Read Works
Read Works: Healthy Eating, Healthy Planet
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how changing our eating habits and food sources can positively impact our world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Parent Child Communication: Promoting Healthy Youth
Depression as a result of sexual activity can usually be avoided by having a strong, healthy relationship with one's parents. It also relies on open lines of communication in regards to sexual activity. This information is discussed in...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Health House: Food, Fitness and Fun: 24/7
Engage your students in what it means to live a healthy life. They'll learn how to read food labels and understand basic nutrition. They'll take part in fun active play and learn about exercise benefits. Learn why healthy habits such as...
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Nourish Interactive: Nutrition Education
Games for children teach nutrition concepts, while tools for parents and teachers help promote eating healthy, exercising daily, and setting nutrition and fitness goals. Access to entire collection of resources requires free registration.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Virus Information and Prevention
What are viruses and how do they spread? Find resources for students of all ages that explore the nature of viruses, how they are transmitted, and the healthy habits we can all engage in to prevent their spread. From the common cold to...
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Nourish Interactive: Nutrition Education
Games for children teach nutrition concepts, while tools for parents and teachers help promote eating healthy, exercising daily, and setting nutrition and fitness goals. Access to entire collection of resources requires free registration.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Fat: Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss
Evaluate current guidelines for a healthy diet, compare them to one's own eating habits and learn safe behaviors for maintaining a healthy weight. Analyze the food pyramid, fast-food and health-food nutrition and the causes of obesity.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Healthy Weight Pyramid Tool
Use this healthy weight pyramid tool to calculate your appropriate weight according to your body type and then learn how to maintain that weight level.
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Canal Kids: Saude (Health for Kids in Portuguese)
A very informative and fun site children can use to learn about taking care of their health. In addition to information about the body, the senses, the brain, vaccines, and healthy habits, the site provides a brief history of medicine....
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Circulatory System Internet Workshop
This site features a circulatory system internet workshop focused on diseases and healthy living. Students and teachers will benefit from the resources linked to this site.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic
A comprehensive resource for timely and accurate medical information from experts at Mayo Clinic. Content includes information on almost all diseases and conditions, a guide to healthy living, first-aid and self-care information.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Respiratory System Health
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Many of the diseases related to smoking are called lifestyle diseases: diseases that are caused by choices that people make in their daily lives. For example, the...
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Recreation & Health for Children
Japanese content. The site aims to promote physical fitness for children and provides news items and information on fitness tests, how to exercise, where you to play sports, and how to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. You can...
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Alliance for a Healthier Generation
This resource is a website targeting teens who want to live a healthy lifestyle. Tips about good nutrition, ways to improve food offerings at school, and stories about teens who have made a difference. Free registration is required for...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Healthy Eating
Provides tips for implementing five of the best strategies to improve nutrition and encourage smart eating habits in toddlers to teens.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition Center: Sodium
Learn the importance of sodium in our daily diets as well as the negative effects of excess salt in a person's diet. Contains fact sheets, quizzes and slideshows.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Physical Activity: Get Moving!
Learn about the health benefits of exercise. Content includes helpful tips on how to incorporate activity into your daily life and a link to the association's guidelines for improving heart health through fitness.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's Great to Be Me!
This lesson addresses the similarities and differences among people. Incorporating the literature of Eric Carle and a virtual field trip focusing on healthy habits and the five senses, young scholars will have a greater sense of their...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Jamaica: Human Body: Healthy and Hygienic Habits During the Day
Surf the waves with Courtney. Find out how to stay fit and healthy, just like her.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
In this lesson, students evaluate their eating habits, focusing on the ways in which one can assess whether or not his or her diet is nutritious. Students will work in small groups to design a menu for a healthy lunch and write a...
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 1: Where Are the Soda Trees?
Using film clips from In Defense of Food and a team activity, middle schoolers explore healthy eating habits. Students get excited about becoming food defenders and begin learning how to differentiate between food (whole and minimally...
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda Kids Home Page
Learn about food safety and keeping healthy on the FDA Kids' Home Page. This site includes colorful graphics, great information, and it is easy to navigate.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 5: Supersized
In this lesson, students examine portion sizes and how our eyes, as well as food companies, may deceive us in estimating a healthy amount to eat. Through popcorn experiments, along with a clip from In Defense of Food, students learn how...