Healthy Kids

Goals:

How to have a balanced diet

How to make healthy food choices

How to make wise entertainment/activites choices

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives 

Content standard F: Personal Health

Children link eating with growth, health, strength, and energy, but they do not understand these ideas in detail. They understand connections between diet and health and that some foods are nutritionally better than others, but they do not necessarily know the reasons for these conclusions.

Personal Health:

Nutrition is essential to health. Students should understand how the body uses food and how various foods contribute to health. Recommendations for food nutrition include eating a variety of foods, eating less sugar, and eating less fat.

The following are the websites that were incorperated to make the "Healthy Kids" webquest:

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/index.html

http://www.mypyramid.gov/index.html

http://www.bam.gov/index.html