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Handout
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Whole Grains Council: Los Granos Enteros Y Una Dieta Balanceada Y Saludable

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content. Gives us a look in Spanish at the basic elements of a balanced diet with whole grains as a basis.
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Handout
American Heart Association

American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition: Guidelines for Children

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the dietary recommendations for babies, children and teens. Topics include the benefits of breastfeeding, calorie recommendations by age, and suggestions for a balanced diet.
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Article
Other

Livestrong: The Best Foods to Eat for Promoting Healthy Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this advice of what foods to consume to be certain that your body cells are getting the nutrients they need to thrive.
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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Dining Decisions

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive game has kids try to create a well-balanced, nutritious lunch. After selecting five foods, kids find out how they did. They learn what nutrients each healthy food choice provided and what was wrong with the poor food...
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US Department of Agriculture

Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
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Website
University of California

Ucla: Student Nutrition and Body Image Awareness Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about food, nutrition, fitness, and how to balance health and college activities. Topics included are weight, fitness, diet, nutrition, and body image. The resource consists of information on workshops, classes,...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: Cayman Islands: Human Body: Eating Healthy

For Students K - 1st
Help Cole make good choices for healthy foods before he can play at the beach.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Christmas Island: What Are the Different Nutrients in Foods?

For Students 2nd - 4th
Curious Cindy is the only detective on Christmas Island. She is hired to go undercover and check the foods restaurants serve. Find out about nutrition with her.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Delayed Puberty

For Students 6th - 8th
The changes that an adolescent goes through can be intimidating or unexpected. What can be worse though is watching peers change as your body still appears like a child. This article confronts this feeling and provides support for those...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Junk Food Battles

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of eating nutritious foods. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the engineering design process, develop and market a healthy fast food children's meal.
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Whiteboard
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Teeth and Eating

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses food groups, balanced diets, healthy teeth choices, types of teeth humans have, tooth decay and energy.
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Vitamins and Their Deficiencies

For Students 4th - 6th
Features a chart of vitamins and their sources and discusses why vitamins are important for our health.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Ready, Set, Breakfast!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this site to learn why breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. This article provides information on how breakfast jumpstarts your body and includes alternatives to eating cereal in the morning.
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Whiteboard
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Food Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Fruit Juices

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student will be able to identify different kinds of foods and classify them accordingly.
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Article
Other

Story md.com: Wellness and Habits

For Students 9th - 10th
How can you stop yourself from making unhealthy decisions or acquiring bad habits? In a world of increased portions sizes and highly processed convenience foods, it isn't as simple as knowing what is and isn't good for you.

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