PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 3: Claim Game
Using a clip from In Defense of Food and photos of food packaging, students uncover five "tricky techniques" companies use to sell food products. Then, students create plans to eat foods instead of phuds to avoid the allure of clever...
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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 2: Chemical Cuisine
By exploring the ingredients in various foods and phuds, students experience first-hand how phuds are engineered to taste irresistible. Students learn and discuss a new Food Rule around eating foods with easily pronounceable ingredients.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur's Cafe
Want to eat some healthy snacks? Try some favorite recipes, in this activity from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
California State University
California State University: Hunger and Eating
A California State University student research paper into the motivation to eat. Gives details to some of the theories on why humans feel hunger. Many references.
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.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Center of the Ocean: How Can Some Foods Be Harmful to Our Health?
Theo is on a cruise ship with his family. They're having a party with loads of food. Not all the food is healthy though. Can you help Theo choose healthy foods?
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Teaching Gude: Healthy Choices
Through this activity, high school students keep track of what they eat everyday and compare their nutrient intake with the minimum requirements for good health.
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Science Quizzes: Food Quiz
A twenty-question quiz covering general knowledge of food.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Food Change [Pdf]
"The Food Change" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a girl who went to the doctor because she was tired. The doctor told her to eat healthy foods and not candy or cookies. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Jean Nidetch
An overweight housewife enlisted her friends to help her stay on a diet -- and hit on a two-part plan that found adherents worldwide.
Other
Nutrition, Health & Heart Disease
This website provides information about nutrition, health, and heart disease. It also discusses specific types of vitamin and mineral supplements you can take to improve or maintain your health.
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.
Other
Moms Team: Minerals Important for Child's Diet
At this website find the answers to the following questions: "What Are Minerals?", "What Types of Minerals Are There?", "What Do Minerals Do?", and "How Can I Ensure My Child Gets Enough Minerals?" Information is provided in simple note...
Other
Web Health Centre: Food at Work
Read about the roles of protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Learn what kinds of foods are "Body builders," "Energy givers," and "Protectors," and tailor your diet so that you are getting the nutrients you need to...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids Environment Kids Health: Healthy Living
Learn five easy steps to be healthy and live a healthy life.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Let's Do Lunch! [Pdf]
The purpose of this project is to teach students the life skills they need when dining in public. The project begins with a discussion of eating out and the students are polled as to how often, if ever, they eat in a restaurant with...
US Food and Drug Administration
U.s. Food and Drug Administration: The Food Label
Read about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, through the use of food label, plans to make Americans informed consumers of food. Here, you can learn about the sections of the food label and read definitions of the terms like...
Harvard University
Harvard School of Public Health: Nutrition Source: Food Pyramids and Plates
Answers to the question what should we eat, based on a pyramid-shaped diagram recommended by the Harvard School of Public Health. With lots of background information on the similarly shaped U.S. Department of Agriculture food guide...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: American Masters: Alice Waters: You Are What You Eat
Examine eating habits and determine how one can eat food that is healthier and tastier. Develop a proposal and multimedia presentation about improving the quality of food in the school.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Food Theme
This site from EnchantedLearning.com provides food-related activities including nursery rhymes, printables, crafts, and quizzes. Includes pages on the food pyramid, food terms in other languages, famous paintings, and a feature on the...
Ministry of Education, Sports & Culture (Samoa) Government
Mesc: Samoa School Net: Nutrients
A 2-part learning module on nutrition. Looks at what kinds of nutrients our bodies needs and what foods to eat to get them. Stresses that the healthiest diet includes mostly plant produce.
Other
Produce for Better Health Foundation: Food Champs: Fruit and Veggie Champs
Advice, recipes, tips, nutrition information, games, and activities to help kids learn why it's so important to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Food and Nutrition Center
This website provides a wide array of nutritional information. Included are articles on food and food groups, the connection between health and food, and healthy eating choices.
US National Archives
Docsteach: Uncle Sam and the American Diet
In this activity, students will closely examine two food nutrition guideline posters from the USDA to determine the government's purpose in creating such guidelines and how they have changed over time. Students will also question how...