grains, vegetables, fruits, milk and dairy, and meat and protein groups, highlighting the different types of foods within...
Rock A Lingua
Frutas (Fruits)
Take a cheery trip through the produce section with a Spanish song about las frutas! Listeners learn about la sandía, la pera, and mucho mas as they follow along with an illustrated lyric sheet.
Rock A Lingua
Las Frutas (Fruits)
¿Te gustan las fresas? ¿Las uvas? ¿Qué hay de los higos? Learn the names for eight different kids of fruit with a fun Spanish video, which advises viewers to eat their fruit in order to grow healthy and strong.
PBS
What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
Gigantopithecus was the greatest of the great apes! Whatever became of them? Take a journey to Asia and explore the forests and grasslands that were once home to the large primate using a video from an extentsive biology playlist....
American Chemical Society
What is a Complete Breakfast?
Start your day—and your class—off right with an interesting video about breakfast! The resource, part of the American Chemical Society's Reactions series, tackles the most important meal of the day. The narrator explains what makes for a...
American Chemical Society
Why Are Avocados So Awesome?
Is it just coincidence that avocados and awesome both begin with the letter A? Introduce young nutritionists to a super food with some super powers using a video from the Reactions playlist. Scientists from the American Chemical Society...
SciShow Kids
Like Fruit? Thank a Bee!
Bees play a crucial role in pollination. In fact, without bees, a lot of fruits and vegetables would not exist if it weren't for bees. Watch a video that explains and demonstrates how bees pollinate plants.
SciShow
Why Tomatoes are Fruits, and Strawberries aren't Berries
Berries are fruits that come from a single ovary with multiple seeds. Video explains how produce is classified based on what part of the plant it comes from. It covers vegetables, fruit, nuts, and subsets of each. It also stresses...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fruits
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on fruits. Using these materials, students will understand that eating whole fruits each day helps to...
Other
Pearson Ole: Untamed Science: The Chemistry of a Smelly Fruit
Here in the United States fruits we're accustomed to a handful of fruits such as apples, oranges, and bananas. But there are a lot of different fruits out there that while rare in the U.S. are extremely common in other places of the...
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Animals and Plants: Collecting and Sorting
Explore the outdoors and watch as these children make and sort collections of things that come from nature. [1:26]
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms
This video will show you how flowering plants reproduce. Travel with pollen as it transferred to the ovary so that the egg can be fertilized! Learn how animals and adaptation of the plant allows for the transfer of pollen. Teachers can...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Resolving to Eat Healthier
National Public Radio talks with Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard MD and nutritionist, about changes that need to be made in the 1992 US Food Guide Pyramid. Interesting as an introduction to this topic, with links to related stories.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Angiosperms
This podcast presents a brief overview of flowering, seed plants called angiosperms. Text and audio available. [0:49]