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Health and Nutrition: Everything You Need

Teach students about the importance of nutrition, fitness, and other healthy habits using these thematic units and resources.

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Eat Healthy, Play Healthy

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative focuses on "food deserts", communities that don't have adequate grocery stores

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Discovering Healthy Eating

Grades: Early Childhood, PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Teach students about the importance and benefits of a balanced nutritious diet using these thematic units and resources.

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Health and Nutrition Books

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

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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...

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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...

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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?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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Unit Plans

Meet Your Vegetables

Grades: PreK–K

This integrated curriculum unit helps students better understand the importance of good nutrition.

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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.

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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.

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Writing Activities, Lesson Plans

In My Garden Sing Along

Grades: PreK–K

Sing a song about vegetables to learn what grows in a garden.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Discussion Guides

Health Care Questions: Be Informed, Speak Up, Act Lesson Plan (Grades 6–8)

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...

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Articles, Lesson Plans

Health Care Questions: Be Informed, Speak Up, Act Lesson Plan (Grades 9–12)

Grades: 9–12

Class discussion questions about how Americans can access quality health care. Examines whether the primary responsibility for individual health...

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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.

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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.

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