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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 10: Join the Movement

6th - 8th
Learn about the food movement and how people all across the country are getting involved in growing food, shopping at farmers markets, and advocating for healthy food and food justice for all. [3:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 9: Secrets of the French

6th - 8th
Learn that culture can be a very powerful way to teach us how to eat, and how the French have traditions and customs that help them eat well. [4:39]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 8: Vegetable Surprise

6th - 8th
See how when students have a hand in producing healthy food they are more likely to try new and unfamiliar ingredients. Students in a summer camp get to make homemade pizzas using a wide variety of familiar and unusual vegetables that...
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Pbs Learning Media: Animal Fitness

Pre-K - 1st
Engage your Kindergarten through 5th grade students this activity that combines motor and listening skills. Using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sports Fitness

Pre-K - 1st
In this Kindergarten through 5th grade Kids in Motion video, students learn about fitness and sports. Students follow along with their teacher to perform exercises that can be found in all different sports. [12:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Survival Fitness

Pre-K - 1st
This interactive Kindergarten through 5th grade activity allows students to learn survival skills while using psychomotor and listening skills! Students follow along with their teacher as they act out the important survival skills they...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Bingo

K - 1st
This Kindergarten through 5th grade activity puts a spin on traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Finding a new partner for each exercise, students will do the exercise then sign their partner's paper. Students will...
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Pbs Learning Media: Minute to Win It

K - 1st
This Kindergarten through 5th grade activity is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It! Students form into groups of 4-5 and perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points. [7:17]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wheel of Fitness

Pre-K - 1st
This Kindergarten through 5th grade video is similar to Wheel of Fortune. Students are chosen to spin the Wheel of Fitness and perform the exercise shown. [8:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: Expert Q&a Dr. Fatima Cody Standford

Pre-K - 1st
Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford discusses how families can deal with getting and staying fit, in this video from Arthur:"Arthur Weighs In."
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Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Action the Friedman Family

Pre-K - 1st
The Friedman family talks about how they safely evacuated their home during a fire, and how they healed from the experience, in this video from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: Calcium

1st - 4th
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos provide an informative overview of calcium. Students learn what foods provide good sources of calcium, and how calcium helps grow strong and healthy bones. [4:02]
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Pbs Learning Media: Home Gardening

1st - 4th
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

1st - 4th
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: Food Choices

1st - 4th
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos promote the importance of understanding nutritional information and eating a well-balanced diet, focusing on food choices. Students learn about different types of foods from around the world, how to read...
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Pbs Learning Media: Calories

1st - 4th
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: Pyramid and Plate

1st - 4th
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy interviews Food Pyramid, who tells him that he's retiring! But wait, there's a new food helper in town-- Food Plate! Students learn about the idea of the Food Plate, that divides the average meal...
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Pbs Learning Media: Paint by Blunders

1st - 4th
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy and the kids are painting a rainbow salad until Uncle Freddy interrupts, and they teach him that vibrant colored natural foods are much more healthy and have more vitamins and minerals than ones...
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Pbs Learning Media: Food Rainbow

1st - 4th
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: Seafood Shanty Sing a Long

1st - 4th
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, the vegetables sing a song about the different types of seafood, and students learn that seafood comes in a variety of forms and can be a great source of protein. [1:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: And the Crowd Goes Nuts

1st - 4th
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, the kids are playing a baseball game but they need energy, so the Professor calls time to give them a quick snack of nuts and explains that nuts are full of protein and good fats, and give you enough...
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Pbs Learning Media: Don't Forget the Nuts

1st - 4th
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, the food group sings about why nuts are important to eat, and students learn that they contain protein and good fats to give them lots of energy for the day. [1:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Mixed Nuts

1st - 4th
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy introduces the Nuts! -- Almond, Pistachio, and Hazelnut -- to talk to students about why nuts are a healthy food choice that should be included in their diets, and to explain that each specific nut...
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Pbs Learning Media: Balanced Meals

1st - 4th
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan give an overview of food and nutrition topics, emphasize a positive change in nutrition by using a balanced food pyramid, and teach students how to connect foods on the school lunch...