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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Tips for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help kids learn about nutrition and healthy eating, with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Sea World Parks & Entertainment

Sea World: Bony Fish Diet and Eating Habits

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a general rundown of the diet and eating habits of bony fish. Content includes a focus on food preferences and resources, food intake, methods of collecting and eating food, and fish as biological control agents.
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Texas Heart Institute

Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Nutrition

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page article with a complete overview of the importance of good nutrition in reducing your risk for health problems, including facts on nutrients, vitamins, body mass, snacking tips, and ChooseMyPlate.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Nutrition and Personal Fitness

For Students 9th - 10th
The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of diet and nutrition. The questions evaluate students on nutrition and their personal fitness.
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Other

Nutrition, Health & Heart Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information about nutrition, health, and heart disease. It also discusses specific types of vitamin and mineral supplements you can take to improve or maintain your health.
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University of California

Ucla: Student Nutrition and Body Image Awareness Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about food, nutrition, fitness, and how to balance health and college activities. Topics included are weight, fitness, diet, nutrition, and body image. The resource consists of information on workshops, classes,...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Nutrition: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five multiple-choice questions about nutrition. After submitting answers, students can review the material.
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Harvard University

Harvard School of Public Health: The Nutrition Source

For Students 9th - 10th
The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health offers this valuable resource. The latest medical research is presented on topics including fiber, carbohydrates, fats, alcohol, healthy weight, and much more.
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Other

British Nutrition Foundation: Food a Fact of Life (11 14 Years)

For Students 6th - 9th
A rich collection of eleven learning modules that cover a wide range of topics, including nutrition, diet and health, food science, agriculture, food preparation, food processing, food safety, and more. Modules have PowerPoints,...
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Nourish Interactive: Nutrition Education

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Other

Nourish Interactive: Nutrition Education

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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US Department of Agriculture

Food and Nutrition Topics a to Z

For Students 9th - 10th
More than just food and nutrition links can be found in this index of health topics. The USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center provides access to a world of health information.
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American Heart Association

American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition Center: Sodium

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Harvard University

Harvard School of Public Health: The Nutrition Source: What Should I Eat?

For Students 9th - 10th
A lot of confusing and erroneous information exists regarding proper nutrition. Get the correct facts and improve your healthy eating knowledge here.
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Vegetarian Diet a Healthy Alternative

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the benefits of a well-balanced vegetarian diet. Here, read about how vegetarianism can promote a healthy lifestyle and help maintain a healthy body. Learn how vegetarianism is safe and healthy for everyone, even...
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Other

Nutrition.gov

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive resource for information pertaining to health, nutrition and well being. Explore this site to learn more about food safety, food facts, health management and more.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Uncle Sam and the American Diet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, learners will closely examine two food nutrition guideline posters from the USDA to determine the government's purpose in creating such guidelines and how they have changed over time. Students will also question how...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: Diet Wars: Teacher's Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
With this Teacher's Guide to "Diet Wars," students will learn about the USDA food pyramid, evaluate their own food consumption, and examine their school lunch program for nutrition and health purposes. This FRONTLINE documentary examines...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Is Dieting Ok for Kids?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article addresses some of the problems associated with dieting and urges children to consider exercising to lose or maintain weight rather than eating less. Included are tips for making exercising and eating right simple and fun.
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Food and Nutrition Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a wide array of nutritional information. Included are articles on food and food groups, the connection between health and food, and healthy eating choices.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Nutrition

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the passage "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Nutrition," and complete the related five-question quiz.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Background Information

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Teach children about nutrition with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Spot a Fad Diet

For Students 9th - 10th
Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to change all the time. And yet ads routinely come out claiming to have THE answer about what we should eat. So how do we distinguish what's actually...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: The Deal With Diets

For Students 9th - 10th
There are numerous diets advertised that claim to be healthy and effective. Which is the right one for you? This article includes dieting tips that are both safe and of benefit to your body. Links to related sites are also included.

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