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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Powerful Protein
The ability to making informed decisions about nutrition is built on using multiplication, division, and an understanding of grams and portion size.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Testing Trail Mix
Create a snack for testing week while practicing division and multiplication.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: More Meat!
Third graders practice skills of addition, subtraction, word problems and graphing and develop their own theories about why meat consumption is so different across the world.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sugary Surprises
Grams are a useful measurement in determining nutritional content of food.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Background Information
Teach children about nutrition with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.14 Vitamins and Minerals
Find out about some of the vitamins that humans need in their bodies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Do Beliefs About Healthy Food Inform Consumer Choices?
Questions related to attitudes.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Healthy Eating
Provides tips for implementing five of the best strategies to improve nutrition and encourage smart eating habits in toddlers to teens.
McGraw Hill
Oregon State University: How Exercise Builds Bones
Here, at this site from the Oregon State University's Organic Chemistry Online Learning Center, are some discussion topics on diseases and disorders, like osteoporosis that affect bones. Here, you can read the information on how to avoid...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Biotin (Vitamin H)
This site from Flordia State University contains very brief but factual information on biotin (vitamin H). A paragraph long summary and a picture are both included.
University of Massachusetts
Nutrients in Foods: Carbohydrates
This website offers a brief discussion of the function of carbohydrates. It mentions types and definitions of the three types of carbohydrates: starch, sugar and fiber. Links to related information is provided
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Virtual Workshop: Food and Fitness Energy for Life
A slide presentation that gives students an appreciation for what happens when living organisms use food for energy. Actual hands-on yeast lab exercise is part of the presentation.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Is Your Diet Healthy?
A nutrition calculator exploring student's dietary choices by finding their total intake of calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, sugars, sodium, and fiber throughout the day.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: An Apple a Day [Pdf]
Distinguish between fruits and vegetables through a sorting game, learn to appreciate new foods through a tasting activity, create funny food friends with magazine cutouts of healthy foods and dramatize preparing a health meal or snack.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Nutrition
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining nutritional needs. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with...
Other
Reference Guide for Vitamins: Vitamin C
This site has basic information on vitamin C such as recommended daily allowance, deficiency symptoms, benefits, good food sources, cautions, substance interactions, and signs of toxicity.
Other
Zinc an Essential Mineral
This site promotes the benefits on zinc and other not so well-known minerals; calcium is best known. Discusses the importance of zinc, and the types of food zinc is found.
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.
Other
Diet: The Only Real Hope for Arthritis
In addition to discussing the use of a vegan diet to lower the risk of arthritis, this article also talks about diet as a means of preventing other diseases and disorders.
Other
University of Reading: Foodlaw Reading
This site gives details about each piece of information required on an individual food label in the United Kingdom.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Nutrition for Newcomers
"Nutrition for Newcomers" is a cooperative thematic unit to teach vocabulary for food names, different tastes, and nutrition. It includes many activities for different English levels.
Genome British Columbia
Genome British Columbia: Nutrigenomics
Learn about the field of nutrigenomics. Nutrigenomics is the study of the interplay between your genetic make-up and what you eat. Are we at more or less risk of disease from their interaction? Can we adjust our eating habits to...
Other
Top Ten Reasons to Avoid Processed Foods
Before you reach for that Twinkie, here's food for thought: a list of reasons to avoid processed foods.