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Unit Plan
University of Guelph

Introduction to Invertebrate Biodiversity: Fungi

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out more about fungi when you check out this comprehensive site. This resource provides an introduction and information on morphology, reproduction and the importance of fungi. Don't miss out on this fascinating source.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Kids and Exercise

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Information about kids and exercise. Includes an age-appropriate guide to the type and the amount of daily exercise children should be getting.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Kids and Exercise

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Information about kids and exercise. Includes an age-appropriate guide to the type and the amount of daily exercise children should be getting.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Body Shop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the types of foods needed to fuel the body for sports and exercise. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Court Rejects New York City's Portion Cap for Sugary Drinks

For Students 7th - 8th
In 2014, Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, designed a proposal known as "the soda ban" that would put limits on the size of sugary drinks that people could buy. The proposal was favored among health advocates, including...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Gary Wolf: The Quantified Self

For Students 9th - 10th
Gary Wolf discusses how we use modern technology, more specifically gadgets and apps, to monitor our health and body. [5:11]
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Kitchen Tour With Mixie

For Students Pre-K - K
Take a tour of a kitchen! Click on appliances, cooking items, and other things usually found in kitchens. Mixie will explain the use of each of the items.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: About All You Can Eat: Superfoods

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the advent of corn as a nutritional staple in the human diet. Observe popping corn and measure differences in the mass of the corn before and after heating, and make pH indicators using fruit, flowers or vegetables.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Dick Gregory

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Dick Gregory, an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, and spokesman for health issues, who became nationally recognized in the 1960s for a biting brand of comedy that attacked...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Genetically Modified Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists inserted daffodil genes and other genetic material into ordinary rice to make this golden rice. The result is a strain of rice that provides vitamin A, a nutrient missing from the diets of many people who depend on rice as a...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 1: Food

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the "Food - a fact of life" website. Pupils will be able to discuss what foods they eat and when, identify different types of meals and discuss which are their...
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Eating Healthy for Sports Athletes

For Students 1st - 9th
Learn how eating healthy can make you a stronger athlete and better at sports.
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Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: The Spice of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Spice up your life! Adding spice to your meals has been linked to many beneficial health results. Explore what the Why Files have discovered.
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Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Foul Food

For Students 9th - 10th
The Why Files have provided a site discussing topics pertaining to food cleanliness. Topics include: dining in, dining out, sanitary conditions, and origins of food.
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Article
National Institutes of Health

Nih: Aim for a Health Weight

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief but informative site discusses the role of body mass index and waist circumference in determining your risk of disease and death.
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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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Website
University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Feeds for Light Horses

For Students 9th - 10th
What type of feed do horses need to maintain their health? Are oats and timothy hay necessary? These questions are answered and this comprehensive site discusses pasture grasses, silage, legume hays, and more.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Why Don't We Have a Tail ?

For Students 9th - 10th
The Peter Gurney Guinea Pig Health Guide offers an easy to read page on guinea pig diet and nutrition information.
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Graphic
Other

Digital Frog International: Frog Mouth

For Students 9th - 10th
A very impressive photograph of the inside of a frog's mouth. No text.

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