Elementary CORE Academy
Food Foldable
There's nothing as satisfying as a crunchy carrot or a juicy apple! Teach your middle and high schoolers about healthy eating habits with a set of nutrition activities. After analyzing the model of the food pyramid, learners apply the...
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Eat Healthy • Be Active Community Workshops
Recipe makeovers, healthy alternatives, quick tips for a nutritious lifestyle...this 187-page document has it all! Don't miss a thorough packet of workshop activities and handouts designed to support your teaching of the...
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners...
Skcin
Sun Safe Summer Activity Pack
Eight activities make up a packet all about sun safety. Scholars mix and match how animals stay sun safe, dress paper dolls in appropriate summer clothing, make a cootie catcher, solve word puzzles, grow sunflowers, examine...
Wild BC
Greenhouse Gas Guzzlers
Teams of six to eight players imagine that they are driving in a vehicle and collect balls that represent carbon dioxide emissions based on their different activities. "Greenhouse Gas Guzzler" cards tell teams how many balls to collect...
Leadership Challenge
That's a Chop!: Developing Leadership Trough Teamwork
"The more trusted people feel, the better they innovate." To conclude a series of activities designed for a leadership seminar, participants engage in a trust building activity.
River Dell Regional School District
Nutrition Project
A salad of nutrition-themed videos can be enjoyed by your health class as a wrap-up to the nutrition unit. Groups select a topic and create a two-three minute skit or commercial to be filmed and shared. If you assign each group a...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Make a Prototype/test the Design
Mke and test a prototype of your healthy fast food meal.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Food Labels Tell the Story!
Read about the building blocks of food and how to read food labels to make better choices about what you eat.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Food Supplements Affect Weight Gain of Juvenile Mice
As your mom and dad always tell you, a healthy diet is important to good health. This project is designed to see what happens to mice when they are allowed to load up on sugary snacks. Do you think that they will gain excess weight? Do...
Other
Fast Food Fun
Use your knowledge of spreadsheets to analyze the calories and fat content of fast food choices. This project gives links to a USDA site and a final report format. A sample spreadsheet and grading rubric is also provided.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Health
Considering price and smart food choices, plan out a healthy fast food meal.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal
Using the engineering design process, develop and market a healthy fast food children's meal.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Math
Analyze a sampling of real data to determine how healthy fast food meals for children are.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Supersizing
Understand how portion size affects healthy eating habits.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Communicate Your Results
Create an advertisement for your newly created healthy fast food children's meal.
Read Works
Read Works: You Are What You Eat
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about vegetable choices in school lunches. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Typical Fast Food Meal
Compare a sample fast food meal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPlate guidelines.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Approach and Design Proposal
Decide which of your children's meal options is best, and work with your team to develop a more detailed design proposal
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: A Legal Matter
Explore whether or not fast food companies should be liable for damages if their customers become obese.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal:refine the Final Children's Meal
Analyze feedback and think about how to improve your fast food children's meal.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Art
Explore how attractive packaging sells kids meals at fast food restaurants.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Biology
Analyze a children's meal from a local fast food restaurant to confirm or deny the presence of fat, protein, simple carbohydrates (sugar) and complex carbohydrates (starch).
abcteach
Abcteach: Science: Health and Nutrition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary to middle school students can learn from the resources here about food and nutrition. In particular is a lesson plan and worksheet on the food pyramid guidelines issued by the USDA in 2005.
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