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Feeding America
At the online home of one of the largest hunger-relief agencies in America, find extensive reporting and analysis of the problem of hunger in the United States, along with information about its network of food banks, a quiz to test...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Mission Possible: Spy a Book! (Bilingual Resources)
Explore history, culture, adventures, spies, secret codes, and mysteries through this collection literary activities and resources. Includes poems, clip art, and ideas for crafts.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Innovative Ideas to Curb Food Waste
Article reports on some interesting strategies that schools and restaurants are using to help raise awareness and combat food waste. Includes video.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 4 18 16: Salads Disguised as Cakes Are a Hit in Japan
Read about and see stunning pictures of food art salads that look like cakes. Includes video.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Nutrition and Diet
Explain how different foods and eating a healthy diet can affect a person's metabolism. Also learn reasons why vitamins and minerals are critical to a healthy diet.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Lunch in Outer Space!
Students learn about the unique challenges astronauts face while eating in outer space. They explore different food choices and food packaging. Students learn about the engineering design process, and then, as NASA engineering teams,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Introduction to the Characteristics of Life
Earth is the only place we have found life so far. The following tutorial provides a unique look into the characteristics of life.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Japan's Fake Food Is a Real Art
Learn about the fake food industry in Japan.
Curated OER
Kids Health: About Kids Health
This page for the huge KidsHealth site gives you a jumping-off point and an overview of the site's content, purpose, and usage. With sections for parents, kids, and teens, KidsHealth has been online since 1995 and today it is accessed...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Experience Colonial Life
Experience colonial life through a variety of narratives. Topics include the African-American experience, animals, Christmas, clothing, family, food, gardening, manners, politics, religion, tools, and trades.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Francais Interactif Bon Appetit!
Wonderful, interactive French video clips of all things related to food in France - from preparation to purchasing, dining and customs. Content includes an extensive vocabulary list, well categorized video, and more.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 08: Language Arts Writing Experience
Teachers will model sentences about their favorite foods. Students will mimic these sentences about their own favorite foods and will illustrate pictures of them. All pages will be assembled into a class book.
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 05: Shared Reading: Greedy Cat's Breakfast
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Joy Cowley's book, Greedy Cat's Breakfast. Students will participate in making food glyphs of their favorite breakfast foods. Students will use the glyphs to...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Why Walk?
This lesson plan engages students in reading activities related to James Marshall's book, Yummers. Students will analyze the diet of the main character and determine what made the character sick.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Familiarizing Students With the 5 Food Groups
This module provides a multiple-day unit about the five food groups. Teachers of the unit will explicitly teach students about analyzing charts. Then students will gain exposure with written and visual resources to help apply the...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Counting on Good Health
This multi-day lesson engages students in exploring healthy habits and components of the food pyramid. Students will describe their favorite foods that will be part of a class tasting party at the end of the days.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 02: Healthy Foods
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Russell Hoban's book, Bread and Jam for Frances. Students will listen to the story and discuss, and after, 2nd graders will place the foods from their favorite...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Food Pyramid
This four-part lesson plan engages students in oral, written, and artistic tasks as they learn about the Food Pyramid. Students will learn the importance of eating a healthy diet.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Balanced Diet
In this instructional activity, 2nd graders will learn about the components of a balanced diet. Students will analyze charts and then self-report their own foods in categories. Several fiction and nonfiction books are listed as...
US Department of Agriculture
Fsis Recalls: Meat, Poultry and Egg Products
Press releases from 2000 that document meat and poultry recalls in the United States. Contains archives of recalls in previous years.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Listeria
Answers to the most frequently asked questions on Listeriosis - symptoms, causes, targets, treatment and more. Includes technical and general terms.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Food for Kids
Students participate in simple cooking activities and learn how cooking makes it easier to eat some foods, such as popcorn. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
Other
Mississippi Public Broadcasting: Ed Said
Meet Ed Said, a nine-year-old purple-haired hard-core fruit-and-veggie rapper. Learn nutrition facts from Ed by watching and playing his videos and songs. Includes many print-and-color activities about eating healthy fruit- and...
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
Media Smarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for learners. For this lesson, young students will learn about online advertisements targeted to children. Learners will play on online game; they will create an advertisement for...