The American Heart Association's downloadable Fruit and Veggie Toolkit for Kids is a collection of resources that will help you empower students to develop healthy habits early in life that will bring lifelong benefits.

Includes sections on the Endocrine System, the Cardiovascular System, the Lymphatic and Immune System, the Respiratory System, the Digestive System, Nutrition, the Urinary System, the Reproductive System, and Development and Inheritance.

Local dairy farm families believe in giving back to their communities. Dairy West programs empower students and educators to work together to build healthier schools, and create healthy, high-achieving students

Kindergarten teachers can meet education standards for Math, Science, English Language Arts, and Health using the 6 ready-to-go and interactive lessons.

This is a lesson for preschool students. In this lesson, students will learn about the importance of eating healthy and how to make good food choices. They will learn about the five food groups and be able to categorize food into the correct food groups. This lesson follows the following core standards: Strand 4: Nutritions- Students will understand why food choices are important, Standard HE 4.1 Identify a variety of healthy foods, Standard HE 4.2-Identify healthy food and begin to categorize into food groups, Standard 4.3  Try new foods from a variety of food groups.Image Citation: food healthy flyer landscape by yellow bananas from Canva created by Suzanne McMillan

This is a second grade lesson plan about nutrition and building blanaced meals. In this lesson, students will review the five food groups and create a video presentation showing a balanced meal they created with their family. This lesson plan was created by Sydney Blake. It aligns with 2nd Grade Standard 5 Nutrition - Standard 2.N.1: Identify food and beverage choices that contribute to good health. https://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=7020

In this lesson plan, students will learn about the different food groups, nutrition, and healthy eating habits through interactive activities and a game of "Food Basket."

In this lesson plan, students will learn about proper nutrition and complete an activity worksheet tracking the nutrition on different foods.

Find strategies and activities that you can use in the classroom that tie directly to the Early learning Preschool core standards.

Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body.  Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed.  Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy.

Many foods tie into traditions within the months of November and December. Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body.  Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed.  Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy.  

The Digestion and Nutrition Student Edition book is one of ten volumes making up the Human Biology curriculum, an interdisciplinary and inquiry-based approach to the study of life science.

Printables for teachers on healthy foods, healthy habits, and activities by Nourish Interactives.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention physical activity guidelines for children 6-17 years old.

Read the Label Youth Outreach materials challenge kids (ages 9 to 13) to look for and use the Nutrition Facts label on food and beverage packages. The materials include fun, easy tips and targeted education to help make label reading a key component through which today’s young people are equipped to achieve a healthy diet. With engaging content, plus hands-on parent information and community outreach, kids and families across the United States can use the label to compare foods today and every day!

The activity is designed for 7-8 grade students in a health education class.  The standard is: Standard HI.N.3:Explore advertising claims and potential health consequences for dietary supplements, popular fad diets, and weight-loss products.1.  Short teacher led discussion of supplement use and potential for side effects from over supplementation.2.  Supplements chosen for student research are based on nutrients for which there is a possibility of excess side effects.3.  Students use the UOSL, eMedia, and NIH resources to complete one of the 7 nutrients.4.  Student groups make presenations to all students about the nutrient they chose.5.  All students are expected to complete the "Nutrient Fact Sheet"6.  Group self assesses their presentation as part of assessment7.  Individuals self assess their "Nutrient Fact Sheet" as part of their assessment Vitamin Supplement Image/Thumbnail was created by Sue Leeflang using Corel Draw and exported as a JPEG file.

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