This resource is a Health student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically the Gale databases of InfoTrac Student Edition and Student Resources in Context - for conducting research about eating disorders.
Linda Black Elk is passionate about plants. Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and professor of ethnobotany and science education at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota and recently she traveled to the Cansayapi Oyate (the Lower Sioux Indian Community) to share her knowledge of medicinal plants with students there.
Two lesson plans for grades 9-12 are included as gallery assets and in the Support Materials.
The students will understand how a healthy diet and regular exercise can help them to be healthy and happy, both physically and mentally.
The fundamental filtering units in the kidneys are nephrons. Each kidney contains over one million nephrons. Most of the fluid is returned or reabsorbed by the bloodstream along with other substances needed by the body.
The small intestine is a hollow tube that is only about 2.5 centimeters in diameter, but it stretches about 7 meters in length. The chemical digestion of carbohydrates and proteins is completed in the small intestine.
One of the most important ways the body excretes wastes is via specialized structures in the urinary system.
Urine passes out the kidneys to the bladder through small tubes called ureters. From time to time urine is emptied from the bladder through the urethra.
Watch the linked video and ask your child(ren) to hold up a card to show how they are feeling when they hear a specific piece of music.
In this lesson students will analyze their favorite fast food places for calories, fats, and other nutrients to decide whether or not fast food restaurants can be part of a healthy diet.
Health and nutrition are growing concerns for Utah communities. Rising health care costs and illness can decrease the effectiveness of a community in many ways. On the other hand, decisions that increase health and fitness benefit everyone. This lesson encourages students to learn about and adopt healthy lifestyles.
This is a lesson plan for teaching feelings happy, sad, scared, mad to young children.
Students will be able to identify a maximum of ten feelings. Show a cause for that feeling. Show how that feeling felt by them can have an effect on those around them.
Students will be able to identify a maximum of ten feelings. Show a cause for that feeling. Show how that feeling felt by them can have an effect on those around them.
Per Utah Code 53G-10-402 parental consent is required prior to instruction in this content.
Fetal Development: Stages of Growth: Within 24 hours after fertilization, the egg that will become your baby rapidly divides into many cells. By the eighth week of pregnancy, the embryo develops into a fetus. There are about 40 weeks to a typical pregnancy. These weeks are divided into three trimesters.This site will breakdown what happens month week.
First aid is the provision of immediate care to a victim with an injury of illness, usually effected by a lay person, and performed within a limited skill range. First aid is normally performed until the injury or illness is satisfactorily dealt with (such as in the case of small cuts, minor bruises, and blisters) or until the next level of care, such as an ambulance or doctor, arrives. This book is a Canadian version of the original at Wikibooks. All references to protocols which do not comply with resuscitation standards in Canada have been removed.
This lesson is for Pre-K as part of a Healthy Foods and Food Groups Unit. Students will take photos of foods they eat and then sort photos into 5 food groups.
Students graph their estimations of caloric intake and caloric expenditures
Prior to starting the project students will take a home safety survey. Students will complete a powerpoint presentation on a foodborne illness and present it to the class. As an additional activity we will do an experiment on food safety
This lesson helps the students to understand how foods affect their body. We will be focusing on the benefits of healthy food and why it is important to eat such foods. Each student will be given the opportunity to bring in a healthy food to share with the class and talk about how that food affects certain parts of the body.
Food is mechanically broken down in the stomach as muscular contractions squeeze and churn it. Enzymes and acids are also secreted to break down food, forming a soup-like mixture known as chyme.