Help your students succeed by underscoring the need for eating nutritious food so as to stay healthy. From kindergarten to high school, students need information and time for it to develop good habits since they discover how to make an increasing number of methods of themselves. Through providing engaging resources and opportunities for open discussion, you can help your students build a healthy attitude about balanced diet.


VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP: RAD LANDS IN SCHOOL

Discovery Education and Chipotle are cooking up an online Field Trip. On November 8, 2017, discover more about the enormously popular restaurant that serves Food with Integrity. And, to assist you and your students’ when you know about healthier living and eating, we’ve selected a menu of resources that you can select to develop your learning burrito reported by your students’ tastes and needs.


FEATURED RESOURCE

Nutrition: Content Collection
Discovery Education Streaming
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Assorted Resources

Discover the science of nutrition. Studying human nutrition means learning precisely what the important required for life and health are, where we can get them, and in what quantity to use them.


LEARN

The study of nutrition is cross-disciplinary! Start using thise resources to attain science, math, and language arts skills that happen to be important to fully understand nutrition and health.
 
Discovery Science Alliance: Nutrition Graphs
(Canadian Version)
Discovery Education Streaming, Science Techbook
Grades K-2, 3-5, Full Video

Students with the Science Alliance Academy have an open discussion concerning the type of information presented from a nutrition graph.
 
Head Rush: Cardboard versus Cereal: Nutrition
(Canadian Version)
Discovery Education Streaming, Science Techbook
Grades 6-8, Video Segment

Jamie and Adam analyze examples of cereals and it is cardboard box for fats, carbohydrates, sugars, and protein.
 
Essential Nutrition
(Canadian Version)
Discovery Education Streaming, Science Techbook
Grades 6-8, 9-12, Full Video

Explores nutrition as well as forms of food the body requires for energy. Defines different types of nutrients, discusses nutrition-related illnesses, and provides suggestions on tips on how to keep healthy and eat correctly.
 
Nutrition
(Canadian Version)
Science Techbook
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, Video Segment

Depicts the ways wherein animals and plants use nutrients from food. So that you can develop and grow, humans have to have a stable nutritional intake.


APPLY

Encourage discussion before, during, after the learning. Include games and debate rebuild fun and enable students to express their tastes and preferences without judgment. Take advantage of the strategy Connect the Dots (Canadian Version) within the SOS series that will help students take into account his or her nutrition habits. Or utilize SOS strategy Myth Bustin’! (Canadian Version) to spend time playing a game about nutrition “myths” you as well as students write and then confirm or bust.
 
For individual or select few work, use our integrated science simulation, Food and Nutrition (Canadian Version), that enables students to choose menus and analyze nutrition content. Note: Given that the simulation references a more mature form of the USDA’s nutrition guidelines, it gives to be able to discuss and exactly how those guidelines are updated with an ongoing basis.