Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Calorie Calculator
Use this interactive calorie calculator to determine what your optimal daily caloric intake is according to your activity level and body type.
US Department of Agriculture
Usda: Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Preschoolers
Games, posters, and coloring pages help explain the food pyramid and the importance of good nutrition to kids.
Harvard University
Harvard School of Public Health: The Nutrition Source: What Should I Eat?
A lot of confusing and erroneous information exists regarding proper nutrition. Get the correct facts and improve your healthy eating knowledge here.
Other
Do Something: 11 Facts About Organic Food
Learn about the differences between conventionally grown food and organic for both people and the environment. Includes important statistics about nutrition and pesticides.
Other
Frozen Ropes: Baseball and Softball Training
This site contains information on a baseball/softball training camp. Read up on the style of the training and how it has been successful in the past.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Children's Activities: Healthy Eating
You can create opportunities for learning about healthy food in many ways besides cooking and eating: you can use games, crafts, songs and dance. This site provides coloring sheets, flashcards, curriculum materials, nutritional games,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Snacks vs. Junk Food
Help children define and discover the differences between healthy foods and junk foods, in this activity from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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...
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.
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda: Cool Tips for Kids
Teach your students to use the following easy ways to Read the Label at home, in the cafeteria, at the store, and at restaurants.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nutrition Facts Labels
This lesson focuses on how to read nutrition and ingredient labels. A quiz is provided at the end of the slideshow.
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:arthur Family Health
Help children understand various health topics with these resources from ARTHUR FAMILY HEALTH. Dealing with health issues can be challenging and sometimes scary. Arthur and his friends are here to help with games, videos, and resources...
PBS
Pbs: In Defense of Food Curriculum
PBS: In Defense of Food Curriculum. It is designed to help adolescents develop something valuable:practical tools for healthier eating. It helps students learn why it is important to eat healthfully, investigate how food companies...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 8: Color Your World
In this lesson, young scholars play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and brainstorm...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 7: Rooting for Plants
This is the first instructional activity in the "Mostly Plants" section. Students are introduced to the amazing variety of plant-based foods and relate that to MyPlate, our national dietary guidance. Watching a clip from In Defense of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 6: Dia Beat It!
In this lesson students investigate the changing prevalence rates of type 2 diabetes and learn how this disease develops.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 5: Supersized
For this lesson, students examine portion sizes and how our eyes, as well as food companies, may deceive us in estimating a healthy amount to eat. Through popcorn experiments, along with a clip from In Defense of Food, students learn how...
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...
PBS
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: Lesson 1: Where Are the Soda Trees?
Using film clips from In Defense of Food and a team activity, students explore healthy eating habits. Students get excited about becoming food defenders and begin learning how to differentiate between food (whole and minimally processed)...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curriculum Family Sheets (Espanol)
This is a compilation of all of the take home Family Sheets from Lessons 1-10 in Spanish. These help students bring messages learned in the In Defense of Food Curriculum back to their Spanish speaking families.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curriculum Introduction: In Defense of Food
This section includes an overview of the curriculum, ideas for how to get started, and snapshots of the curriculum's key features. The "How to use this curriculum" section helps educators see how lessons are structured to be clear and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 10: Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
In this final lesson a clip from In Defense of Food shows students the vibrant food movement that is springing up across the country. In a final celebration, students share their final projects with the class and think about how they can...