Transforming Education
SEL for Educators Toolkit
Four resources make up the SEL toolkit for educators. Intended for those that teach kindergarten to twelfth grade, helpful files include a companion guide, presentation, reference list, and a one-page snapshot that neatly showcases the...
Indiana Department of Education
Social Emotional Toolkit
Looking for some tools to help you incorporate social and emotional learning into your curriculum? Then check out this 79-page kit packed with ideas for developing social-emotional learning competencies. The first section provides...
Other
Health Check Systems: Healthier Fast Food Choices
At this site from HealthCheck Systems you can click on the names of your favorite fast food places to see the "healthier" food choices they provide. Check out the calorie, fat, protein, and carbohydrate content for each food choice.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learn. Genetics: Lifestyle Choices and Risk
Overview of how to make the right lifestyle choices by maintaining a healthy weight through good nutrition and exercise.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Tips for Making Wise Choices in the Dairy Group
Drink milk and eat foods from the milk group every day. Find tips at this website to help you make healthy and safe choices to make sure you get the calcium you need.
Other
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Ways to Help Kids Develop Healthy Habits
A study by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation showed parents have significant potential to influence their children's behavior. Help your children learn to make healthier food choices and engage in regular physical...
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: Passing Healthy Habits on to Your Children
Teach your children how to live healthy when they are young. This helps them avoid making unhealthy choices and developing lifelong bad habits. This article offers examples of ways for parents to positively influence their children's...
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Healthy Habits for Life
This comprehensive resource will give you the tools you need to teach children about eating right and being physically active so that they can establish healthy habits for life. Included are easy-to-use, fun lessons and activities that...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Healthy Kids Project
The Healthy Kids Project uses song, movement, and animation in ten engaging lessons that support healthy choices and attitudes--teaching not only successful actions, but also successful strategies. It's a turnkey kit for teachers to...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Healthy Food Choices
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about healthy food choices by collecting eight healthy food selections from magazine clippings.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Do Beliefs About Healthy Food Inform Consumer Choices?
Questions related to attitudes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Choosing Healthy Foods
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Foods such as whole grain breads, fresh fruits, and fish provide nutrients you need for good health. But different foods give you different types of nutrients. You...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors
This lesson teaches students to identify the differences between healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Included are graphic cards that the students will use to make a classroom chart of healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Eating: Healthy Eating: Collection
Support healthy eating by using these resources in the classroom. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was a nationwide recipe contest for kids ages 8-12 that promotes cooking and healthy eating. Winners attended a "State Dinner" at the White...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Dining Decisions
This interactive game has kids try to create a well-balanced, nutritious lunch. After selecting five foods, kids find out how they did. They learn what nutrients each healthy food choice provided and what was wrong with the poor food...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Eating Well While Eating Out
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...
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...
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Do It Now Foundation: Peer Pressure and Choices: How to Think for Yourself
Read about how peer pressure can negatively influence your decisions, particularly decisions about drug abuse. Learn the importance of thinking for yourself and of making healthy choices when it comes to drugs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's on Your Plate?
In today's fast food world, it can be hard to make healthy eating choices. In this lesson, learners will learn how they can incorporate healthy eating habits in their daily routines. They will use menus from local restaurant chains and...
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Health: Shape Your Family's Habits
With family help, kids can learn to develop healthy eating and physical activity habits that last throughout their lives. This article looks at studies that prove the family's influence on kid's health is crucial, and tips to help kids...
US Department of Agriculture
U.s. Department of Agriculture: Choose My Plate
The U.S. Government's official resource for sound nutritional information points out that eating right can be as simple as increasing some categories of foods while reducing others. Basic information on food groups combined with...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Cayman Islands: Human Body: Eating Healthy
Help Cole make good choices for healthy foods before he can play at the beach.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
In this lesson, students evaluate their eating habits, focusing on the ways in which one can assess whether or not his or her diet is nutritious. Students will work in small groups to design a menu for a healthy lunch and write 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.