Physical inactivity has consistently been shown to be one of the most powerful, modifiable risk factors for all causes of death and disease, alongside smoking and obesity.
This interactive body map brings together scientific evidence on the links between lack of physical activity and disease.
This is a learning module that will challenge students to develop juggling skills while learning about MyPlate Nutrition! Included are activity logs and printable documents for goal setting.
This activity is designed to show students how difficult it can be to make healthy food choices and to help them understand the nutritional information available for a variety of foods. This activity can be done at the start of a nutrition unit. It was developed after the author realized that many students had no idea how to make good food choices or how to interpret nutritional information. Many students are keen to adopt or maintain a healthy active lifestyle, yet neglect to ensure that they are eating from all the food groups and that they are consuming nutritious food that is beneficial to them.
After this interactive lesson, your students will really understand the concept of calories--and it's fun too! Students will analyze a teenage boy named Joe's unhealthy eating (Every day he is having a Snickers candy bar, pizza, breadsticks, etc.) and then they will help Joe cut food to drop 500 calories a day, thus losing a pound a week.
Learn about Healthy Highway, a program to help people make healthy choices about nutrition. It uses simple graphics and concepts to explain options, such as traffic signs to explain how to make good nutrition choices. The program has been used by schools and Special Olympics.
This nutrition-based curriculum introduces students to the fundamentals of healthy food choices. With engaging hands-on activities, students will become more aware of calories, serving size, and the nutrients they should get “more of” and “less of.” Designed for use by high school teachers, the emphasis is on an inquiry approach that is customizable to science, health, and/or family and consumer science classes, aligning with current education standards in these curriculum areas.
The MyPlate Plan shows your food group targets – what and how much to eat within your calorie allowance. Your food plan is personalized, based on your age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity level. The MyPlate Plan is also available in Spanish.
This is an interactive webpage allowing students to enter their information with the webpage auto-calculating. Students are then given plans related to the caloric needs of students.
This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the explanation and use of calories.
We hear about calories all the time: How many calories are in this cookie? How many are burned by doing 100 jumping jacks, or long-distance running, or fidgeting? But what is a calorie, really? And how many of them do we actually need? Emma Bryce explains how a few different factors should go into determining the recommended amount for each person.
The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.
This alignment results from the Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
