NUTRITION
LINKS
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 Take
a trip to the Nutrition Explorations Kids
Site where you can Feed the Monster and be a breakfast detective.
It's the fun and easy way to teach and learn nutrition. http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/main.asp
Explore the Interactive
Food Pyramid http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/educators/pyramid-interactive.asp
Kids Health http://kidshealth.org/
Find out the answers to any and all questions about your health! From
banishing bad breath to figuring out food labels this is a cool site for
kids of all ages (teachers too!)
Find out Why
Exerercise is Cool!!!
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Be sure to "stop-in" at the Nutrition Cafe to check on your
daily diet and find the missing
nutrient or test your trivia. Flash
version, Non-Flash
Version http://exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/noflash_nutrition.html |
Food
Factory http://library.thinkquest.org/11960/nutrition/
index.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0627
Hey, did you ever think of your body as a factory? This site created
by students for students enters the "food factory" to see
what it takes to fuel this awesome machine! |
Food
Labels http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html
Get the "skinny" on food labels and what it all means from
the official source - the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Just
how many servings of chips are in that bag and how many chips equal
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What IS in that school cafeteria lunch? 
Check out Plastic
Fork Diaries to hear all the juicy gossip about life and lunch at
Stockinda Middle School!
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BAM stands for Body and Mind and is brought to you by the Centers
for Disease Control. Head there for information about physical activity,
food and nutrition, diseases http://www.bam.gov/sub_foodnutrition/index.html |
 Food
and Nutrition Information Center
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/etext/000100.html
The Food and Nutrition Information Center have compiled a long list of fun,
healthy sites for kids to explore! Munch your way through these sites to
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 Through
the teeth, over the tongue, look out stomach...This
site will literally have you traveling through the digestive system!
The
Virtual Body in English
and Spanish
http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
What happens to your food when you eat? How does it provide your body
with the necessary nutrients? Check out the digestion tract from MedTek's
Virtual Body site!
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MORE NOURISHING LINKS FOR KIDS!
 Dole
Five A Day
http://www.dole5aday.com/Kids/K_Index.jsp
Join Pinellopy Pineapple, Patrick Potato and the other fruits and vegetables
to learn about these two fabulous food groups!. There are games to play,
songs to sing, there's even a fruit and vegetable encyclopedia! Say what!?!
A fruit and vegetable encyclopedia? Yep, you'll just have to check it
out for yourself!
Tour
a fresh cut salad factory Tour A Fresh-Cut Salad Factory http://www.dole5aday.com/ReferenceCenter/Encyclopedia/SaladFactory/index.jsp
What's a serving?
http://www.dole5aday.com/Kids/Facts/K_ServingSizes.jsp
Fitness
and Five a Day Fit
Family Contract
Fit
Kid Activity Chart
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FAQ:
About Fruits and vegetables... such as
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? http://www.dole5aday.com/ReferenceCenter/NutritionCenter/FAQ/F_Home.jsp
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 Anatomy
of the pyramid describes how the new food pyramid symbol can be used to
teach MyPyramid's key concepts. PDF
http://mypyramid.gov/downloads/MyPyramid_Anatomy.pdf
MyPyramids
for Kids classroom
materials from USDA
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Get Growing from the Ground up... http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Educators/Garden/index.html
Community
institutions play an important role in influencing children's attitudes
and behaviors about food and nutrition. They also play a critical role
in Team Nutrition, linking schools and communities by participating directly
in local Team Nutrition activities and reinforcing Team Nutrition's healthy
eating and physical activity messages. Already, more than 300 organizations
are Team Nutrition Supporters.
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  Make
copies of the Fit
Kid Activity Chart and help promote 60 minutes of physical activity
a day.http://www.dole5aday.com/Kids/pdf/FK-Activity-Chart.pdf
Why
Teach Nutrition? from Nutrition
Explorations
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/index.asp
Nutrition FAQ
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/educators/faqs.asp
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 Go
behind the glitz to take down the "hype" behind snack foods with:
- Junk Food Jungle
Lesson
Plan http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/advertising_marketing/junk_food_jungle.cfm
- Cereal and Junk
food advertizing http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/advertising_marketing/cereal_and_junk_food.cfm
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 Lesson
Plans:
Fruit
and Veg Unit (K-2) http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/fruitveg.htm
An
Apple a day (2-4)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/apple/appletg.html
How
much Vitamin C can you see? (4-6) http://landlearn.netc.net.au/print/vitaminC.htm
Center for Environmental Education Online Curriculum Library
provides various unit about food
and sustainability. http://www.ceeonline.org/curriculum/search_results.cfm?Category_ID=76
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