Health Education: Nutrition

Nutrition includes learning about food groups, nutrients, and beverages, increasing label literacy, understanding caloric intake and expenditure, nutritional planning, and emphasizing the role of nutrition in disease prevention.

ACTIVITIES

• Lesson Plan: Comparing and Contrasting Caloric Expenditure for Physical Activities
• Unit 2: Nutrition | Healthy Schools | CDC
• Create Your Own Healthful Snack | Health Powered Kids
• Get the Facts: Know Your Food Label | Health Powered Kids 
• Nutritional Budgeting PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical Education (pecentral.org)   

RESOURCES

• Take Charge of Your Health: A Guide for Teenagers - NIDDK (nih.gov)
• Making Nutrition Education for Teens Accurate, Comprehensive and Inclusive | PolicyLab (chop.edu)