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Disney just launched their Healthy Kids Website - talk about some fun interactive nutrition education! CLICK HERE to learn and play more!
Super Size Me lesson plans available in Educationally Enhanced (r) version. Click Here.
Criteria for an effective nutrition education curriculum. Click Here
Museum on Main Street brings rural Americans one-of-a-kind access to prestigious Smithsonian exhibitions and first-rate educational programs. Click Here
Looking for intelligent, interactive nutrition lesson
plans for all ages? Check out Nutrition
Explorations.
We've found that National
Geographic's Xpeditions offers a variety of resources
for all age groups for all types of environmental and
agricultural lesson plans.
Education
Planet - Search 100,000+ top educational sites,
lessons, supplies and more!
Agriculture
in the Classroom Home Page - Agriculture in the
Classroom web site is sponsored by the USDA Cooperative
State Research, Education, Extension Service Agriculture
in the Classroom Program, and Higher Education Programs
and is managed through a cooperative agreement with Utah
State University.
NY
Times - Daily Lesson Plans - One of FarmGirl's favorite hang out spots!
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Agriculture
Peace Corps offers variety of lesson plans Search by subjects such as agriculture, nutrition and environment and find some exciting lesson plans!is lesson, students simulate village water committees that plan, design, and build a water supply system. Village committees are provided with a water project scenario, maps, and background information.
The Great Depression - By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing evidence of the colloquial speech used by the migrants and the issues affecting their lives. Using Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941 and FSA/OWI Photographs, 1935-1945, students select photographs and use the sound recordings of voices of the migrant workers to create captions, letters, and/or songs based on these primary sources. This lesson can be used in connection with a unit on the Great Depression, and specifically on The Grapes of Wrath.
Milk - 'Got Milk?' or 'Not Milk!'? - That Is the Question!
Critically Analyzing Information about Dairy Products on the Internet
Agricultural and Environmental Lesson Plans - lesson plans, classroom projects and teaching activities for: Agriculture, Aquaculture, Forestry, Animal Science, Environment, Food Science/Culinary Arts, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Landscaping
Utah
- Agriculture in the Classroom
Michigan
department of Agriculture - Introduction to Pizza
Curriculum - Pizza Lesson Plan
Learning about Michigan Agriculture One Slice at a Time
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Composting
Urban
Ecology Waste Reduction Project - compost lesson
plans
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Food
Nutrition and Food Safety Education - resources for elementary and secondary teachers
Cooperative Lesson: Create a Food Web
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Nutrition
Nutrition and Food Safety Education - resources for elementary and secondary teachers
Teach-nology - Web Portal for educators - Nutrition Search
Nutrition
Exploration - Nutrition Lessons and Activities
Teach-nology - Web Portal for educators - Nutrition Search
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Obesity
Discovery Channel -
Students will:
1. learn how culture influences body perception;
2. examine prejudices toward obese people; and
3. examine their own feelings about their bodies.
The National Academies Press - Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance (2005)
Food and Nutrition Board (FNB)
Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP)
American Public Health Association - Toolkit for Childhood Obesity Intervention
Food advertising and Obesity - Deconstructing Ads For
Snack and Junk Food
Which Target Young Children
OutdoorEd.com - Resources for Physical Activity Programs to combat Childhood Obesity epidemic
Fast Food Nation - PDF Lesson Plan to be used in conjunction with Erik Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation.
Making changes to combat obesity ' Students will analyze the impact of the media, technology, economy, culture, and other factors on health through the use of technological resources
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Organics
Read - Write - Think - Let it Grow: An Inquiry-Based Organic Gardening Research Project
CNN - Investigate the pros and cons of eating organic food
Poison
Free Agriculture- Poison Free Gardening
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Plants
Willow
Bend Enivornmental Education Center - Uses of
Plants
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Saving the Planet
Center
for Global Food Issues - National Association
of Agricultural Educators - Saving the Planet Lesson Plans
Catlin Classroom - Campfire Stories uses art, artifacts, and primary source texts to bridge American history, geography, art appreciation, environmental conservation, and multicultural studies. The site and its lesson plans were developed in consultation with a panel of teachers.
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Soil Education
USDA - NRCS Natural Resource Conservation Service
What
is Soil Made of? - The Glacier National Park Electronic
Field Trip will take you there!
Tales
from the Underground - Chicago's Museum of Science
and Industry Web site offers a very
interesting interactive activity called Tales from the
Underground. Kids get to explore an interactive map of
Chicago neighborhoods to view the results of soil samples
that were taken to determine the
amounts of various pollutants they contain. Students are
then able to conduct their own experiments (with help
from their teacher or parent) to learn about the health
of soils where they live. The site contains a wealth of
additional activities, downloads, and lessons that culminate
in a unique learning experience that kids will enjoy.
This site is also reviewed in the February 7, 2003 NSDL
Physical Science Report.
Exploring
Soil - To identify the properties of soil
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