Health and Nutrition: Everything You Need

Project Healthy Schools Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Project Healthy Schools is a program aimed at helping 6th graders in Ann Arbor, Michigan, find better food options, exercise ideas, and... Read more >	Fuel Up for Your Health! Grades: 3–5, 6–8 To encourage kids to become more active, Fuel Up to Play 60 was co-created by the NFL, the National Dairy Council, and the U.S. Department of... Read more >
Fitness Should be Fun Grades: 3–5, 6–8 After playing three consecutive (and very competitive) tennis matches, 12-year-old Lauren Fishbein was not even tired. So how does she do it? Read more >	Fencing Fitness Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Staying fit requires regular physical exercise. You can work out or play a sport, like football, basketball, baseball, or hockey. But that's not... Read more >
Healthy Kids Day at the White House Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Simplicity, convenience, and flavor are the three key ingredients to eating healthy, said First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House Healthy Kids... Read more >	Michelle Obama Tackles Kids' Health Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Kid Reporters cover First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" events as she takes her fight against childhood obesity from the White House kitchen... Read more >
Celebrity Health Habits Grades: 3–5, 6–8 For TV and movie stars, staying healthy is part of their job. So, maybe the rest of us can learn something from them about how to improve our own... Read more >	Book Resources, Lesson Plans Healthy Heart Grades: 1–2, 3–5 These class activities introduce students to the power of their heart and provide an opportunity to talk about maintaining good health. Read more >
Eat Fresh Food! Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Join Kid Reporter Grace McManus in the Brooklyn, New York, kitchen of cookbook authors Rozanne Gold and daughter Shayna DePersia, 14. Read more >	Unit Plans Meet Your Vegetables Grades: PreK–K This integrated curriculum unit helps students better understand the importance of good nutrition. Read more >
Writing Activities, Lesson Plans Vegetable Faces: A Guiseppe Archimboldo Portrait Study Grades: PreK–K Create portraits from vegetables in the same manner as the famous Italian master, while learning how to identify different foods. Read more >	Activities and Games, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Vegetable Soup: A Reverse Recipe Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Make a recipe with your entire class to help your students identify a variety of vegetables. Read more >
Writing Activities, Lesson Plans In My Garden Sing Along Grades: PreK–K Sing a song about vegetables to learn what grows in a garden. Read more >	Cool Tips on Kewlbites.com Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Actor Reed Alexander of iCarly turned his personal quest for a healthy lifestyle into a website for kids called Kewlbites.com. Read more >
Have a Snack with NAC Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Fifth graders are helping their friends become healthier by joining a program called NAC. NAC stands for Nutrition Advisory Council. Made up of... Read more >	President's Council on Fitness, Sports, Nutrition Grades: 3–5, 6–8 First Lady Michelle Obama visited Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C., to help relaunch the President's Council on Fitness, Sports... Read more >
Discussion Guides Health Care Questions: Be Informed, Speak Up, Act Lesson Plan (Grades 68) Grades: 6–8 Presents arguments and poses questions about how to make the highest quality healthcare available to all U.S. citizens. Use these questions for... Read more >	Articles, Lesson Plans Health Care Questions: Be Informed, Speak Up, Act Lesson Plan (Grades 912) Grades: 9–12 Class discussion questions about how Americans can access quality health care. Examines whether the primary responsibility for individual health... Read more >
Activities and Games, Articles Healthy Heart Week Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Reinvent Valentine's Day into a wholesome and nutritious week of healthy learning. Read more >	Focus On Fitness: Q & A With Carrie Myers Smith Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Carrie M Smith explains how to bring kids'fitness routines indoors during the winter. Includes exercise ideas and nutrition tips. Read more >