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Kids Health: Staying Healthy
Find yummy recipes for food to make yourself! There are also articles about the reasons for vitamins and minerals, how to eat when you're playing sports, and a number of other important topics.
About Kids Health
About Kids Health: Involving Kids in Meal Time Tasks
Involving children of all ages in household activities will help them learn life skills. Involving them in the kitchen creates family bonds and teaches healthy habits. Find out how engaging your child in mealtime tasks can help them...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Take a Trip Food Groups Jr
Take a Trip: Food Groups Jr is a learning activity that challenges children to carefully move the hungry ant through the picnic table maze to the food at the end of the table. Children will be introduced to the different food groups...
California State University
Fantasy Food Groups Fun Land
Come slide down chocolate mudslides and bounce on marshmallows in this crazy imaginary art lesson. Students work to create a fantasy land made entirely of different foods. Students are encouraged to use knowledge of the six food groups...
Other
Eat Your Way to Five a Day!
This resource presents guidelines to follow to help you make healthy food choices and get the nutrients from fruits and vegetables that your body needs.
British Council
British Council: Learn English: Healthy Eating
Learn how to eat a healthy diet by taking this online quiz about food and food groups.
Other
Footprints Science: Food Groups
This animation displays examples of different food groups for the students to correctly label.
Other
Pacific Science Center: Nutrition Sleuth Game
Can you figure out the missing nutrient in each person's diet? Guess the correct letters of the missing nutrient in this hangman style game!
Other
National Dairy Council: Nutrition Explorations Educator's Guide
This site gives a wealth of resources for teaching about nutrition in an elementary school classroom. It has worksheets, lesson plans, online activities, and more.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: My Pyramid Food Pyramid: Am I Eating Right?
[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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Teeth and Eating
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses food groups, balanced diets, healthy teeth choices, types of teeth humans have, tooth decay and energy.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 3: Composite Dishes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the Food - a fact of life website. Pupils will be able to identify a healthy meal working out what are the key ingredients for the meals presented.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 4: Energy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the 'Food - a fact of life' website. Pupils will be able to understand why their bodies need energy, how much energy is in certain food types and who needs more...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Exercise
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gets the students up and moving as well as thinking about the importance of exercise and the impact it has on the human body.
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Class Flow: Food Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a basic lesson introducing food groups along with healthy choices having to due with nutrition.
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Class Flow: Food Pyramid
[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart helps students learn about the food pyramid introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1990s. [Set aside in 2005 by MyPyramid, which itself was set aside in 2011 by MyPlate.]
SMART Technologies
Smart: Learning About Nutrition
In this whiteboard activity by SMART, children become familiar with the Food Pyramid. They categorize foods by brainstorming and using pictures. Children learn about various factors that affect individual food choices, and they apply...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: The Food Pyramid
What is a food pyramid? Learn about the five major food groups and what constitutes a serving.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: History of Chocolate
Explore the history of chocolate and other interesting facts.