PBS
Pbs Teachers: Fat: Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss
Evaluate current guidelines for a healthy diet, compare them to one's own eating habits and learn safe behaviors for maintaining a healthy weight. Analyze the food pyramid, fast-food and health-food nutrition and the causes of obesity.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Learning About Nutrition
In this whiteboard activity by SMART, children become familiar with the Food Pyramid. They categorize foods by brainstorming and using pictures. Children learn about various factors that affect individual food choices, and they apply...
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Bird's Eye View of the Desert Food Chain
Describes how a food chain works in a desert and how the Mojave desert food chain works in particular.
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.
Other
Nutrition.gov
This is a comprehensive resource for information pertaining to health, nutrition and well being. Explore this site to learn more about food safety, food facts, health management and more.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Ecological Pyramids
A colorful tutorial about ecological pyramids. Read the information, and then check your understanding with some questions and answers about the topic.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Three Meals for Gregory
Lesson begins with a review of the food guide pyramid. The book Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat (not provided through instructional activity) is read and discussed in light of healthy eating. In groups, students create...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Green Light Eating
During this healthy foods instructional activity, students will sort foods into "healthy" and "unhealthy" categories.Students with then keep a food journal and reflect about their food choices.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Eating Well While Eating Out
The older you become the more choices you will have to make about what types of food will make up your diet. This article relates the importance of a well rounded diet. Find out more about how good food has everything to do with how you...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: You Are What You Eat!
Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food. Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body. It...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Counting on Good Health
This multi-day lesson engages students in exploring healthy habits and components of the food pyramid. Students will describe their favorite foods that will be part of a class tasting party at the end of the days.
abcteach
Abcteach: Science: Health and Nutrition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary to middle school students can learn from the resources here about food and nutrition. In particular is a lesson plan and worksheet on the food pyramid guidelines issued by the USDA in 2005.
PBS
Pbs: Fizzy's Lunch Lab: Fizzy's Balance Bots
Choose healthy foods to balance the robots' diets for this food pyramid game.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Why Walk?
This lesson plan engages students in reading activities related to James Marshall's book, Yummers. Students will analyze the diet of the main character and determine what made the character sick.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Vegetarian Choices in the Protein Food Group
Here a few tips to help vegetarians get enough protein by eating beans, nuts, and soy products from the meat group. Includes a link to a page on how vegetarians can eat from the food pyramid and get the nutrients they need to stay healthy.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cheese, Peas, and Chocolate Pudding Please
This lesson will introduce the importance of a good diet. Students will work in groups to create sample menus with healthy food choices. Finally, students will participate in making chocolate pudding, fingerpainting with it, and eating it.
Read Works
Read Works: What Should You Eat?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the food groups that make up a healthy diet. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Marietta College: Ecosystems
Complete illustrated discussion of energy flow within ecosystems, including discussions of trophic levels, ecological pyramids, food chains and webs, biological magnification, and cycles.
PBS
Pbs: Now With Bill Moyers: Soft Drink Sales at School
Explore the pros and cons of soft drink sales in schools. Examine the amount of sugar in soft drinks, research links to obesity and debate whether or not schools should partner with soft drink companies.
University of Massachusetts
University of Mass.: Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
At this website from the University of Massachusetts you can read about the different foods that make up the bread group in the food pyramid. Learn about the nutritional value of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta, and read about the...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems
Understand how organisms acquire energy and how that energy is passed from one organism to another through food webs and their constituent food chains.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Trophic Levels
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand what trophic levels are and identify producers and consumers in a food web.
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.