Healthy Living

Investigate things in the house that can be dangerous.

• Nutrition Information
• Combo Kitchen, Nutrition Mixer and Quintricious- Play these games to determine food in each food group.
• Breakfast Detective
• Online and print activities

175 pdf unit of study for grades 1 and 2. Contains many lessons and worksheets. Curser through the unit to print selected pages. 

The Scrub Club® program is the first of its kind – a fun, interactive and educational Web site that teaches children the proper way to wash their hands. The site consists of a Webisode interactive games, educational music, downloadable activities for kids, educational materials for teachers and program information for parents.

• Downloads for kids
• Downloads for teachers
• Online Games

The Food Detectives Fight BAC!® game gives kids a fun way to learn about foodborne illness. More and more, foodborne illness is making news headlines.

• For teachers
• Resources
• Activities: Soapy solutions, Be a good egg, Cooling counts, Yeast balloon blow up

Outlines how to serve and store food.

From baby teeth to braces, Healthy Teeth is all about what goes on inside your mouth.

A scavenger hunt where the answers can be found at:  http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr4kids/sgrmenu.htm

•  How the Body Works
  http://www.kidshealth.org/misc_pages/mybody_LP.htmlRequires shockwave to link to text-based explanations of body parts.

• What's the right weight for me?
  http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/fat_thin.html
• Taking charge of anger
  http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/anger.html
• Growing Up
  http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/grow/index.html 

Resources for Educators - Students learn how to read nutrition labels, then calculate and track their calcium intake.

• The Great Calcium Challenge

Your source for the most up-to-date nutritional information on your favorite fast food for dieting and weight control; sugar levels for diabetics; carbs (carbohydrate) for low-carb dieters; and health & nutrition class projects for students and teachers.

•  Calcium Calculator
• Downloadable Resources

Follow the directions on this site to determine your calcium intake.

Find the nutrition value of most foods from this database. Body mass, calorie burning, and calorie intake calculators also listed.

Lesson plan where students view cereal commercials (TV and print) and create their own add for their product.

Print of record-keeping sheets to assess what you eat. Then refer to the suggested portions to compare your eating habits.

• My Food A Pedia
• My Pyramid Blast-off Game