Curated Video
Making Healthy Choices
Coach Socrates and Miss Palomine talk about making healthy choices and then give several examples of choosing a healthy activity over an unhealthy activity.
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Hurray-hurrah For Broccoli
Abby sings a song about broccoli. She talks about her first encounter with broccoli. By tasting the new food, she discovers a favorite. If you like talking broccoli, you will love this video.
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Healthy Cookie
A young girl shares her recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies. She shows the step-by-step process. It's a delicious treat using healthier ingredients. Yum!
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Pbs Learning Media: Portion Distortion
This video gives viewers an inside look at what registered dietitian, Pat Mizerak, calls "portion distortion." [1:16]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 5: Serve More, Eat More
Discover that when food and drinks are served to us in large containers we tend to eat more even when we're not hungry. Food companies use this strategy to sell more products. [3:46]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 2: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Learn about how the Western Diet, made up of lots of meat and highly processed foods full of salt, sugar and fat, leads to big profits for food companies and poor health for people. [3:35]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 1: Meet Anthony Scavotto
Learn how a real middle school student, Anthony Scavotto, and his family struggle to figure out what to eat to be healthy so he can play sports without getting tired, like other kids his age. [2:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Home Gardening
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos promote the benefits of growing fresh fruits and vegetables in home gardens, by showing students how soil, water, and sunlight are the key ingredients to a basic garden. [3:54]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sodium
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos provide an informative overview of the role of sodium in proper nutrition. Students learn how the body only needs a small amount of sodium daily, and too much sodium can cause dehydration, drowsiness and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Calories
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos provide practical and positive examples of healthy eating with an emphasis on calories. Students learn about how calories are used in digestion to turn into energy, but consuming too many calories means...
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Pbs Learning Media: Food Rainbow
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, the vegetables sing a song about foods being different colors, and students learn about the nutritional benefits of eating an assortment of colorful food. [1:36]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Healthy Kids Project: Healthy Choices a to Z
Learn why eating fruits and vegetables is a healthy choice. [0:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Play With Food
Expand vocabulary and learn about healthy eating at the same time! Use this video to practice "P" words that make up this healthy pizza. [1:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Action City Sprouts
City Sprouts is a community gardening program that promotes healthy eating, hard work, and nature education in urban communities. Hear from the kids in the program as they plant and harvest vegetables, and learn to cook new foods, in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Mister Chris and Friends: Making Soup: Activity
Join Mister Chris as he pretends to make a pot of soup, singing as he adds imaginary ingredients of many different colors! This activity invites imaginative play, as well as gross motor skill play, and shares the ideas around healthy...
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Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Katerina Finally Tries a New Food
Katerina discovers that she really likes bell peppers! She even tries carrots, but doesn't like them. Teach kids to understand that trying foods is important. After they have tried a new food, they can decide if they like it or not. [1:24]
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Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Trying Tomatoes
The kids taste tomatoes from the school garden, but Katerina doesn't want to try one. Help kids understand that trying new foods is important. After they have tasted it, they can decide if they like it or not. Included is a recipe for...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Healthy Eating
Only a small percentage of Americans eat a nutritious diet. A Harvard professor weighs in on his ideas about what we need to do to improve the American diet. Aired Oct. 8, 2010 [18:38]
Other
Chef Solus in the Balanced Hike Adventure
A video illustrating the importance of a balanced diet. See what Chef Solus has to teach the kids about nutrition while they are out on a hike. [4:51]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Experiment Videos: How Much Sugar Is in Soda?
Check out a few different ways you can find out the amount of sugar you're drinking in your soda or fruit juice. [4:09]
Reina Takahashi
Vimeo: Reina Takahashi: Chomp
Animated video communicates to children that eating vegetables can be fun. [1:28]
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.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Michelle Obama and Elmo Healthy Habits
First Lady Michelle Obama visits Sesame Street part of Sesame Workshops Healthy Habits For Life initiative. Mrs. Obama and her pal Elmo talk about eating right, exercising regularly and being a healthy and positive role model for...
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Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Family Gardens
In this video, Samuel Davis (age 11, Louisiana) describes his use of garden vegetables in his Healthy Lunchtime Challenge winning recipe for Sam's Southern Savoring Salmon Supreme (S5). Sam shows off his family's backyard garden, where...