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PBS

Pbs Teachers: An Apple a Day [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Distinguish between fruits and vegetables through a sorting game, learn to appreciate new foods through a tasting activity, create funny food friends with magazine cutouts of healthy foods and dramatize preparing a health meal or snack.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Evaluating Dog Food

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Examine dog food nuggets made from different ingredients to discover which nuggets are more likely to clean the teeth surface during a dog's normal chewing activity. Explore the correlation between cost of the food and its teeth-cleaning...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: About All You Can Eat: Feast or Famine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the theory that including desert plants such as mesquite and cactus in a diet can help control obesity and diabetes. Design a scientific experiment that will test this hypothesis, using control variables, observation and...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Fast Fats: An Analysis of America's Obsession With Fast Food

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Analyze parts of a food label, and determine the amount of fat and calories in average foods. Conduct an observational experiment and examine the food choices of classmates.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: My Pyramid Food Pyramid: Am I Eating Right?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teacher-created flipchart takes students through a short examination of food groups as outlined in the MyPyramd dietary guidelines. [The U.S. government set aside its MyPyramid dietary guidelines in...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Lesson Plan z.com: Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
LessonPlanZ.com is an online resource for teachers to find lesson plans and other teaching resources.
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Graphic
Other

Philip Mc Rae: From Distraction to Addiction?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To better understand the scope of physical, mental and social consequences of digital technologies in areas such as exercise, homework, identity formation, distraction, cognition, learning, technology compulsions, nutrition and sleep...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What's in That Box of Cookies, Anyway?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video segment from TV 411, learn how to read nutrition labels on food containers and calculate the calorie content of different serving amounts.
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Article
Genome British Columbia

Genome British Columbia: Nutrigenomics

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the field of nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomics is the study of the interplay between your genetic make-up and what you eat. Are we at more or less risk of disease from their interaction? Can we adjust our eating habits to...
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Handout
Other

University of Delaware: Major Resource Kits

For Students 9th - 10th
Major Resource Kits link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major....
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Living With Diabetes

For Students 6th - 8th
A patient discusses diabetes and how he manages his carbohydrate intake in this video segment from TV 411.