PBS
Pbs: Scientific American: Never Say Die: Eat Less Live Longer
This site from the PBS production "Never Say Die" provides a section on how to eat less and live longer. The first part of this site discusses food and nutrition. The second part is an activity in which you can make a calorimeter. The...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Food as Fuel
Students find and compare the amount of calories found experimentally with the values found on the food packages.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Calorie?
Emma Bryce explains how a few different factors should go into determining the recommended amount of calories for each person. [4:12]
Climate Literacy
Clean: How Much Energy Is on My Plate?
This activity leads students through a sequence of learning steps that highlight the embedded energy that is necessary to produce various types of food. Students start by thinking through the components of a basic meal and are later...
Indiana University
Area 10 Math and Technology Project: Nutrition Labels
Lesson Plan involving all aspects of reading a nutrition label. Emphasizes math skills. Includes links to a teacher outline, student copies and reference materials.
Other
The Grain Chain: Measuring Energy
Read about how we measure energy from food and what a calorie is.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Fat: Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss
Evaluate current guidelines for a healthy diet, compare them to one's own eating habits and learn safe behaviors for maintaining a healthy weight. Analyze the food pyramid, fast-food and health-food nutrition and the causes of obesity.
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda: How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label
The FDA provides information relating to the nutrition facts panel overview, the serving size, calories, the nutrients, understanding the footnote, how the daily values relate to the percent daily values, the percent daily value, quick...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Energy Density & Weight Loss:feel Full on Fewer Calories
This article is medium-sized in length and provides great information on the subject. Links are provided for additional information as well.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
Curated OER
Kids Health: How Can I Lose Weight Safely
Finding the right weight for yourself can often be difficult because most people aspire to loose or gain a few pounds. Find out how you can safely reach a comfortable weight based on your unique body composition. Links to similar sites...
Read Works
Read Works: Hot Topics
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the human body gets energy from food. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Calorimetry
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the design and function of a calorimeter along with calorimetry sample problems.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Burning Calories
Second graders will investigate calorie usage in this activity. Students will make predictions, wear a pedometer, walk and record steps, and understand how high calorie foods require more calorie-burning effort.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Food and Calories Lesson Plan
This lesson plan from Access Excellence offers sample charts and an answer key which helps students guess the caloric content of a variety of foods and then check their answers.
Other
South Coast Today: Fast Food, Faster Calories
A personal account of eating at fast food restaurants. Learn how you can still eat at fast food restaurants without consuming all the calories you need in one meal.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3: Calories in a Sports Drink
The goal of the task is to stimulate a conversation about rounding and about how to record numbers with an appropriate level of accuracy, tying in directly to the standard N-Q.3. Aligns with N-Q.A.3.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for Me?
It is easy to compare yourself with the celebrities and models you see every day on TV and in magazines. These pictures sometimes help shape our body image and we begin to think that we should look like these people. The truth is that...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Calorimetry
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using diagrams and practice problems, students learn how the units of calories are used to measure the energy of the heat transfer. They also discover how...
CNN
Cnn: Quick Facts on Calories
How many calories should you eat a day? Just what is a calorie? What foods should I avoid? Click here and find the answers to these questions and more.
Chem Tutor
Chemtutor: Walking Up the Phase Change Graph
Good exercise graphing a phase change graph from solid to liquid to graph. Includes temperatures and all energy changes for water through this process.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Food and Nutrition
Learn about the five food groups that are important for a healthy diet.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: About All You Can Eat: Truth or Consequences
Demonstrate how calories are measured by building a calorimeter to measure the transfer of heat energy during a chemical or physical change. Test and record data on the calories in a peanut.