US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Tips to Help You Eat Vegetables
Make eating vegetables easy for any meal. This website includes tips for purchasing vegetables, making sure your choices are healthy, and getting kids to eat vegetables.
Other
Cspi: Smart Mouth Healthy Eating
CSPI has provided information about maintaining a healthy diet. The site offers healthy food suggestions as well as quizzes to help visitors remember tips. The site also provides visitors with answers to common myths or beliefs about...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
In this lesson, students evaluate their eating habits, focusing on the ways in which one can assess whether or not his or her diet is nutritious. Students will work in small groups to design a menu for a healthy lunch and write a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition: What Your Body Needs
Students explore why some foods are healthy and others unhealthy, they outline the process our body uses to break down foods into forms it can use, and they explain the role nutrition can play in managing diseases, including diabetes.
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.
Other
Kids' World Nutrition Information: Understanding Food Labels
In order to plan a healthy diet, students must know how to read a food label. Food labels show that a food has a little or a lot of certain nutrients. Look on the side of a product to find the Nutrition Facts title, which is fully...
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition: Weight Loss or Diets
Learn about the problems associated with fad diets and other rapid weight loss attempts including inadequate nutrition. Healthier alternatives in the form of long-term habit changes are also presented.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nutrition
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart about nutrition contains a food sort, United Streaming video, and web link to a nutrition game.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 3: Composite Dishes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the Food - a fact of life website. Pupils will be able to identify a healthy meal working out what are the key ingredients for the meals presented.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Healthy Eating Activity 1: Food
[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...
US Department of Agriculture
U.s. Department of Agriculture: Choose My Plate
The U.S. Government's official resource for sound nutritional information points out that eating right can be as simple as increasing some categories of foods while reducing others. Basic information on food groups combined with...
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition Center: Sodium
Learn the importance of sodium in our daily diets as well as the negative effects of excess salt in a person's diet. Contains fact sheets, quizzes and slideshows.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: What's That Food? (Pre Assessment)
This activity explores healthy eating and can be used as a pre-assessment of students' knowledge about food and nutritional needs. Students will observe and describe samples of different food groups then share their observations with the...
Other
British Nutrition Foundation: Food a Fact of Life (11 14): Energy and Nutrients
Students learn about the energy and nutrient requirements of humans in this comprehensive tutorial. They will look at dietary sources of energy, what the human body needs, changes in those needs during life's stages, the energy required...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Using Food Labels
Do you know how to read a food label? Food labels provide important information about the nutritional value of foods. In this lesson plan students will learn about food labels, healthful eating, nutrition facts, and units of measurement...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ratio and Proportional Reasoning: Food Labels
Learn how to use fractions to interpret food labels and make healthy eating choices.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ernie's Dinosaur Day Care
"Help Ernie keep his dinosaur friends healthy and happy while learning about life science by making sure they are eating the right foods, getting exercise, staying clean, and getting enough rest."
National Institutes of Health
Nih Curriculum Supplement Series: The Science of Energy Balance
A great resource for teachers to help explain the balance between calorie intake and physical activity. There are many student activities that reinforce the need for physical activity in a healthy life style. Included are a teacher's...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Healthy Weight
Whether studying health or physical education, this site explains the importance of lifestyle when trying to lose weight and get in shape.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Food Labels Tell the Story!
Read about the building blocks of food and how to read food labels to make better choices about what you eat.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Nutrition
Kid's learn about the science of nutrition. Eating the right nutrients can help make you healthy and strong.
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Deal With Diets
There are numerous diets advertised that claim to be healthy and effective. Which is the right one for you? This article includes dieting tips that are both safe and of benefit to your body. Links to related sites are also included.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Smart Snacking
When you're in a hurry and looking for something to snack on, you probably aren't focusing heavily on what would be the healthiest thing to eat. This article looks at the importance of snacking smartly and strategies one can employ for...
Other
Pacific Science Center: Nutrition Sleuth Game
Can you figure out the missing nutrient in each person's diet? Guess the correct letters of the missing nutrient in this hangman style game!