Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah Act. 03: Just a Minute
Using the tradebook Just a Minute by Teddy Slater, 2nd graders will learn about what is needed for a healthy body. Students will draw and illustrate a book that will teach other about short activities that will support a healthy body.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Sickle Cell Has Many Faces
Information about Sickle Cell Disease: what it is, what causes it, who is most at risk for it, what the effects are, and how to control it through living a healthy lifestyle.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Epidemiology, Public Health, and You
Activities in this comprehensive interactive tutorial will help you explore various public health careers. In addition, you will learn about why ethical guidelines are necessary in epidemiological research; emerging and past public...
Other
National Multiple Sclerosis Society: Living With Ms
This site discusses the careful diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, treatments of the disease, and healthy living strategies with MS.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Sugar vs. Artificial Sweeteners
A curriculum unit that looks at digestion, carbohydrates, and the chemistry and history of sugar substitutes and how these differ from sugar. They will do activities where they research artificial sweeteners, look at making healthy...
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health: Health Information
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides a comprehensive resource on health issues. Browse hundreds of health topics using the alphabet index or click into health news especially for men, women, seniors, minorities, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, students must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students will design a...
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.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Body Mass Index (Bmi Calculator)
Learn about body mass index and how this number affects your overall health. Then plug in your own data to find your BMI.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Bacteria Growth Inquiry: Bodily Bacteria and Healthy Hygiene Habits
In this inquiry activity, groups of young scholars will generate investigable questions to explore the link between hygiene/cleanliness and bacteria growth/population. They will record their processes and reflections in a journal and...
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Why Is It Important to Eat Fruit?
Learn about the connection between eating fruit and preventing cardiovascular diseases, reducing the risk for diabetes, and maintaining a healthy body. Also, read about the nutrients that are found in fruits. Includes a link to further...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a basic lesson introducing food groups along with healthy choices having to due with nutrition.
Other
Cspi: The Need for Nutrition Labeling at Fast Food Restaurants [Pdf]
This 34-page document discusses obesity, nutrition labeling, the average American diet, the nutritional quality of foods from restaurants, and ways poor eating, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and premature death can be fought. Chapters...
PBS
Pbs: Fizzy's Lunch Lab: Fizzy's Balance Bots
Choose healthy foods to balance the robots' diets for this food pyramid game.
Other
Vegetarian Nutrition for Teenagers
This is a very brief article, which discusses ways in which teenagers can eat a healthy vegetarian diet. Here, read tips that will help vegetarians get the protein and nutrition they need to stay healthy.
Other
Crn Conflict Resolution Kit
Conflicts are part of life. Children do not go through it without experiencing conflict, so it's only fair that they are taught how to cope with it. This site provides a 12-step kit and a checklist to review progress. Each step is...