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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.

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 >	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 >
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 >	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 >
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 >	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 >
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 >	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 >
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 >	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 >
Unit Plans Meet Your Vegetables Grades: PreK–K This integrated curriculum unit helps students better understand the importance of good nutrition. Read more >	Unit Plans, Book Resources Nutrition and Me Grades: PreK–K An activity that introduces students to the food pyramid, food groups, and the relationship between nutrition and a healthy body Read more >