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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: You Are What You Eat!

For Students 6th - 8th
Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food. Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body. It...
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Eating Well While Eating Out

For Students 9th - 10th
The older you become the more choices you will have to make about what types of food will make up your diet. This article relates the importance of a well rounded diet. Find out more about how good food has everything to do with how you...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Tonight's Homework Watch Cartoons

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students will make observations about different types of advertisements. Students will watch distinguish the types of advertisements shown during commercial breaks associated with their cartoons and the news.
Website
US Department of Agriculture

Choose My Plate: En Espanol

For Students 9th - 10th
The Spanish-language version of the U.S. government's online nutrition guide Choose My Plate makes it possible for Spanish speakers to access information about eating a nutritious diet and staying physically active.
Website
University of Massachusetts

University of Mass.: Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website from the University of Massachusetts you can read about the different foods that make up the bread group in the food pyramid. Learn about the nutritional value of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta, and read about the...
Interactive
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PBS

Pbs: Fizzy's Lunch Lab: Fizzy's Balance Bots

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Choose healthy foods to balance the robots' diets for this food pyramid game.
Website
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US Department of Agriculture

Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cheese, Peas, and Chocolate Pudding Please

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan will introduce the importance of a good diet. Students will work in groups to create sample menus with healthy food choices. Finally, students will participate in making chocolate pudding, fingerpainting with it, and...
Article
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...
Handout
Other

Seafriends: Soil Dependence

For Students 9th - 10th
This website looks at our dependence on soil and what it produces. It includes text, graphs, charts, illustrations and important statistics. Hosted by the Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Center.
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: A Guide to Eating for Sports

For Students 9th - 10th
Television ads and magazines are littered with new sports drinks and supplements that claim to enhance performance for athletes. Are these claims proven to be true or just cunning marketing schemes? This article delves into the hype and...
Interactive
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: El Enigma De La Nutricion

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an interactive game that facilitates the learning concepts and processes related to human nutrition. Once you finish the game, you will be given an evaluation that will allow you to have access to other games and activities.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Ecology I

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive ecology learning module where students assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems.
Graphic
Curated OER

The Food/energy Pyramid

For Students 9th - 10th
This website looks at our dependence on soil and what it produces. It includes text, graphs, charts, illustrations and important statistics. Hosted by the Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Center.
Handout
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ecosystem Energy Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Covers the meanings of key vocabulary, e.g., types of producers and consumers, trophic levels, food webs, and the energy pyramid.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
This module offers an in depth study of the fundamental components of ecosystems. Activities include mini-lessons with videos and student assignments.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Nutrition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart about nutrition contains a food sort, United Streaming video, and web link to a nutrition game.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Nutrition Apple Trivia

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart addresses the benefits of fruit in nutrition and wellness, emphasizing the benefits of the colors of the rainbow. The flipchart also provides trivia questions on all kinds of varieties of...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Flow of Energy

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When an herbivore eats a plant, the energy in the plant tissues is used by the herbivore. Every time energy is transferred from one organism to another, there is a...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.15 Balanced Eating

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand how can you make the most healthy decisions.
Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Compost

For Students 9th - 10th
Are people wasting yard waste? Why not turn a small corner of a backyard into a nutrient source that not only replenishes the soil but supports the base of the bird food pyramid.
Interactive
Other

Fuel Up to Play 60

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students can play interactive games and learn nutrition facts.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Ecology Quiz

For Students 5th - 8th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over concepts in ecology, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Read 37 slides on energy flow and the nutrient cycle.

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