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Health & Nutrition - Nutrition

A To Z Teacher Stuff - http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Food___Nutrition/ Lots of links to food related sites and units.

Alberta Milk: http://www.albertamilk.com – Select Nutrition and Education from the top tab for ideas.

Appleton School project: http://www.feingold.org  Alternative approaches to healing using nutrition; look at School Nutrition at the bottom of the left column menu, and then read about the Wisconsin School. Very interesting!

Ban Trans Fats: http://www.bantransfats.com/ Read up on this issue.

Curricular Resources in Nutrition: http://www.cln.org/subjects/nutrition_cur.html Different topics that can be used for your teaching.

Dietitians of Canada: http://www.dietitians.ca – great background information

DLTK’s Nutrition Activities - http://www.dltk-kids.com/nutrition/index.htm Some printables, activities

Dole 5 - A – Day - www.dole5aday.com This is a fun site with lots of information.

Easy Kids Recipes - http://www.easy-kids-recipes.com/ A great data base of recipes

Enchanted Learning: Food Theme - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/food.shtml Excellent printables.

Food and Nutrition - http://www.preschoolbystormie.com/afoodnutrition.html I love these original ideas – lots of fun!

Food and Nutrition Theme Unit - http://abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/science/food_and_nutrition_theme_unit/ Printables

Food Group Book - http://www.kindernetonline.com/booklet.html printables

Food Safety Information: http://www.foodsafetyonline.org A series of links looking at wholesome food and dangers of processing/pesticides.

Food Timeline - http://www.foodtimeline.org/ A great resource when thinking about nutrition throughout history.

Foods - http://www.stormpages.com/cozycottage/foods.html Only a couple of ideas, but they’re great!

Fruit and Vegetable Unit - http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/fruitveg.htm Lots of ideas

Gr. 2 Science - Nutrition - http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsci/gr2ugesc.html Suggested outline for covering a nutrition unit

Harvard School of Public Health: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramids.html An excellent site

Health and Nutrition - http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/nutrition/default.htm Lots of links to a broad spectrum of sites; some dead links, but too valuable to pass up.

Health Canada - Nutrition: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca  Good background information; ideas for kids

Healthy Choices for Kids Online - http://www.healthychoices.org/ A great resource!

Hummingbird Educational Resources – Nutrition - http://www.hummingbirded.com/nutrition_hygiene_dental.html Songs, resources, links

Just Kids Recipes - http://www.justkidsrecipes.com/ At the top of the page are several categories just for kids, but the site includes links to thousands of recipes.

KidsBCool: Fruits and Vegetables - http://www.geocities.com/jubalee1us/thfruit1.html Poems on this page, but also a link to an activities page

Kraft Kids' Recipes - http://kidrecipe.com/ A great data base for foods kids love.

Little Giraffes: Nutrition - http://www.littlegiraffes.com/nutrition.html Cute ideas for integrating, especially for younger students

Neat Solutions for Healthy Children: Nutrition Lesson Plans - http://www.neatsolutions.com/lessons/lesson_plans.htm Specific concepts, with good literature, and variety of activities to integrate.

Carol's Favorite - 2005

Nutrition http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/nutrition.htm.htm A little unit with good ideas

Nutrition - http://www.nutrition.ecsd.net/ A telecollaborative project created by teachers and students about healthy eating; includes lunch ideas that could be a reference for parents.

Carol's Favorite - 2005

Nutrition: A Quest for Perfect Food - http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/worksheets/questsforbetterhealth/worksheet2.html A webquest for gr. 3 and up

Oodles of Foodles - http://www.lindaslearninglinks.com/food.html Fun ideas with food

Parenthood Recipes: http://parenthood.com/recipes.html A searchable database

Pratt’s Food Theme - http://www.fastq.com/~jbpratt/education/theme/food/food.html Long list of links to explore

Responsible Healthy Lifestyles Nutrition Education - http://www.uen.org/utahlink/lp_res/nutri001.html Resources and printables sorted by Grade level.

Step by Step Nutrition Theme - http://stepbystepcc.com/nutrition.html Nice assortment of ideas for integrating.

Zwolle Elementary School: Food Chains - http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/zes/foodchains/default.htm  and also http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/zes/funfoods/default.htm What an incredible assortment of links!

Carol's Favorite - 2005

List Serve Mailing - September 17, 2005

 

 


 

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